27. REGENERATION

I am not in favour of it, but it is possible to harvest plants and then rejuvenate them vegetative for a 2nd and even 3rd harvest. When harvesting, take off the top 1/3rd of the plant. Leave most healthy fan leaves in the middle of the plant, cutting buds off branches carefully. On the lower 1/3rd of the plant, take off end flowers, but leave several small flowers on each branch. These will be the part of the plant that is regenerated. The more buds you leave on the plant, the faster it will regenerate. Feed the plant high nitrogen plant food immediately after harvest.

Harvested plants can come inside for rejuvenation under continuous light or are left outside in Summer to rejuvenate in the natural long days. It will take 7-14 days to see signs of new growth when regenerating a plant. Allow the plant to grow a little vegetative, then take outside again to re-flower.

In my opinion regenerated plants are very much stressed and go very often from 7 or 5 fingered leaves to 1 finger leaves. It will just take a lot of time to make the plant grow again in a normal way and furthermore, you will lose a part of the first harvest because you cannot cut the whole plant. It is just a lot of work on an old grandfather of a plant, better put your energy into a new plant.