Sick plants, revert to veg or ride it out

[hogwild]

When you encounter sick plants are you more inclined to ride them out through flower and take whats given to you or re veg if they are special to you? ive been throwing the underdeveloped outdoors to do what they will... just wondering if re-vegging is even worth it potency wise, as i am tight on space i dont want stunted plants taking up precious space when i could just as well throw them outside and wait for september. Whats your take on this?

 

[BagseedSamurai]

I ride it.

 

[hogwild]

i dont know i think this time im throwing them outside to do their business, fuse blew and the blowers / fans when out and not the lights.

 

[hogwild]

...lights are on a different circuit dammit!

 

[Guest]

how far into flower are they? take a clone and let her flower.

 

[hogwild]

2 weeks into flower thank god it wasnt like the 6th week id be very mad. Its ok i threw the girls outside and ive been foliar feeding with mild strength rhizotonic ( algae) to help promote root growth, hopefully they will continue to bud outside im not holding my breath though.

 

[weed_snob]

ride it out, in the time it takes to reveg you can get clones rooted. Side note, the plants will continue to flower this time of year, watch out for frosts though.

 

[bergerbuddy]

IF its special... take some cuts off it... toss it outside...

Peace..

 

[hogwild]

threw them outside and took a few more fresh cuttings to put in the aerocloner, i should have about 10 with a solid enough root mass to plant within 2 days, i have some cuts in there from a few weeks ago when the plants werent destroyed. They look like hell but they are continuing to bud and it costs me zero for electricity. Im pretty bummed out considering i vegged them out for months all for nothing really. Its ok im grateful to have gotten a hold of this strain in the first place, cush is a really wonderful strain. It's hard for me to maintain a positive outlook at this point though.... its been a shitty week... ordered seeds from BC bud online and they sent me an empty envelope w/ no seeds in it. It was supposed to be blue buddah... and it was supposed to come on time but i guess thats just the nature of the illegal seed trading business.
considering i smoke about 2 oz / month and it costs around 1200$ to smoke that and i was hoping to eliminate that cost and balance it out with my growing costs, after months of electricity bills and no buds this little mishap could cost me bigtime.

On another note i just found out my lavender plant is female and i just started about 20 more seedlings of bagseed to get something going. not much to look forward to and im not about to throw 1 small plant under a 1000 watt sunmaster such a waste of power no buds anywhere in sight and none in foresight either... bummed out man!

 

[hogwild]

well heres an update if anyone is interested, the plants look like hell but it looks like ill be getting some buds regardless.... they have about another week to go before the chop, i prefer a cerebral high.
heres a shot from the night before:

and a few shots from today.....

the buds are inherently very small due to the amount of stress on the plant...

heres a top shot, this should be WAY fatter

thats all for now, keep a lookout for my 1.4kw green crack DWC Scrog soon....

 

[Truth]

looks like you have more than two weeks to go, I would just let them fully flower out and reveg them for clones. but even when the buds are stunted from bad health, that also increases flowering times.

 

[hogwild]

yeah a normally 35 day strain is already going on 41 days and its still a ways away, the burnt foliage definately slowed these ladies down bigtime. I only have about 2 weeks left of less than 14 hours daylight so hopefully they will finish up in time... i am planning on harvesting about 3/4 of the buds and leaving a good amount of bottom branches to veg these out, by june they should be much larger and in better health. I've already got a ton of clones actually, luckily i took about 40 before they burnt and put them in the aero.

 

[hogwild]

woops i must have been misinformed this green crack pheno is a 50-55 day strain, the plants are at day 41 in flower, ill probably harvest one of them on friday of next week, its looking more ready than the rest, i think its because it got the most love out of them all, i admit i did play favorites this time.
I'm surprised the plants did considerably well given the circumstances, their yield is greatly diminished and the flavor probably wont be as great either as it would have if the plants were not stressed.
Here is a shot a day or two after the heat destroyed, food deprived plants were thrown outside:

heres a shot a day or two ago from a somewhat similar angle




and a shot or 2 of this years gene pool