got a question that ive never heard an answer to

i have a question.. i think i know what the answer is but ive never heard anyone ask or answer it so he it is.. during the flowering stage, can u just pick the buds off the the plant and if u do that will the plant keep producing new buds?

Yes, you can and yes, it will.

In fact, many impatient growers like to get a treat of their plant before harvesting time is even close, they just let the bud dry up a bit and then puff it.

You could harvest all the buds before they're done (although I wouldn't see how that's useful) and the plant would grow new buds.

You might be interested in a method called "revegging". You chop the plant down, leaving some 10cm of the stem shooting out of the soil/medium. You also leave 2-3 side branches with 2-3 leaves and a bud on each. The plant will take 2-3 weeks to start growing back out of those 2-3 side branches...

The moral of this method is: Cannabis (and its flowers) can grow back anywhere, anytime as long as it has the proper conditions.

just curious doc, do u have any lit to back this up or just experience?

just cuz you pic off one budd doesnt make the rest of them stop growing... the bud branch is just gone so no budds will grow were you take that one from... not unless you veg it out again after harvest and re flower...

I've only read about revegging on the IC Mag forum. I've never tried this, because of the long wait (2-3weeks at least) for it to start growing again.

Here's some threads on it:

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=102269&highlight=revegging
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=81393&highlight=revegging
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=99016&highlight=revegging

Doctor Cannabis said:

I've only read about revegging on the IC Mag forum. I've never tried this, because of the long wait (2-3weeks at least) for it to start growing again.

Here's some threads on it:

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=102269&highlight=revegging
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=81393&highlight=revegging
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=99016&highlight=revegging

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The Flowering cycle is triggered by hormones that are produced in the plant when it's light cycle is shortened to at 12 hours a day or less. Once this has occured, the plant will do everything in it's power to put out seed before the approaching winter (diminishing daylight cycle indicates cold weather and death are coming!). this process ensures survival of the species. It is possiblr to re veg after a harvest, and in fact in places where the climate doesn't kill the plant in nature they will re veg, but you can't get a continual harvest going from one plant, and it sounded like that is what you were asking about. For example, to pick buds as they ripen and let the plant just keep producing more bud. The flowering is a staged process that the plant will run through once to completion, and then either die, or be forced back into a vegitative state. This is extremely taxing to the plant, however, which is why most growers take cuttings and keep mothers.