Take Clones VS Flowering mothers and revegging

[LetTimmySmoke]

Hey guys i have a dilemna at hand. ive been trying to find a good mother and havent found keepers yet. currently running 3 different strains but got more coming soon. i grow from seed, take clones when they are big enogh, then flower.

the problem is...i find it hard to "cull" my non keeper clones that i have taken, so i end up flowering them again sometimes. i keep thinking "well maybe i could grow it better" also sometimes a male clone sneaks his way into my garden and messes things up.

so next time, i kind of want to NOT take clones.

just flower all 10 of my sour diesel, then just reveg the nicest one.

what are the disadvantages to this? im not in any big rush, so revegging seems like the best option. tired of wasting rockwool cubes.

 

[Snype]

You can do it that way with nice results but it'll just take the plant more time to grow new shoots out of the buds. You'll have a lot of branches too if you do it that way but if you wait deep into flowing with most indicas, it could take about a month to see new growth.

 

[LetTimmySmoke]

hmm about a month of growth? when i harvest i leave the branches and stems right? just snip the buds off...and leave all the fan leaves right? i have never revegged before. i dont want to have branch crowding so maybe i should get rid of some branches?

the plant would be getting revegged so that i could take clones from it...it will become my mother. or maybe i could just flower again i heard that it produces better buds the second time.

 

[Snype]

hmm about a month of growth? when i harvest i leave the branches and stems right? just snip the buds off...and leave all the fan leaves right? i have never revegged before.

You'll have to leave some leaves and a few of the bottom buds to be safe. About 3 weeks to a month after you put them back into the Vegatative stage, you'll see a bunch of new growth coming out of the buds in the VEG stage. It takes a while but it'll come back. It'll look like nothing is happening for a long time and then you'll see new shoots coming out of the buds! You could clone one of the small buds if you wanted too and get the same result. I just did that with my Super Silver Sour Diesel Haze's and I've been using this method since 1993.

 

[LetTimmySmoke]

kind of just like an apple tree? i have apple and cherry trees and when all the fruit falls off its just a bare bones stick tree, then it magically starts growing leaves for another cycle. but it takes many months.

 

[Snype]

I don't grow apples, I only grow cannabis but I can take some pics tonight of my William's Wonders. They just started growing new shoots out of the buds this week after about a month. I left a lot of buds on the plant too.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

yea i hear you sometimes its hard to kill off them weak ones when they all look so damn good in veg....ran my fire og kushess that i was gonna toss a second time..glad i did. definately did better second round, but still showing self pollination in some phenos so gonna toss em, but this thread has me thinking...maybe il throw the best one back into veg and run her a second time for kicks!

 

[Marshall]

I revegged two flowering plants and one died. Probably did not leave enough buds/leaves. The other one is a bush now, all compact, etc

The risk you take is you may loose that plant if it doesnt reveg

 

[Haps]

I don't like killing healthy clones either, just seems like a waste. But it is part of the gig, I have a place in my res room where I let culls die naturally, best I can do for them.

Your plan is a good skill to learn, reveg is a good tool, but it is better as a backup plan than a primary method.

One other thought, a grower who learned to cycle reveged plants, could kick ass on quality and yield, but I have never seen it done as a grow method. This gal is a reveg.
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[ambertrich]

LTS, you do not need to keep the whole plant to reveg. Just leave a little bit of bud on a couple of lower branches. Even popcorn bud will work, and you won't waste any good stuff. As everyone has said, it will take some time-strain dependent. And, there are some that just don't do reveg well. But for a killer pheno it is worth the time.

Such an amazing plant, you can clone it, reveg it, and clone/reveg.
You can reveg using a cutting. I have done this several times. Take a cut from a favorite plant well into flower. Clone as normal, it will take longer to show roots, as it will also be trying to begin veg growth again. You can repot this and grow out, or once new veg growth is sufficient, take a normal clone from this and you have a new mom/clones for growing out.

Haps, I think I like the idea of cycled reveg in some ways. Will have to mull that one over a bit. Thanks for planting that seed in my brain.

 

[LetTimmySmoke]

yea if you have the veg space why not! you could reveg your star plants for at least 3 cycles it would be like having free clones/teens!

 

[one Q]

you can clone a lower branch 6-7 weeks in and see if it roots. If it roots it will more than likely survive and throw new growth. Done it twice. Funny to see a gulf ball nug atop roots.

 

[deidree barlow]

in my expierience when i taken clones off a flowering plants for a while they will look deformed and claw like leaves but they will pull through and u will begin to see healthy leaves lighter green they will carry on that colour,but dont think just be patient

 

[ThePizzaMan]

take clones. Re-vegging is a pain in the ass.

I am currently trying it, and have run in to rotting leaves and weird growth.

I guess this is part of the process, but you don't need that stress in your life. Just keep doing what you are doing.

take clones...flower out mothers....and then train the clone in to moms...rock and roll.


And just to add.....running from clone and seed are slightly different. You should also experiment with training methods. It is a time consuming process...but if you plan on running a room with the same exact strain...it is the most crucial part of the process.

You can get an idea from the original seed plant...but when you start running it from clone is where you will see exactly what you are in for. Also, culling female plants that don't make the grade is stupid in the beginning part of the research process. They will provide good smoke...so you should grow them out regardless.