Revegging after harvest

[Rusty Trichome]

Since I've only got one veg room, I do my re-vegging under 18/6. (400w MH) Same with my clones and seedlings.
I don't know if it's better or not, but it works for me.

I have recently started up-potting the day of harvest and re-veg.
When setting-up my 3 gallon pots, I line the bottom with no more than 1" of rocks, then a layer of that shade cloth (Shade cloth remnants) cut to size, to cover the rocks, then add the soil and plant. I use the shade cloth so I don't have to spend time picking rocks out of the bottom of the plant, and, so no soil will sift thru the rocks creating a path to the bottom of the pot. (keeps soil and roots from any standing water in the bottom of the pot)

I start 'em flowering in the 3 gallon pots till finished, with a really good final flush about 3 or 4 days before harvest. (letting soil dry out a bit) Then I leave the usual ammounts of foliage for re-veg.
Then I set-up a 5 gallon pot with the rocks and shade cloth, then I add fresh soil.

Once the 5 gal pot is ready, I slide the plant out of the 3 gallon pot, and peel the shade cloth from the bottom of the rootball. (which is full of fine roots, but no tap root gets thru) I tap the rootball lightly to remove a little of the old soil, and transplant into the 5 gal. pot. Quick and easy.
I put it in the 5 gallon pot, and fill with more fresh soil. Then into the veg room they go. As the soil I use is pretty hot, I haven't needed to nute, for the first couple of weeks. Gets the roots looking for nutes in the fresh soil.

Last time doing this, I didn't find a hermie, and am almost bummed about it. Because I have already seen the ladies all the way thru harvest the first time, I know they are a stable strain, and would love to see a stress flower or two for breeding femmed seeds. I do have the option of feeding one of the re-veggies some acetylsalicylic acid, tho. (uncoated aspirin - stresses female plant into sending out nanners...not for beginners)

Wow...Sorry. Didn't mean to write a dissertation. Guess I should have started another thread.

[CultureCherryPopper]

I do believe I have a few seeds forming, bt it's still just a guess at this point. Meanwhile I have to run and get some dolomite lime to take care of a calcium deficiency that seems to be occuring with the revegging indica.

[CultureCherryPopper]

I rarely ask questions so I hope I'll get a response, and since it's pertaining to my revegging indica, I thought I'd keep it in here. My plant has plenty of new shoots, but a lot of the tips of new growth are yellowed, and a lot of the older leaves are showing either a calcium or magnesium deficiency, or both. It's been flushed in the past month so I don't think it's a lockout. So, I figure that crushing up some lawn limestone and dissolving it in my weak nutrient solution might help. But now I'm thinking, is the plant going to be able uptake the Mg and Ca from just crushed limestone? Also, a lot of the growths are twisted and weird-like; does this indicate a completely different problem?

[Rusty Trichome]

Dread: How's your doing?

CCP: Do you know the ph of your run-off water? How well did you flush? After already going thru a season of ferts, salts can build-up in the soil and affect the re-grow. After flush, did you go back to giving her the veg nutes?
I get weird leaves at first, too. Am guessing it's the plant going "WTF?". Once it adjusts, you should see improvement and new growth. (week or two) A week or two after that, ready for clones or re-flower.
Keep in mind, too...there's already shit-loads of roots, and the longer you re-veg her the more rootbound it'll get, as she nears harvest.

[CultureCherryPopper]

The leaves are growing wrinkled or curled over or folded, so I'm thinking maybe she's rootbound. I'll repot her and flush her again, see if that helps. I'd do it today but I already watered her.

[stinkyattic]

Wrinkled leaves is a sign that the soil pH may be too high. You have to check and possibly fix that. Also, you can foliar feed at any time.

Re-vegging is a GREAT time to give your plants SuperThrive. I like to leave ming under 24/0 VERY blue flourescent light (best success was an Ott Light) and give superthrive at a heavy dose (4 drops per gallon) ONCE early in the re-veg.

[keeko]

I have revegged this plant and was thinking of making her my new mother plant. Instead of going to a bigger pot size(im in 2 or 3 gallon now) could I trim about 1/3 of the roots and replant in the same size grow bag with fresh soil with little stress?

[Hennessy1414]

Wrinkled leaves is a sign that the soil pH may be too high. You have to check and possibly fix that. Also, you can foliar feed at any time.

even when your plant is 3 weeks flowering? :rastasmoke:

[Rusty Trichome]

I have revegged this plant and was thinking of making her my new mother plant. Instead of going to a bigger pot size(im in 2 or 3 gallon now) could I trim about 1/3 of the roots and replant in the same size grow bag with fresh soil with little stress?

The more careful you are with the roots, the lower the stress. In other words, making a clean cut is less stressful than just ripping the roots apart. Never grown in bags, but have heard root bruising/breaking can happen during transplant, due to the shifting soils, but Psycho4Bud could likely offer more on this, since I'm pretty sure he grows in bags.
I do a good flush before transplant/root trimming to remove built-up salt and to keep ph in check, but allow to dry-out before transplant. This will keep the rootball somewhat intact for the move.

[stinkyattic]

even when your plant is 3 weeks flowering?

Yes. Obviously, later when you have significant bud formation, you'll want to avoid foliar sprays of any sort getting on the buds themselves but since this is a thread about re-vegging we weren't talking about a flowering plant...