Live Stoner Chat Killing your Auto at harvest....

[Rapha El]

Cannabis Ruderalis overwinters in seed form... meaning it just grows the next plant since it originates in central asia and never had to contend with harsh winter conditions. You can't control it's lifecycle and therefore not re-veg it.

You spent so much time here theorizing but 15 minutes on google would have told you that.

 

[cryptolab]

Cannabis Ruderalis overwinters in seed form... meaning it just grows the next plant since it originates in central asia and never had to contend with harsh winter conditions. You can't control it's lifecycle and therefore not re-veg it.

You spent so much time here theorizing but 15 minutes on google would have told you that.

Hey Druid,

Thanks for that valuable contribution.

I have some questions for you:

(1) What kills Ruderalis during the autumn ?
(a) the cold weather ?
(b) the plant is programmed to 'self-destruction' after flowering ?

(2) Have Indica and/or Sativa plants been known to survive multiple
winters outdoors ? (eg 3 winters)
(a) no, it's never happened and it never could happen.
(b) no, I asked google, google said no.
(c) yes, it's been reported often, particularly in tropical areas.

(3) How are Ruderalis mother plants kept alive ?
(a) they are kept in suspended animation.
(b) they are kept under 4 hours of light per day, to slow maturation.
(c) 'I don't know', I asked google, and google said 'I don't know'.
(d) other (please specify)

Thanks for your help

cryptolab

 

[MaxPowerGrows]

Hi friend, I have re-vegged multiple photoperiod plants by not killing at harvest, but never tried with an auto, however, what I have done personally and have growing right now, are autoflower clones, and what I can say from trying it more then once, is that I can not succeed it taking clones off of an autoflower plant whom itself was a clone,. They take root but never develop any growth and if they do bud, it's just hair, even if I take a clone of a clone and root it and try to keep it alive in my clone rooting bucket (I keep photos alive in this bucket for as long as I want, theoretically a rooted photo clone can live is whole life cycle in the rooting bucket. Or kept alive indefinitely, well I can't seem to keep auto flower clones alive indefinitely.

 

[MaxPowerGrows]

@gbd you have any insights on this members question buddy?

 

[Archaic]

There are literally thousands of weeds on the farm that grow, seed out, and die every year. Ragweed, goatweed, thistles, etc. do it all the time and there is nothing unprecedented about it. Even during a Texas winter where we never get below freezing the cycle is unchanged.

I'm not sure why we are trying to reinvent the wheel here. Even if, IF - you could reveg an auto, it would never be as commercially viable as a clone and go commercial photoperiod set up or a perpetual harvest with a new monthly crop of autoflowers. Buy one pack of regular seeds, pollinate one plant per year, harvest a 100+ seeds, problem solved. You are an answer seeking a question that nobody is asking.

 

[gbd]

Cannabis is an annual plant, one and done unless you clone or reveg. I've heard of strains such as flo giving multiple harvests per year, but without cloning it would still die off. I imagine the reunion strain stays alive due to having so much light available, causing it to reveg naturally. I've kept autos alive much longer than I should have and the buds just degrade, seemingly eating themselves from the inside of the flowers and turning them into worthless mush more or less. I would love to see your proper experiment done where you gently harvest and leave them to theoretically reveg. Keep me posted.

 

[Simplicio]

Hi there Denizens,

In the past, i've basically killed my auto cannabis plants
at the point of harvesting them. But actually, perhaps that's
not necessary. Perhaps i could harvest the flowers, leave the
leaves in tact... and allow the plant to live beyond the harvest.

With other plants, like grape vines, for example. The root stock
determines the productivity of the plant during it's fruiting period.
A small root stock, yields small bunches of grapes and smaller
sized grapes. Conversely, a larger root stock, yields larger bunches
of grapes with larger grapes. The productivity of the plant is related
to the size and development of it's root system.

So maybe killing the plant at harvest time, isn't such a good idea.
Maybe it would be a better idea to leave the plant alone. So it
can develop it's root system and generate greater productivity
the next time around.

Have any of you done that ? If so what happens ?
In particular, does it flower perpetually ?
It's an auto-flowering plant, right ?
Does it go into a vegetative phase ?
If so, why didn't it do that the first time around ?
(It's not photo-sensitive).
How many years would an auto flowering plant live ?

I'd love to hear from those that are experienced and/or
knowledgeable in these questions.

Have a nice day

cryptoLab

Not sure this applies directly, but I almost always harvest my autos in stages, maybe 3 or 4 weeks from start to finish.
Not doing an unnecessary flush allows this.
The yield won't be a whole lot bigger, but the exposed popcorns and vegetation will green and fatten a bit.

 

[massgrass]

an annual comes back every year ? autoflowering cannabis is a diplodocus (sp?) meaning it lives once,when its dead its dead.
i hope i read that somewhere and it wasnt just a dream.

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[MaxPowerGrows]

I wonder how Ruderalis behaves naturally.
Is it an annual plant ?
I gather it survives the harsh russian winters.
Does it do this as a seed ?
Does it go into a winter dormancy like other hardy over-wintering plants ?
Certainly, these are interesting questions.

The plant would start to grow buds, get pollinated, grow seeds, start dying and dropping its seed filled buds, then plants dies completely and drops remaining seeded buds, seeded buds settle into the soil, it snows, come spring snow melts, seeds germinate inside the remaining bud in the soil, or if the bud is rotted away I guess the seeds germinate right in the ground. But the plant itself surely couldn't survive the winter, right? Trying to keep an autoflower alive indefinitely doesn't work if you are doing it by taking cuttings., that much I know.

 

[puggle6]

I have had autos just up ad die one branch at a time, at late harvest many may not see this happen?

Perhaps the Rudi gene has branches of buds die off one by one to spread itself out more?

I have had at least 4 plants self destruct one branch at a time (ie: fully dry out and die before bulk of plant)

nfi if useful observations?


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