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Re-Vegging / rejuvinating your crop · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hi, welcome back to Hydroponics Daily. Today we're going to be talking about
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  re-vegging your plants.
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  This is where you take an adult plant that's flowered and fruited and turn it
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  back into its juvenile form.
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  Now, this is difficult, but it's not as difficult as doing it with a human.
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  You can't take a 70-year-old human and rejuvenate them back into an 8-year-old.
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  If you could, that would be a license to print money.
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  But in plants, it's possible with certain plants, certain hydroponic crops,
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  ones that can't be named here,
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  hops for example, they can be
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  taken from a plant that has flowered and fruited and you can rejuvenate
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  them now the way you do this is that you revert them back
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  into the photo period where they where the
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  juvenile forms the vegetative form was dominant and
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  so that's a long day so you have anything upwards
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  of 18 hours a day in lights and then
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  you leave them in those conditions you chop
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  the plants back and to the bottom we're just
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  leaving a couple of nodes and then hopefully juvenile
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  tissue will come from there doesn't always happen happens a
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  lot more when you've got smaller plants the bigger the plant has gotten the less
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  likelihood you'll get with success but it is possible and
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  eventually you will get juvenile tissue
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  forming that you can take cuttings from now you wouldn't do this to create mother
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  plants because the cuttings that you get from these rejuvenated plants don't
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  take as well once the plant has flowered and fruited something happens in the
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  plant not sure what it is or plant scientists are not sure what it is but it
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  makes the plant the cuttings far less.
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  Able to to take and produce roots
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  and do it a lot slower so what you would do if normally
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  when you're rejuvenating you're looking for a plant that's produced really good
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  flowers fruits or some other traits of
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  color scent and then you say right well i want
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  to take cuttings from that and then you rejuvenate it take cuttings
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  from it and then you produce mother plants from those cuttings and
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  then you could also go on to with the cuttings from those mother plants to create
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  a crop you don't do rejuvenation to get a second and third crop routinely if
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  you that's because the it takes such a long time to do it then you're better
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  off starting with fresh cuttings and seeds,
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  and also when you your your grow media will have got tired and compacted and
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  the plant will be got tired as well and so and you'll get pests and diseases
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  will have built up and you might have got bacteria in the xylem the phloem and
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  things like this and so you're better off starting again
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  the second and third crops don't yield as well and the quality is normally not as good.
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  Other reasons you might want to rejuvenate is if your mother plants have been
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  killed off or your cuttings have
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  been killed off and you've got specific genetics that you want to retain.
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  So that's why you might want to reveg plants.
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  If you are going into flowering and fruiting and you know that you want to rejuvenate
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  that plant, then make sure you leave plenty of growth on the lower parts of the plant.
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  Don't be defoliating like mad if you
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  know that you're looking to rejuvenate that plant
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  because those are the tissues that you
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  want to convert back when you switch them
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  back into long days so the plants can look
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  pretty deformed they can look pretty ugly but eventually
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  you will get material that you'll be able to take cuttings from
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  vegetative growth so if you've tried re-vegging
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  you think i've missed something is there a trick is there
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  a tip is there a product that helps then let
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  me know and i'll do a second post on second episode
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