New Grower Possible stupid question alert!?

[Kaiju]

After the flower cycle of 8-14 weeks or whatever.

Has anybody ever switched back into Veg light cycle to see what happens?

Im curious to if the plant would continue to veg or if it would just hermy it or something

(Of course done without an interrupted dark cycle)

 

[CGR]

Auto's have there own clock and when it runs out ..:....she's done at lease that's how it's suppose to be.....but i love to explore the realm of possibility....:X's Evil Laugh x:.....at one time people thought the world was flat!?......:No:what would they say today

 

[Kaiju]

I actually meant photo period plants more than autos as autos flower with any light cycle where as you could trick a photo to go back into veg mode theoretically?

 

[S_a_H]

I actually meant photo period plants more than autos as autos flower with any light cycle where as you could trick a photo to go back into veg mode theoretically?

Sure no problem that is exactly what happens to people who grow outdoors and get so excited about it that they plant outside in March...lol they veg for a week or two and then go into flower and as the days get longer and longer they go back into veg and then as the days grow short they go back into flower.

Next time you run a photo indoors leave a small branch at the bottom... flower like normal and when you harvest leave the bottom branch. Flush with some good clean PH'd water put in your veg room and let dry out good and then rewater with some light veg nutes let it dry good again and you should see some new growth in about 1-3 weeks depending on how much sat you have genetics. I have also done this and used a drywall saw to cut the center plant out leaving a 2-3 inch ring in the flower pot and putting the reveg back in new soil to encourage new root growth which in turn helps any new growth develop.

You can get a whole new plant in the reveg because a whole new group of recessive genes to come out as the plant is older.

 

[Kaiju]

So in a sense you could "De-Bud" a plant but leaving as many leaves on as possible for it to re-veg itself creating a bigger yield next time round as the plant would have double the veg time?

 

[wg]

I understand what you're asking but in essence no that's not going to work.. why not just let a photo veg twice as long then flip it? Why flip it, let it bud, take the buds off, flip it back and try to get it to reveg? That's just a waste of bud.. you'd have to flip it back before the buds were fully grown otherwise you'd have to take the entire branch to reveg.

What SaH is talking about is called revegging.. there's a video of some one doing it with an autoflower somewhere.. but it's much easier with photos. Don't remove all the buds, because that's where new vegetative growth will come from.. but leave those little scraggly branches down the bottom and about 4" above those and trim away all dead foliage, leave the buds, and then do as SaH said and flush with good clean pH'd water, let it dry out (on a veg schedule, 18/6+, for revegging 20/4 is better) then water it with some veg nutes and keep it on that schedule. Other things help as well, like a blue spectrum light (MH, 5000-6500k flourous & T5s, etc). Light distance matters as well, try to keep the light 24" or higher from the top of the "reveg" plant.

I've revegged quite a few plants before I had a reliable method of taking clones. It takes as long as rooting a clone and the growth is just as off and on as a clone, IME.

 

[N.W.]

Im with WG 100%... I cant really see the point of it, if you want a bigger plant just veg longer and take clones.... I've tried re-vegging and for me cloning is way faster...
Same as i've never kept a mother plant clone from a clone is all i ever did.... But i like to keep things simple....lol...:smokebuds:

 

[Kaiju]

loool no i meant for outdoor grows - like you could strip the tree of its bud but leave the tree carcus if you will with as many fan leaves as possible and it will be a oak tree next year :dance: