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Grower, In today's issue... - What are the advantages of re-vegging (reverting a flowering
cannabis back to the vegetative stage)?
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Intro: What is Re-Vegging Cannabis?
"Re-vegging" cannabis is what happens anytime you take a cannabis plant in the flowering (budding) stage and revert it back to the vegetative stage. Cannabis plants
that are re-vegging can display strange stretchy growth and often grow round leaves with no serrations.
Example of a revegging cannabis plant - the edges of the new leaves are round instead of serrated Why Growers Re-Veg on Purpose - Monster Cropping - Take a cannabis clone from a flowering plant, a
technique that is sometimes known as "monstercropping" (more on that below!)
- Harvest Plant 2nd Time - Re-grow a cannabis plant after harvest
Accidental Re-Vegging
A cannabis plant may be accidentally re-vegged due to various light schedule problems. Learn more about cannabis light schedules. For example...
- Light Leaks in the Flowering
Stage - revegging is common when flowering cannabis plants are exposed to light during their 12-hour dark period, for example if there's a light leak in the grow tent, or if someone is occasionally turning the light on in the closet.
- Planting Outdoors Too Early - Putting cannabis plants outside at the wrong time of year can be a culprit. If a cannabis seedling is planted too early in
the spring, it will start flowering almost immediately due to the short days but will start revegging when the days get longer. Wait to plant cannabis outside until mid to late spring to prevent this from happening.
- Changing Hands - When a plant is sold, traded, or otherwise changes hands, it's not unusual to see signs of revegging if the plant is changing light
schedules
These cannabis plants were re-vegged by accident
Close to Harvest Right After Being Brought Outside Too Early in the Year, Causing Re-Veg Though the initial leaves grow in looking strange, the new leaves will start growing normally again a week or two after the plant is fully back in the vegetative stage.
"Monstercropping" - Cloning a Flowering Cannabis Plant
What is "Monstercropping?" It's basically a fancy word someone came up with to describe what happens when you take a clone from a flowering cannabis plant.
This clone was taken from a flowering cannabis plant, notice the strange rounded leaves Here's the same plant 2 days later. It continues to grow new leaves with round edges while the plant is re-vegging. It takes 1-3 weeks before the plant starts growing normally
again. In addition to the initial strange growth of the leaves, during the process of reverting back to the vegetative stage, a cannabis clone tends to grow much more bushy than normal with a strong tendency
to create many side branches. Some growers prefer this pattern of growth and re-veg plants on purpose to try to create this effect.
Example of a Monstercropped Cannabis Plant However, it seems the altered growth patterns only exist for the first few weeks after the switch to the vegetative stage, which can be a good or a bad thing depending on how the plant is trained. The changes in growth from
monstercropping also seems to have a varying effect depending on the strains grown. In any case, you can override how your plant grows naturally if you use plant training!
This picture gives you a bit of an idea of the initial strange stretchy growth of a monstercropped cannabis clone. In the end this monstercropped plant yielded less
than the other clones in the grow room. If you're already taking clones from a flowering cannabis plant for other reasons, that's a great time to experience monstercropping for yourself so you can see what you think. However, from speaking with other growers who have
monstercropped their cannabis plants, there seems to be a consensus that it's not a consistent technique for getting the plant to branch out, so it should always be combined with other plant training techniques to make sure you get the results you're looking for.
For what other reasons do growers take cuttings from cannabis plants in the flowering stage?
It's common for
a grower to want to take a clone from a particularly impressive plant before harvest. But when that happens, the clone must go through the process of reverting back to the vegetative stage before it will start growing again.
How to Take Clones From a Flowering Cannabis Plant
If taking clones from a flowering plant...
- Take cuttings from the bottom of the plant
- Make sure to pinch off any buds (may improve rooting speed; also, bud growth halts)
- Expect clones taken from a flowering plant tend to take a little longer to root compared to clones taken in the vegetative stage
This is what clones from a flowering plant look like after they start re-vegging, this is completely normal! These plants will start growing normally again in 1-3 weeks Harvesting a 2nd Time: Should you grow a cannabis plant again after harvest?
It seems like the obvious way to grow cannabis...at least it seemed that way to me when I first started growing. I wanted to harvest the plants, wait, and then get to harvest them again. The idea of having a cannabis plant that
keeps giving you bud is so appealing! Who doesn't want a cannabis plant that's like an orange tree with the ability to pick off a bud whenever you want?
Unfortunately it's not quite that simple. A cannabis plant is very "single-minded" in the way that it's either growing buds or it's growing stems/leaves, and not a lot in between. Unlike an orange tree which can produce leaves and oranges at the same time, cannabis plants tend to focus on
making just one or the other. So since the plant is in "flowering" mode when the plant is harvested, you need to revert it back to the growing/vegetative stage (reveg the plant) before it will start growing again for your second harvest. This is because your plant will need to produce new budsites from which to grow bud.
During that process the plant will display some odd growth and possibly strangely shaped leaves, before it starts growing
again, just like any other revegged cannabis plant.
One thing to keep in mind when re-growing a harvested cannabis plant is you're still working with the "skeleton" of your old plant. Every part of the plant that you don't cut off during harvest will remain with you. One of the really nice things about growing a cannabis plant from seed or clone, is it is so flexible and gives you the ability to train the plant however you want. It can be a pain to work with the ravaged shell of an old plant, instead of being able to get the plant to grow however you want.
This plant was just harvested, and a few branches were left to help the plant re-veg Ideally, the grower would have removed the buds, since they will soon shrivel and die anyway (and you might as well harvest them!). When re-vegging a cannabis plant, it's better to remove all buds, and make sure to leaves several leaves
and growth tips. But even in conditions that aren't ideal, the plant will usually recover and start growing even if it takes a little longer!
Here's that plant 3 days later after being put on a 24/0 schedule, you can see the buds are dying but the plant has created several new leaves, some of which are smooth edged like a typical re-veg.
From this point on, new vegetative growth will continue to emerge from the green parts, and the plant can be grown again to a suitable size and re-harvested.
Benefits to re-vegging cannabis after harvest - you don't have to plant a new seed or clone
- possibly saved vegetative time
- no need to dispose of harvested plant
- re-vegged plants can grow back more bushy (sometimes to an extreme)
Downsides to re-vegging cannabis after harvest - it can take a few weeks for a flowering plant to fully re-veg and start growing vigorously, and sometimes re-vegged plants just always
grow slowly
- initial growth is strange and stretchy
- plant training is more difficult since you have to work with the "skeleton" of the old plant
- yields are often lower the second time around
If
you do decide to re-veg a cannabis plant after harvest:
- During harvest, remove most of the plant including big branches, but make sure let the plant keep several leaves and a few "growth tips" where leaves are emerging. Your plant uses these to start forming new vegetative growth more quickly.
- Pinch off
any buds on your remaining vegetative growth, so there's only leaves and stems. If you skip this step your plant will still reveg, but you're going to lose the buds anyway so why not harvest them? Plus it's possible the plant may reveg faster if you remove the buds first.
- It's normal for new growth to look strange, but the plant will start growing regular cannabis leaves after 1-3 weeks in the vegetative stage
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