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hazeydaze420 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 08:38 PM

can you cut the top half of the plant down when the buds are ready and let the bottom half finish ?

Shinningwind · #2 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 09:49 PM

Yes... I have read here that lots of people do it. Doing that give's the bottum half a chance to fatten up and ripen....

purplehaze4u · #3 (**permalink**) 07-09-2009, 10:01 PM

well thats what i am gong to try and see how it turns out

Pepe` · #4 (**permalink**) 07-10-2009, 02:26 PM

done it many times... tops are closer to the light and in poor penetration areas, it would just be a shame to not let those lower nugs finish off properly.

Texas Liar · #5 (**permalink**) 07-12-2009, 01:31 AM

I wonder if you'd get new top growth if you put it back on 24/0? Could you get the plant to believe it's just been topped?

Tex

SmokeToLive · #6 (**permalink**) 07-12-2009, 01:34 AM

You can probably reveg it if you wanted to, but you might as well just let the buds finish. I'm guessing they will be done sooner than a revegged plant.

You might even be able to reveg it after you harvest the lower buds anyway.

Pepe` · #7 (**permalink**) 07-12-2009, 01:59 AM

re-vegging before the lower buds finish would be a waste, IMHO.

every time I've re-vegged a plant (usually because I really liked a strain I had traded or something and hadn't cloned) I remove all that flowering growth anyway. seems to free the plant up from confusion of splitting growth to support strangling flowers and growing leaves and stalks. I'm no scientist, just my experience and "feeling" from the plants I've worked with. take it for what it's worth.

Richard Owl Mirror · #8 (**permalink**) 07-12-2009, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Pepe`

re-vegging before the lower buds finish would be a waste, IMHO.

every time I've re-vegged a plant (usually because I really liked a strain I had traded or something and hadn't cloned) I remove all that flowering growth anyway. seems to free the plant up from confusion of splitting growth to support strangling flowers and growing leaves and stalks. I'm no scientist, just my experience and "feeling" from the plants I've worked with. take it for what it's worth.

I have heard along with leaving some veg growth that leaving just one small bud helps the plant somehow. Maybe because it is there that a majority of the leaf would be left down low.
I will be doing this half-harvest also with my current plant.
She has 5 top cola's and about a dozen lower cola's.
I'll take the 5 largest cola's, then lower my lights for another week or so to finish up the rest.

Pepe` · #9 (**permalink**) 07-12-2009, 03:00 AM

looking good ROM and nice to see you again, btw.

I'm assuming your back on the topic of the "2 part harvests" and not re-vegging.
When I picked the tops and leave the lowers, I generally take the whole stalk... while I can see there being a benefit from leaving leaves to feed the plant, I was also concerned over leaving multiple wounds where I would have picked off each bud vs. a single wound area where I clipped the stalk.
I just figured that the plant could heal up the one point faster and with less energy/growth loss than many little spots, but that was simply my own ideas on healing and it's worked for me, but having not tried the other I really can't say which would be superior.

Richard Owl Mirror · #10 (**permalink**) 07-12-2009, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Pepe`

looking good ROM and nice to see you again, btw.

I'm assuming your back on the topic of the "2 part harvests" and not re-vegging.
When I picked the tops and leave the lowers, I generally take the whole stalk... while I can see there being a benefit from leaving leaves to feed the plant, I was also concerned over leaving multiple wounds where I would have picked off each bud vs. a single wound area where I clipped the stalk.
I just figured that the plant could heal up the one point faster and with less energy/growth loss than many little spots, but that was simply my own ideas on healing and it's worked for me, but having not tried the other I really can't say which would be superior.

Hi Pepe' nice to see you again.
Yeah I wasn't thinking about re-vegging this plant.
I would think if it is easy enough to take the bud while leaving the branches, that would be best for re-vegging since the smaller bud stem would heal quicker than a thicker woody stem.
I would also think delaying in placing it under strong lights right after cutting it would benefit the plant. Maybe just set her in a corner where daylight can reach her for a week or so before putting her back under the lamps. The hot lights would dry out the wounds to a certain degree and you will be left with dead wood for a few inches from the wound.
Letting her heal in dim daylight might assist in saving as much of the plant as possible.

Pepe` · #11 (**permalink**) 07-12-2009, 03:17 AM

when I've re-vegged, I've generally cut the plant to the quick, leaving a few veg spots and a few buds too, but removing the buds after regrowth starts... not only to harvest what was there as a priority, but to give the plant a clean track for re-growth. Now... this could easily be a bad thing and I don't deny it, but if I didn't do it... my OCD would probably drive me stark raving mad.

OCD is great for organization, if you can keep it under control but with some things it gets the better of me and things suffer. I suppose that's why they call this orderly affliction a "dis-order". ;)

One of the other things I hate to see during re-vegging is the polyploid behavior. drives me nuts just because it looks so very wrong.