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-+- The Merry Pranksters from Menlo Park -+-
10.1990.01.01.31
Marijuana Grower's Handbook - part 31 of 33
by pH Imbalance
"Regeneration"
from
Marijuana Grower's Handbook
[Indoor/Greenhouse Edition]
Ed Rosenthal
After the marijuana plant has ripened and the flowers havr reached full
maturity, it still responds to changes in its environment. Plants can be
regenerated and can yield a second, third and possibly even more harvests.
In its natural environment, marijuana flowers in the fall, and then dies
as the environment becomes inhospitable and the number of daylight hours
decrease. However, if the daylength increases, the plants soon begin to
revert from flowering to vegetative growth. At first, the plant produces
single-fingered leaves, then 3 and 5 fingered leaves. Within a few weeks
the plants grow at the rapid vegetative rate.
There are several advantages to regenerating marijuana plants rather than
starting from seed. The plant has been harvested and its qualities and
potency are known. The plant has already built its infrastructure. Its
root system and main stem are already grown so that it takes less energy and
time for the plant to produce new vegetative growth. A regenerated plant
produces the same amount of veetatipe rowth in 45 days that takes a plant
started from seed 75 days.
To regenerate a plant, some leaves and bud material are left on the stem
as the plant is harvested. The stem may be let at nearly its full length,
or cut back to only a few inches above the ground. The more stem with leaf
material left on the plant, the faster it regenerates, as new growth
develops at the sites of the remaining leaf material.
The plant started flowering in response to a change in the light cycle.
To stop the flowering process, the light cycle is turned back to a long day
period. The plant reacts as if it had lived through the winter and renews
growth as i it were spring. Within 7-10 days new non-flowering growth is
apparent.
Marijuana seems to react fastest to the change in light cycle when the
light is kept on continually during the changeoper period. Ater it has
indicated new 'rowth, the liht cycle may be adjusted to the normal garden
lighting cycle.