I've revegged three or four plants. They all worked. I didn't put any special love into them. The first time I really noticed anyone doing it was when Pigeons revegged a plant last year. I did a quick google at that time and came up with a couple things. The standard info about leaving the bottom third of the plant alone when you harvest, before trying a reveg. The bottom third of the plant doesn't amount to much, so leaving it alone isn't too painful. Somebody out there also said to cut the rootball down to a small lump before repotting and putting it back in the veg room.
I've done it both ways- cutting the root ball down, and leaving the whole pot alone. Because I'm growing in peat moss, which tends to compact and lose some of it's quality over time, it makes sense to me to cut the roots down and repot it- less rootbound, and fresh medium for the roots.
Intuition says that it would be best to have a fairly dry pot at harvest. After harvest you have a plant with very little foliage, basically a small plant with little transpiration happening, even though it has a lot of roots. If it's in a large pot of wet medium I think it's going to struggle. Go easy on the watering.
As for the safety of the process/trusting that it's going to work- I don't know. It's really all or nothing by the time you reach the point of revegging after harvest. I'd clone first if possible. Right now I seem to be having cloning troubles for some reason and so far don't have a single clone of any of the three Malawi phenos. Some might have taken this week while I was away, but they weren't looking good. It's stressing me out a bit actually. If these clones fail I'll have to bet the Malawi farm on a reveg and try to reveg all three. If they survive, next round I'll figure out how to make some colloidal silver and produce some feminized seeds from them.
The other plants that I revegged weren't very important to me. The Malawis are at this point and I'd hate to see them disappear- so if I have to reveg them I'll definitely be pampering them and hanging around singing them little positive reveg songs and crap.
With Cheesy I've kept her on a low level of nutrient right to the end, rather than doing the water-only thing, and I'll also maybe be harvesting her a week earlier than I might otherwise- in the hopes that this allows her a little extra growing vigor. For some reason I usually like to leave my plants to flower long. I've become addicted to that colorful dead yellow leaf/gooey bud look. It seems wrong to harvest green plants- even though I may find I like the high better -I'm not sure, have it on my to-do list to experiment around with the harvest times of the Malawi and see how it affects the high.
Things have been insanely busy around here as well Stihl. I have a feeling that it's not just us, as a fair number of people have been pretty quiet here lately. The occasions I've had time to hang out here have been when I've been stalled waiting around for things at work. Not exactly quality time but I'll take what I can get.
Shiggity, I noticed your smokathon event and checked my calendar. I'll join in for sure and smoke as much as circumstances allow (as I usually do, lol)
