So I flowered some plants out to sex them before putting them outside this year for the first time, and I may have left them in flower too long. I kinda did the same last year with plants I tried flowering out indoors that never finished. I tossed all those ones outside last years april and while some flipped to reveg rather fast some of them took ages. All my plants this year have been transplanted and in the ground for a week now, and I’m a little worried I screwed the pooch on this one and might lose weeks or months of veg time on all my plants.
Does anyone happen to know any tips or tricks on encouraging a plant to flip back faster? You would be a life saver
I have been considering a little nite lite type of thing to go off for an hour at night to disrupt their dark period. I’ll probably go to that as a last resort if I really have to try to extend their growing season. Thankfully north cali is warm and dry enough most of the year to accommodate that
I just asked my grow buddy to give the ladies some alfalfa based 4-3-3. Hoping there’s some hormone goodness in there to wake the ladies up a bit
No offense but I’m way too cheap for that stuff I just need to dial in the flip-reflip process a bit.
I tried the dave watson 3 day flip trick but didn’t see any results after a week and needed them sexed and outside asap since it was already creepin up on early/mid may. I ended up flipping them again for a week or more Next time I think I’ll stick to 4 day doses at max, and be a little more patient waiting for them to show
Revegging works best in 24/0 to 20/ 4 light…meaning you need a light at night. Make sure you foliar feed with low dose veg notes, and (jmo) super thrive.
I reveg all the time, but only indoors.
Good plan. I do the same thing and occasionally I’ve gotten impatient, same as you… 4 days is safe in my experience. 5 is teetering on the brink, some plants might go into full-on flower and some might not be bothered in the slightest. Any more than 5 days and you’re probably gonna be revegging, at least for your average hybrid.
I would seriously consider the phrase “penny wise, pound foolish” here. You’re going to end up spending more time and money playing the reveg game. $120 for ten tests is arguably the most valuable dollars I spent on the hobby this past year.
I bump the suggestion more light hours. 24 is ideal for quicker reveg IMO
Preforming surgery on those girls will also speed things up. Get into those bud sites and snip away some of the old bud growth. leave only the sections of the bud showing new leaf development. They will stop wasting energy trying to reveg the whole bud. All that energy will be put into regrowing the parts you didnt snip off.
Yes surgery and up-potting are necessary. I’ve had girls on 20/4 for months and have them start really trying to reveg after putting them in a larger pot.
Also, choose the number of colas you want - whatever that number is. And make sure after she reveges, to pick the winners and losers early. My last reveg was an unmanageable thicket by harvest, with tiny little popcorn buds. It became hash oil.
After transplanting outside in boxes and giving them some alfalfa based 4-3-3 noots the ladies all seem to be revegging nicely I suppose the double dose with about a week and a half of flowering lights wasn’t all that intense for em. It only took ~2 weeks to see obvious signs of new vegetative growth. Still maybe a bit longer that I would have liked, but it’s good to know I have some wiggle room to really dial it in
Cool yet perhaps obvious observation: the longer flowering sativa’s were much quicker to bounce back from flowering than the shorter flowering hybrids. Makes sense, if sativas take longer to go into flower, then maybe they build up “flowering hormones” (for lack of a better word) slower than the hybrids, which means there’s less they have to bounce back from
That definitely sounded like a good plan B, I’ll have to remember that one for the future
I just need to dial in the flip-reflip process a bit.
Next time I think I’ll stick to 4 day doses at max, and be a little more patient waiting for them to show
I do the same thing and occasionally I’ve gotten impatient, same as you… 4 days is safe in my experience. 5 is teetering on the brink, some plants might go into full-on flower and some might not be bothered in the slightest. Any more than 5 days and you’re probably gonna be revegging, at least for your average hybrid.
I suppose the double dose with about a week and a half of flowering lights wasn’t all that intense for em. It only took ~2 weeks to see obvious signs of new vegetative growth. Still maybe a bit longer that I would have liked, but it’s good to know I have some wiggle room to really dial it in