Can I keep my flowered beauties alive when I harvest if I'm as gentle as possible?

I always take and use clones and occaisionally grow from seed when I want to try some "new" strain, but, my question is this: Is there a way to harvest a mature, ripe plant with only cutting the absolute, most necessary branches, and definately not cutting the stalk, and put it back on an 18/6 light schedule and keep watering it, without killing it? I have never tried this before, but I believe I've heard this is possible and would like to try it to see for myself. If anyone has done this and knows definatively that either, A-is not possible, or B-this is totally do-able, man, that would certainly help qualm my ever-active cannibis-centered mind.....and it would be totally righteous and i would thank you with many thanks...

Re-vegging, possible..and you don't have to be as gentle as you think.

yeah its called re veg i would just look it up and read as much about it as you can but from what i understand you leave acouple nodes on the bottom and then put it in veg cycle again and then soon the branches will be good enough to clone and then make your clone your motherplant and take clones from it. if you wanna keep it alive for a while

True dat re-vegged a White Rhino after taking like 90% of it for smoke.

Some plants of mine have been stripped really bare and revegged, yield was way down the second time around. The first new leaves look like the first leaves from a seed, smooth and round, only bigger.

Awesum. I figured so. I'm glad I took about five or six nice clones off of the G.D.P. though. I think I'm gonna try it with one or two for gits and shiggles.

You might want to transplant her first, get-er goin in new dirt, cut the majority of the root mass off, slash em a few times, let her establish, then 24/0. Treating her like a cutting. Be prepared to wait.