Double Harvest

I finally took the move to only read the experts ideas by utilizing the search function. Through this I found that homeboy Uncle Ben double harvests-meaning he first harvests the top colas and THEN places the plant under the light to allow light to be captured to the lower buds. Does anyone else have any ideas, advice and experience on this?

If your working with CFLs maybe. Not many people do this though, some think its a waste.

I don't know much about double harvesting, but I can tell you that since I've followed Uncle Ben's advice, my yield has gone from one ounce per plant to three ounces per plant.

Uncle Ben takes a ton of hits on here, often it's his lack of social graces that makes people go after him....but if you read his techniques and stay away from the daily banter, you'll do well. His focus on leaf health is key if you ask me. I barely pull any leaves from my plants now and I can see a big difference in the overall health of my plants.

That's not why people bash Ben...anyway I grow sativas, if I "double harvest", the plant in response will mess up the bud to leaf ratio horribly in attempt to gain foliage and keep levels of transpiration constant. I advise against this method. Get side lighting....

By cutting the tops and given the lowers a week or two I get about 15-20% more + makes lowers quality on par with the tops.

dr.tree said:

By cutting the tops and given the lowers a week or two I get about 15-20% more + makes lowers quality on par with the tops.

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that's right, uncle ben knows his shit. I double harvest too. I grow in coco maintaining semi low runoff and only flush for a week before the first chop (top 2/3rds) and then feed for 1 more week (twice) and then another week just water and chop the rest by 2 weeks. you would be surprised what you can get in 2 weeks with a couple feeds and co2, big difference in yield, at least for me and the strain i'm using.

Just completed. 50-60% response in size in a week and half after initial harvest.

Ya people who harvest the the whole plan at since are losing a lot

if you let your leaves grow and dont pluck them then i would imagine double harvesting would be kinda needed because all those leaves are blocking light from bud sites and if you cut everything that is ready and get light to the covered buds then i can totally see you benefiting from it.
dont know why people are against it lol..

double harvesting is great, I used the technique this summer because one plant I had was just too fat, and started to get a few bud rot spots. I cut out the spots, cut off the big top buds, and left the bottom of the plant for two extra weeks, and those got to fatten up and got some really nice weather!

Also, the plant didn't have any wierd response to this , just kept ripening and stuff, and the bottom half of the plant showed purple color , i think due to the cold nights that it got to make it to.

double harvesting would only be necessary if much of the lower plant grew in shade to begin with
if the right training methods are employed and or bottom lighting is used it would never be necessary

a true double harvest, is when you rejuvenate (reveg) the plant, and get a second full harvest even a third lol

I've tried a lot of different ways, this is just what's working good for me.

nova1992 said:

if you let your leaves grow and dont pluck them then i would imagine double harvesting would be kinda needed because all those leaves are blocking light from bud sites and if you cut everything that is ready and get light to the covered buds then i can totally see you benefiting from it.
dont know why people are against it lol..

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It's been proven by multiple studies that a full sun plant like MJ lets almost 85% of light pass through. They don;t block anything and people are against pulling off the leaves because they are what fuels bud production.

I've tried pruning, I've tried defoliation. They are a bunch of bunk. The best yields I ever get is because I keep my plants healthy and fully fucking leaved the whole way through.

manifest said:

I finally took the move to only read the experts ideas by utilizing the search function. Through this I found that homeboy Uncle Ben double harvests-meaning he first harvests the top colas and THEN places the plant under the light to allow light to be captured to the lower buds.

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Pretty much got the gist down but it's not exposure to buds that produces yo stuff, it's exposure to lower leaves and with all the finger pluckin' and bloom food abuse goin' on around these here parts, this homey understands most can't "pull" this tweak off. I double harvest indoors or out, doesn't matter. It's just common sense to pull the fruit when it's at its premium whether it be an apple, avocado, key lime, or cannabis. It adds up as you've probably seen in my pix of second harvests.

Also, Mel Frank presented lab studies reflecting that THC content can be at higher levels at the bottom than "da big colas" at the top contrary to popular forum thought.

In the following photo, the point where I cut is exactly where the transition from a fat cola to single nuggets occurred.



Good luck

You mean butchering your plants by pulling off the very unit that produces bud. That makes a lot of sense.

skunkd0c said:

double harvesting would only be necessary if much of the lower plant grew in shade to begin with
if the right training methods are employed and or bottom lighting is used it would never be necessary

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Wrong. It's not an issue of "necessary". It's an issue of finessing your garden and using botanical common sense.

Since your plants have no lower leaves left upon harvest, I'd expect this kind of spin and sideways anger out of you. Sour grapes?

UB

What's funny is before I came here on this forum I found defoliation out the hard way. Or I guess you could say just from observation. I'm telling you guys right now leave the leafs on your plant it thank you with yield.

I haven't tried double harvest before, but due to my limited growing space I think it might work for me. However, there's one thing that doesn't fit.. what about flushing the plant?
Usually I would feed the plant nothing but water for the last week before harvesting it.

Any thoughts on this?

Seriously?
No.....

I just "strip" off all lower branches and the first 2-5 buds per branch and its all chunky! no need to wait on pop corn, rip that shit off early (day 10-17) flower and it will all go to the top! its need if you in CAlI because clubs wont ever look if they see popcorn

flippinkeysmakinGs said:

I just "strip" off all lower branches and the first 2-5 buds per branch and its all chunky! no need to wait on pop corn, rip that shit off early (day 10-17) flower and it will all go to the top! its need if you in CAlI because clubs wont ever look if they see popcorn

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Cali, Vermont?