Is Re-veg possible if upon harvest, ONLY the Bud was cut?

I'm a few weeks into my grow, and my plants are about to reach the mesh I have put in place for my SCROG set up. I started imagining it filled up with plants, and the thought of chopping it all up, and starting it all over again was disheartening. I started to think about the possibility of Re-vegging, which I know to be possible to do after harvest. Most information says to leave green and some small buds, and you'll see new growth soon, and the images they show are a hacked up plant all the way down to 1-2 feet, with short chopped branches.

My Question is this:

"What If I were to only snip the Buds from my plant, and leave the rest of it sprawled out on the mesh. I would then go into a re-veg state by changing the lights, and timers, and soon after new growth, kick back into flowering. My idea is that then bud could grow from all the same locations as previously, and I could go in and snip it again when its done."

Possible Answers:

The Plant will die, but won't grow from previous locations, it should work!

I'm wondering what you guys think would happen, and I'm especially wondering if anybody has tried it and what the outcome was.

Try it and let us know how it goes for you. Probably work.
I normally remove from SCROG. Trim 50% of root ball and re pot in new soil. Then back under the screen.

If u leave enough vegitation, including buds, then you can reveg a plant. The buds break out into new growth.

No buds, no go.

It should be fairly simple for you to re-veg and re-flower without worrying about the height. It is difficult to trim a plant while taking buds only. Do a regular harvest but make sure your plant is 1/2 the height it was pre-harvest. I mean make sure the main stem is half what it was. You need to leave a double handful of greenery on the plant post-harvest so the re-vegging process has something to start with. You can't do a successful re-grow by just leaving a dozen fan leaves. You want small branches and flowers mostly around the base of the plant. Every branch you snip off during harvest will grow back as 2 branches. My re-grows average 125-175% increase in yield from the first to second harvest. Reason is you have twice as many bud sites that are a bit smaller the second time around. After harvest slip them into veg lighting for 3-4 weeks. It's the second time through with the same dirt so be sure to nute the re-grow appropriately. Bonus - if the plant took 7-8 weeks to finish flowering the first time, you will reach the same maturity in 5 1/2 to 6 weeks. At least that's how my indicas in my perpetual grow act. Works 4 me, BigSteve.

Steve, what size pots are you using? I would bet you have one heck of a root system going on after that much time. The plant would be about 9 or 10 months old when done.

What has always worked for me is to just leave the bottom 3rd of the plant when i revegg. Ive actually got bigger yeilds off all the same plants just revegged and flowered again.

Just to make sure, You don't think you could treat it like another flowering plant, snip off the flower, and watch the flower grow back next year? Like for example, tree's or bushes flower like once a year or whatever, if I were to go cut every flower, I doubt the plant would die, and It would definitely grow flowers back next year right? So to be clear, I wouldn't care if the plant doesn't actually get any bigger, I'm just wondering if the bud (flower) would grow back in the places that I've snipped it off. I do feel like if it worked, people would have done it by now, but there's always that small possibility nobody has thought of it yet lol.

FrozenTouch said:

Just to make sure, You don't think you could treat it like another flowering plant, snip off the flower, and watch the flower grow back next year? Like for example, tree's or bushes flower like once a year or whatever, if I were to go cut every flower, I doubt the plant would die, and It would definitely grow flowers back next year right? So to be clear, I wouldn't care if the plant doesn't actually get any bigger, I'm just wondering if the bud (flower) would grow back in the places that I've snipped it off. I do feel like if it worked, people would have done it by now, but there's always that small possibility nobody has thought of it yet lol.

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I doubt it. Light cycles would need to be manipulated.

There is a thread here somewhere dedicated to reveg...