Want to mother them.

[poking smot]

tomorrow is harvest day and this is my first harvest with wanting to keep the plants as mothers. how do i go along doing this? i tried a search but found zero. i had been given the plants resently by a friend 3 weeks before harvest and i want to keep them for cloning because one is sour bubble and one pinnaple grapefruit and i love these buds. PLEASE HELP. ill post some pics tomorrow. Oh and they are in coco thats why i posted in here.

 

[vaprpig]

You could take some clones and grow them into mothers. That way you'd have nice bushy mommas vs. tall lanky ones. Although I'm not sure if there would be any problem taking the clones so late in flower.

 

[PharmaCan]

If you can find some branches on the plants that are suitable for cutting as clones, that will probably be your best bet. Put the cuttings under 24/0 or 18/6 (or whatever veg lighting you prefer). They will grow roots, then, as soon as they have roots, start to reveg. Revegging is a metamorphosis the plant goes through that takes about 2-3 weeks. Whether the new plants grow bushy or lanky or whatever will depend on how you grow and manicure them.

You can also try to reveg the original plants by leaving as much foliage on them as you can then putting them on a veg light cycle. I've never tried to reveg a harvested plant, but, from what I have read, the process has limited success.

PC

 

[raygun]

Hey Poking with those gals just do as I stated in the other thread. Harvest 2/3 to 3/4ths of the plant leaving as many little buds and large leaves as possible on the lower portion of the plant. Remember the one I had in my black box that had little popcorn buds on it that one has started to reveg but its been about a month since the harvest of it. I have had 100% sucess with this technique. Just DO NOT OVER WATER but in coco its a bit hard to so just go light on the nutes and leave them in 18+ hours of light to get them reveggin. Some people say to shock it out of flowing by hitting it with a day or two fo 24 hours of light. I have not been able to compair the tech with a side by side comparison so could not tell you if that does indeed help quicken the reveg of the plant.

The Sourbubble that you are going to harvest is a cross that we called heatherb. The lineage of it is sourbubble x petrol then back crossed to the sourbubble orig. mom. It should be nice and sticky with a strong herb smell by now. And I mean like sage brush/rosemary herb smell. You I think you might also have another one from that seed bunch that we called cucumber cush(not to be confused with "the kushes") as it smells like fresh cut cucumber/pickles to me with a mentholy flavor. It also has a very kush like growth and bud structure hence the name.

You did get a sourbubble orig clone as well that was the one in the smallest cup it should be marked I believe. That one will take a month or two to get large enough for you to flower as it is a very slow grower but is done in like 55 days in flower.

The other 2 pineapple grapefruits that are vegging and the one you are going to harvest is a cross done by Wallyduck. They are 2 different plants but from the same initall cross and seed bag. You can look in his forum for some more limited info. Not much info on this one there but don't hesitate to ask any questions about it. I still have yet to decide if I will get rid of one of them as you have my 2nd run with that pheno in flower right now. I hope it performed well for you and got large resinous buds.

I forgot what else you have but most all of them are done around 60 days flowering give or take 5 days from what I found. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Safe Growing
~raygun~

 

[Kenny Lingus]

DO A SEARCH ON:

"Revegging", re-veg, "re-juvenate", "rejuvenation", or similar words.


Basically you keep a few of the lower buds and branches and leaves on the plants. Cut of maybe 1/5 of the bottom roots and replace with fresh medium. Start giving grow-fertilizer (High in nitrogen), and put the plants/shrubs back under a 24/0 (or 20/4) daylight cycle, with preferably a strong light source (MH/High Power Fluoros). Also giving the plants a little seaweed extract or root/veg booster with trace elements in the beginning of the process may help. (Be careful not to have to much moisture in the air as the remaining buds will brown out and et moldy fast)

If the process is successful you should see new growth from the old buds within 3-6 weeks. These new shoots will pop out like crazy and won't have regular cannabis leafs to begin with. It is important that you let the plants grow long enough to produce normal leafs and branches before you clone it again, or it may never recover from the stress and could end up sickly and low yielding.

 

[raygun]

Yo Poking where are those picts? How did the harvest go? Hope you ended up with atleast 4oz.

 

[The Vermonster]

Sounds good......im harvesting next week.....any pics to show???

 

[In Vino Veritas]

I find it hard to root clones taken from plants at the end of their flowering phase, shit even at 2 weeks I go from 99% sucess to 40-50%.. I would re-veg. Patience though, you won't be using her again till another crop or two..