hello everyone!! just thought i would ask what is the best way to keep a plant in veg until i want to bring outside. i have some seeds i want to pop and keep vegging until april but i want to force it to stay in veg until im ready as to let it really get good rooting and many nodes so when i bring it outside its a few feet and ready to start to flower.
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How to keep plants in veg
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Sertaiz
-put lights.....
-could be another way with voodoo dolls or something, but i dont know
-grow autoflowering strains
-could be another way with voodoo dolls or something, but i dont know
-grow autoflowering strains
Sunshineinabag
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IF you keep the plant on a light schedule of 18-20 hours you should be able to keep a PHOTPERIOD plant in vegetative state.
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high nitrogen 20/4 lights.
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Sertaiz
if you wait too long into the spring it will not flower when put out, but veg all spring and half the summer, and bud by fall
autoflowers go a certain number of days and then flower automatically
autoflowers go a certain number of days and then flower automatically
Ace Rothstein
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Nitrogen is only a building block will not keep a plant in vegetative state.
Photo period has an effect on plant hormones.
High levels of Auxin, a plant hormone occurs during short light period. 18 hours of light and 6 hours of dark or 12 hours of light and 1 hour of light in the middle of the dark cycle will keep auxin levels at a point that flowering will be delayed.
Also potting up to ever larger container will keep plant from becoming root bound, will signal the plant that it is time for flowering.
Ace Rothstein
Member
High Nitrogen is not a factor in keeping a plant in Vegetative state. I use 5-15-14 from start to finish Grow bud not leaf.
Length of day, light is key and roots not crowding.
Ace Rothstein
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18 hours of light and 6 hours of dark or 12 hours of light and 1 hour of light in the middle of the dark cycle
Sunshineinabag
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If u take cuttings off the mother plant.....the cuttings will be exactly like the mother plant. Then u can keep as many plants in veg as Ud like! U don't have to keep one plant in perma veg, he is offering u another way to achieve your goal is all brother!
No need to bother with a timer, 24/0 works great with a non-autoflower plant and it means you get more growth in less time. There is no practical reason I've ever seen to bother with a timer in the veg room in my personal experience.
Get a lamp that can take several bulbs, buy a box of LED daylight 100 watt equivalent and point them at the plant 24 hours a day as close as you can get without the leaves turning away from the light or bleaching and that's it until spring.
Don't forget to "harden off" the plant when you put it outside, going straight from indoors to outdoors without easing into it with a few hours at a time is a recipe for a dead plant. It needs to acclimate to the stronger sun, colder weather etc. Do a few more hours progressively each day until you can leave it out overnight, only then is it ready to plant.
Get a lamp that can take several bulbs, buy a box of LED daylight 100 watt equivalent and point them at the plant 24 hours a day as close as you can get without the leaves turning away from the light or bleaching and that's it until spring.
Don't forget to "harden off" the plant when you put it outside, going straight from indoors to outdoors without easing into it with a few hours at a time is a recipe for a dead plant. It needs to acclimate to the stronger sun, colder weather etc. Do a few more hours progressively each day until you can leave it out overnight, only then is it ready to plant.
In case your plant dies.
You can transplant to a new pot, flushing roots add fresh soil. You can put additional bacteria and additives to the soil mix if you like to further stimulate the re-vegging process. At this stage you will have to put your lady under 20-24 hours of light, so it goes back to the vegetative phase. Once it has fully recovered, you can switch to 18 hours of light, like you normally would. Your plant is in stress and shock mode now and will produce strange mutations in the first two weeks like round leaves. This is completely normal for the regeneration process and a more normal growth should start after about two weeks. This also means, that you have to be really careful with watering and adding nutrients because you don't want to overwater or overfeed your baby.
After a few weeks, your plant is ready to get into flower mode again. Trim back the strange leaves and give your experiment a little rest, then switch to 12/12 light cycle. This can save you time compared to a full cycle from seed to harvest.
After a few weeks, your plant is ready to get into flower mode again. Trim back the strange leaves and give your experiment a little rest, then switch to 12/12 light cycle. This can save you time compared to a full cycle from seed to harvest.
The benefits of rejuvenating your cannabis plants can be plenty if done correctly. Unfortunately, a lot can go wrong and usually regenerated plants tend to yield far less in every successive harvest, and often show hermaphrodite tendencies, the quality and potency can be reduced and the stress that comes with this process can also force the plant to take a long recovery (which eliminates the time advantage).
Moreover, regeneration does not work with all strains and specimen of cannabis.
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