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I'm with you on that logic, superusa.
Doesn't anybody here think it is just faster to cut a clone off of the flowering plant and reveg that? I do it with no problems and it sure doesn't take 45 days.
No, I don't think it is faster.
If you're talking about taking a cutting in early flower, that's one thing. Of course it will re-veg 'faster', since it is not as far into flowering.
But that is not typically a reveg situation. If you're taking a cut in early flower, you've already identified traits that have lead you to believe it is a mom candidate.
A reveg scenario usually occurs in late flower or at harvest. Usually for me it is a seed run with a pheno that surprised me. At that point, it is no faster to take a cutting. The whole plant is in the same flowering stage, and it's all going to take all of it the same amount of time to metabolize those flowering hormones.
By taking a clone then, you're still facing the same reveg time, plus rooting time. And your cutting may fail, leaving you without the genes anyway.
Not to mention, you'd be cloning away a flowering limb... at harvest.
Basically, the two techniques aren't necessarily interchangeable. You're either in a reveg situation, or a clloning situation, rarely are you in both.
I take clones 6+ weeks into bloom and I have no problems. And it doesn't take very long to reveg them at all. I would bet that I could cut a flowering clone, reveg it, and grow it to the same size or larger than a whole plant in the same amount of time. From my experience smaller cuttings reveg alot faster than a whole plant. So while some people are revegging a plant for 45 days, i would rather cut a clone, reveg it in 2 weeks, and then veg it for 30 days...check my RDWC in the hydro section.
Also from my experience...if you want to reveg a clone (even onbe late into flower) there are 2 keys..first is to root it under low light so that it roots quickly. second is to pound it with light once it is rooted. I drop the lights down right on top of the rooted clone (and low humitidy) and i have had pretty good success with bringing them back into veg in quick time.
i bet it would reveg faster using a bubble cloner but im not sure b/c i just made a bubble cloner and no need to take a cutting from a flowering girl right now.
Med420-
Awesome!! One of the best threads around!!
After reading through, I was wondering what would happen if you didn't trim the rootball back? Just partially harvested and switched back to 20/4. Does the plant need new root growth to support new leaf growth?
Once again.....great thread!!
Bh
I think u run the risk of "root rot" if u dont trim some back....plus u should transplant anyway to get them into a new vegetative mix. I'm sure u could pull it off otherwise, but it wont be ideal.
I'd like to see the pictures of your 6 week buds going back into full veg in 2 weeks. Revegging is not when the clones have roots. Revegging is when they have gone from single bladed leaves back to full leaves and producing new branches.
That's not happening in two weeks, period. You're not undoing six weeks of flowering hormones in 1/3 the time.
Your plants aren't actually back in full veg in two weeks. They do it over the course of the whole 45 days you described. Which, as was mentioned, is typical.
You're firmly rooted in two weeks, and over the course of the total 45 days you mentioned, it revegs.
It is no faster. If you were to put a whole plant, not just clones, under veg lighting for 45 days, it would reveg in the same amount of time.
Clones reveg no faster than a whole plant does.
It may be posted in here somewhere, forgive my laziness if it is. But, once re-vegged, will the bud in the 2nd flower cycle be less potent that the first harvest?
Nobody has asked this yet- What is the size potential?
For example; I flowered a plant outside in the winter/spring and it only grew 6 inches tall, it is now revegging. Could it now grow to be 6 feet tall???