Re-Vegging after Harvest? Any Experience?

Jarhead · Oct 6, 2009

I have grown the last of my feminized Northern Lights/Skunk from G-13 seeds through Attitude seed bank. Awesome smoke! I am trying to re-veg the strain so I don't have to buy more. I don't have the room to grow a mother plant as I can only grow 2 plants at a time and don't have the room to grow in both 24/00 and 12/12. So far from the research I've done, it is possible to do this. I am into the 12th day with 24/00 lighting trying to get them growing in veg stage. I took the tops from the lower branches with very small buds on them and I left a couple of leaf nodes to grow from. At this point, the center of the buds are nice and green, but outer leaves have turned a light green. They have roots growing already, but they still seem to be in flower stage. I don't see any new leaf growth yet. I will post a pic or 2 in a day or 2 so you can see them. How long will this process take? Any input for me? Thanks in advance.

Motorbreath · Oct 6, 2009

I'm curious to hear your results...I've heard that it is possible to harvest two times off of a plant, but any more than that is a waste of effort, as the yeild is minimal, and you can't expect the second harvest to be as large as the first. Keep us posted.

XxNinjaxX · Oct 6, 2009

You should have re-vegged the main plant, and taken clones once it had been done. Would have been much easier. But wat u r doing will also work. U r looking at about 6 weeks work ahead of u. Pump them with Nitrogen, that should help out a bit.
Peace :joint:

Green Cross · Oct 6, 2009

Jarhead said:
I have grown the last of my feminized Northern Lights/Skunk from G-13 seeds through Attitude seed bank. Awesome smoke! I am trying to re-veg the strain so I don't have to buy more. I don't have the room to grow a mother plant as I can only grow 2 plants at a time and don't have the room to grow in both 24/24 and 12/12. So far from the research I've done, it is possible to do this. I am into the 12th day with 24/24 lighting trying to get them growing in veg stage. I took the tops from the lower branches with very small buds on them and I left a couple of leaf nodes to grow from. At this point, the center of the buds are nice and green, but outer leaves have turned a light green. They have roots growing already, but they still seem to be in flower stage. I don't see any new leaf growth yet. I will post a pic or 2 in a day or 2 so you can see them. How long will this process take? Any input for me? Thanks in advance.

I've seen clones - taken in flower - take as many as 6 weeks to put out new growth. First the bud sites die - and this causes lots of new branching to occur, when the plant goes bag into veg.

I'd say the success rate is around 50%, but the big drawback is that the amount of stress a revenged mother, or clones, goes through in the process, causes genetic degradation, especially if you make a habit of re-vegging....

It's best to take clones from clones from clones, in veg, so that you're making a genetic copy of a healthy plant, rather than one that's stressed.

Genetic degradation can result in decreased yield, potency, etc. :peace:

MeisterYo · Oct 6, 2009

I haven't flowered and revegged yet, but will try it soon. But I have heard about people keeping the same plant for 6 years bringing it in and out of the house, not standard practice I'm sure.

growone · Oct 6, 2009

reveg can preserve a keeper femme - here's my experience - popped clone off a revegged nl#5

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/227742-nl-5-reveg-journal.html

Jarhead · Oct 6, 2009

Green Cross said:
I've seen clones - taken in flower - take as many as 6 weeks to put out new growth. First the bud sites die - and this causes lots of new branching to occur, when the plant goes bag into veg.

I'd say the success rate is around 50%, but the big drawback is that the amount of stress a revenged mother, or clones, goes through in the process, causes genetic degradation, especially if you make a habit of re-vegging....

It's best to take clones from clones from clones, in veg, so that you're making a genetic copy of a healthy plant, rather than one that's stressed.

Genetic degradation can result in decreased yield, potency, etc.

MeisterYo said:
I haven't flowered and revegged yet, but will try it soon. But I have heard about people keeping the same plant for 6 years bringing it in and out of the house, not standard practice I'm sure.

growone said:
reveg can preserve a keeper femme - here's my experience - popped clone off a revegged nl#5

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/227742-nl-5-reveg-journal.html

Great input folks, thanks. And your grow journal is awesome "growone". Here is part of the research I found that may also answer some questions. The only part I couldn't find was the time it takes to re-veg. Your answers of 6 weeks seems to be what I was looking for. Next time, I will try starting the cuttings in a separate "grow box" with a couple cfl's so I can have them ready to go after I harvest (fingers crossed). This link is good reading for those who want to try re-vegging too.
http://www.420magazine.com/forums/seeds-clones-strains/56864-what-flowering-clone.html
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