Harvest without killing plants??? Perpetually grow and harvest

[420enthusiast]

Why does harvesting have to involve killing the plant? I had a plant one time that I harvested and then put back into vegetative growth.

Couldn't one trim the harvest, put the plant back into vegetative growth for a couple weeks, and harvest again? This seems easier to me than dealing with cloning and having another room.

[blaaboy]

bump , good question.

ive read about regeneration aswell but havent tried it and was looking for opinions of people that did . i only have 1 hps light and 1 grow area so cloning isnt really possible and i hate to have to go back to square one (seed) after harvest and wait all that time again

[Ganja Guerrilla]

yes you can I have one I just started to re-veg last week

I transplanted into larger pot and replaced as much soil as I could, water well and kick lites back to 18/6

1 week later give it a GOOD dose of nitrogen to force new growth
3 weeks take clones

less yield each time 3-5 times

[420enthusiast]

http://www.snow-white.nl/engeland/h27REGENERATION.htm

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.

also:
http://weedfarmer.com/growing_guide/regeneration.php