Bringing a plant back from flowering into veg

I have seven girls now, at week 11 from seed, who have been flowering for 6 weeks... so we are about 3-4 weeks out from harvest time?

Anyhow, there are one (poss. two) that I might like to keep as mother plants and take cuttings from. I've read the cloning tutorial, and happy to see not much has changed in plant propagation 101.

My big question is HOW to prune my girl in a way that won't seriously harm it? I assume once I get the amputations addressed, then just stick her back under 18-6 with lower light wattage and ease back into higher N nutes? Once new growth occurs with vigor, then begin taking clones? I only need 4-5 hearty plants per flower cycle...

The one gal in particular I'd maybe like to keep is a Dinafem Cheese. She's about 40" tall, growing in ProMixBX in a plastic milk crate, and I nipped into 4 main colas + a number of decent secondaries that have poked through the bushes into the light.

My setup is two smallish rooms, 1k lights + CO2 in each, I'm a newb and haven't settled on any 'style' just yet. AND the flower room is going to get one major improvement after this first harvest (floor drains, not really an upgrade) so that may further drive me into one particular style? IDK and still in school @ 45 years.

Thanks for a poke in the right direction!

You don't need to bring it to veg, taking clones in flowering is normal

you don't want to change a plant back to flower to make a mother this will stress the plant and the clones you take will be weaker you need to start from seed and keep the mother in veg and sex her with clones or wait till you see pre flowers keep all the girls and grow clones from each out and keep only the best of the best plants thats the way they come out with clone only strains they get an awsome pheno and keep her alive for years

in school at 45 and on the east coast you aint my uncle are you I know my uncles still working on his phd he teaches computers in college but still working on his phd and he only makes like 50k a year he should be growing weed for sure he lives in mass 50 pounds sale or cultivation is a misdermeanor and max of 2 years shit 2 years for 50lbs I could do that shit standing on my head

UnpossibleOne said:

I have seven girls now, at week 11 from seed, who have been flowering for 6 weeks... so we are about 3-4 weeks out from harvest time?

Anyhow, there are one (poss. two) that I might like to keep as mother plants and take cuttings from. I've read the cloning tutorial, and happy to see not much has changed in plant propagation 101.

My big question is HOW to prune my girl in a way that won't seriously harm it? I assume once I get the amputations addressed, then just stick her back under 18-6 with lower light wattage and ease back into higher N nutes? Once new growth occurs with vigor, then begin taking clones? I only need 4-5 hearty plants per flower cycle...

The one gal in particular I'd maybe like to keep is a Dinafem Cheese. She's about 40" tall, growing in ProMixBX in a plastic milk crate, and I nipped into 4 main colas + a number of decent secondaries that have poked through the bushes into the light.

My setup is two smallish rooms, 1k lights + CO2 in each, I'm a newb and haven't settled on any 'style' just yet. AND the flower room is going to get one major improvement after this first harvest (floor drains, not really an upgrade) so that may further drive me into one particular style? IDK and still in school @ 45 years.

Thanks for a poke in the right direction!

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LOL I aint UR long lost uncle Bluntmassa But I can be rented for birthdays or other special occasions. I am a grandpa (for real, three princesses 18, 5.5 & 1.3) and they work me like a borrowed mule. The school I'm enrolled in is here at "RIU . edu" and the School of Hard Knocks I have built in Grandma's cellar!

This gal is already deep into flowering presently... what I'd like to try is instead of harvesting the whole plant in a few weeks, is to prune off (most of?) the yummy buds when they become ripe, and then grow cuttings from fresh new growth from the existing "trunk and branches"... I think the container is large enough she could live a long time w/o becoming bound up...

Once I harvest this crop, I need to get everything out of the flower room (to redo the floor) so I'd move this one next door to the grow room under MH @ 600w to start off, using an 18-6 cycle. I'll only need a couple days to finish the floor (cues up Sammy's High Hopes) once I get after it.

Also have another batch starting from seeds (More Mr. Nice Medicine Man, and a fem'd R.P. OG #18) so I won't be totally wedded to cloning this one. It may not smoke worth a shit anyways. The fem'd RP #18 I might nip a couple shoots off, and bring those to flower?

Honestly, it may be wiser to get a couple grows completed, to get a grip on my mad newb skillz & slam up against my limitations! Then with those facility revisions (no more floods and better climate management) and some lessons learned, I'll be on firmer ground to possibly undertake serious cultivation. Right now I'm just learning, and my goals are moving targets.

$50k/yr in MA? Holy Fuck! I'd fucking stoke a bowl, Stihl some trees up, whack em into a fucking Mayflower, recruit a crew of hot pilgrim gals, Yo, Ho, Ho! and set sail for the land of the fucking free. I escaped MA (birth to 18y Masshole) and while still not quite free, I feel liberated. But they did sort of Decrim it there, and that'll NEVER happen here in Taliban country, so :dunno: good luck to him on his Doctorate. I'm still chasing an AA/AS in something.

any photoperiod sensitive plant can be dragged kicking and screaming back from flowering and into vegetative life cycle, but it isnt easy.

youre on the right track, with the careful pruning at harvest and lower light levels in the veg room. be super careful with the higher nitrogen, you want good levels of potassium and phosphorus for health and root growth, then EASE into the nitrgen to stimulate vegetation, try to keep as much healthy foliage during harvest, and dont starve or flush her. keep harvest time stress at a minimum (no rusty nails through stems!) and let her settle back in to healthy veg growth. dont take any clones for at least a month of re-vegetation, and watch for hermies. i dont usually deal with plants that use imperfect flowers except corn, and they are always hermies. once she is back into veg (if she survives) she will be as healthy as ever genetically speaking, and new growth (but ONLY NEW GROWTH) will be structurally the same as she was in her first life in vegetative growth. once you have a new healthy node or two, clone them, and once they are established use those as new mother plants. your re-veged plant will always have the flowering structural changes and funky hormonal problems, so i would flower her again as soon as the clones are solid. who knows, the second flowering may be the trick to create a SuperDope. the kind the politicians claim we been developing for the last 30 years... The highly addictive and deadly reefer that makes white girls sleep with entertainers and jazz musicians. one can only hope.