Reveg with buds or without?

yesum · Aug 12, 2019

I have revegged several times with buds left on the bottom third of plant. I recently was told by a old timer that if you cut the buds off and leave the nodes or just a bit of the bud, it works better as the buds release hormone that retards vegetative growth.

I am getting ready to reveg a few and want opinions on this. I know the more of the plant and buds I left on, the quicker it went into veg growth. Also, I had mostly lesser reveg growth than the original growth.

One exception, was a plant that never took off originally, then in reveg it thrived. I never changed the soil so the roots took hold some how and filled up the pot.

Tony21 · Aug 12, 2019

Interesting, how long do you reveg before flipping them into flower?

Any pics would be cool!

yesum · Aug 12, 2019

It varies maybe a couple months or so.

troutman · Aug 12, 2019

I think they remove the buds and only leave the leaves. :tiphat:

I wonder if slowly increasing photoperiod over a few weeks is better than switching from 12/12 to let's say 18/6 overnight?

Lester Beans · Aug 12, 2019

The more flowers left on the plant the better it revegs. Removing all the flowers will make for a struggle to reveg, I have my doubts it will even happen.

CroptimusPrime · Aug 14, 2019

Lester Beans said:
The more flowers left on the plant the better it revegs. Removing all the flowers will make for a struggle to reveg, I have my doubts it will even happen.

I thought buds released hormones that gradually retard vegetative growth - is this retardation not seen even absent revegging, in the later part of flower period?

Mr. J · Aug 14, 2019

CroptimusPrime said:
I thought buds released hormones that gradually retard vegetative growth - is this retardation not seen even absent revegging, in the later part of flower period?

Sounds like stonerbro science to me. More green left on the plant means more photosynthesis and faster growth. I think the light schedule is the critical factor.

pop_rocks · Aug 14, 2019

light cycles trigger the hormones

CannaRed · Aug 14, 2019

Whenever I have revegged a plant (not many, maybe 7-9 times). The new veg growth always grew out of the left on buds first and then out of the other nodes later.

I have always heard that the more buds you leave, the more reveg sites you will have.

I've also heard that the highest buds on the branches that start closest to the soil level will start to reveg first.

CroptimusPrime · Aug 15, 2019

Good to know, especially since the opposite was suggested earlier in the thread.

Cannaseekr · Feb 19, 2020

From my experience you want to leave bud sites on the plant to reveg because the revegatative growth actually develops from the center of the flower where the stem is. The more I leave on my plants to reveg the better success rates I have. Also have noticed that if I remove the bud sites too soon after the veg growth has begun, the plant has a difficult time uptaking water due to decreased photosynthesis.

NEW ENGLAND · Feb 19, 2020

Tony21 said:
Interesting, how long do you reveg before flipping them into flower?

Any pics would be cool!

I've never flipped a reveg back into flower.
I've reveged until the new shoots could be taken for the cloner,and then of to the shit pile for the reveged plant.

The plant is not healthy by that plant,and has no place going back into the bloom room.

THC123 · Feb 19, 2020

I have flowered revegged plants with excellent result!!

First I reveg them and let them. Then as soon as they are revegged it's a bloody jungle so I trim a lot and leave what I need. And then I do a little rootball trim, I remove about 1/3 of the rootball and then I transplant or in the same pot, or something bigger.

For a good reveg, leave some buds, but not too many or else you will have way too many branches and it slows down the process and it is annoying.

D3pthCharg3 · Feb 22, 2020

Thanks for the insights everyone.

Just cut some clones off of a long flowering SSH at week 6 (just getting a decent amount of pistils at this point). I was considering cutting the newly formed immature bud off of one, and leave it on the other. Instead i opted for not f'ing too much with 'em, less is more, or in this case more is better, haha. Hoping this goes well, this one smells like heaven.

CosmicCharlie · Feb 23, 2020

When I revegged Cannabis plants in the past I basically topped them and left a few little lower budsites and Fan Leaves.

If I remember correctly I trimmed the tips off of the Fan leaves kinda like you’d do for a Clone.

It took a couple weeks for new growth to start. The first few weeks of new growth were all single-bladed undeveloped Leaves.

You should wait until the plant is healthy again and putting out full 5-7 fingered leaves before flowering or trying to take clones.

Chevy cHaze · Feb 23, 2020

You can simply leave the buds on, only issue might be botrytis if buds are too dense.
Main thing though is pruning the roots, that's where the majority of flower hormones come from. Also your plant now has little green matter capable of photosynthesis, so not all the roots are needed. Prune the roots generously and the plant will re-veg quickly (It still will take a couple weeks).
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Nico Farmer · Feb 24, 2020

Like others said,

After 4 weeks:

madalasatori · Feb 25, 2020

With.

The new foliage always seems to grow out of the buds for me, it’s a beautiful thing to see :woohoo:

Darpa · Feb 27, 2020

Definitely with buds…

Here is an example… it's cloning and reveging buds test (performed several time for plant selection during flowering and then monster cropping)…

Darpa

Driver 8 · Feb 29, 2020

You don't want to cut buds off, but rather cut them back.

And don't cut them back until you see new five bladed true leaves.

I find that pruning the old and browning flowers and lowest leaves from the regrowth shoots give me the best results.

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