Cannabis Regeneration: A Multiple Harvest Method For Greater Yields
Published by Leabhar Inc., Toronto, Canada
Copyright © 2015 J.B. Haze
Photographs © 2015 J.B. Haze
ISBN 978-1-937866-33-4
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DEDICATION
For the island girl in the Beetle with the doobie
There are three paths: seed, clone, regeneration. Ignoring any one is akin to handing a third of the pie back to god.
—former two-timin’ man
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface: Just Like Magic
Introduction
PART ONE
Chapter 1 Conceptually Speaking
Chapter 2 The MRS
Chapter 3 Increased Yield
Chapter 4 Saving Light, Power, Space and Consumables
PART TWO
Chapter 5 Preparation
Chapter 6 Rescuing and Regenerating Your Harvested Plant
Chapter 7 Initial Regrowth
Chapter 8 Staking, Teasing and Training Prior to Flowering
Chapter 9 The Second Flowering
Chapter 10 The Second Harvest
PART THREE
Chapter 11 Adapting The MRS for Successive Regenerations
Chapter 12 Using Regeneration to Complement Cloning and Seeding
Chapter 13 Expanding The MRS to Multiple Plants
Final Words
Footnotes
Further Reading
About the Author
Index
I’d like to thank Andrew and the wonderful team (Heather, Ian and Jack) at Green Candy Press for their undying efforts to make this the very best book possible. From contract to culmination, it’s been a joy.
Over eight long and dutiful weeks you’ve flowered a sweet, succulent and fragrant plant. She’s a keeper: 30 delicious colas, all glistening with goodness. However, just as you’re holding pruning shears to her trunk, you’re beating yourself up over having not taken clones or kept seeds.
“Damn…” you whisper under your breath, stumbling and stubbing your toe. “If I harvest her now she’ll be gone forever—kaput! There’s got to be a way to save these genetics without wasting all these yummy buds!”
Wiping the grimace from your face, and the blood from your foot, you carefully consider which of three possible actions to take:
1. Follow the instructions (in many a grow book) for attempting to “re-green” or “rejuvenate” the cannabis: Cut down your plant, leaving about 15 to 30% of the lower branches, foliage and buds behind. Flick the lights back to 24/0 (24 hours of light and none of darkness), cross your fingers and hope for the best.
2. Take mature age clones: Cut off the ripe buds, replanting them, following cloning protocol. Flick the lights back to 24/0, cross your fingers and hope for the best.
3. Utilize the Marijuana Regeneration System, as taught in this book: Harvest your entire plant, hanging her upside down to dry. Then initiate the regeneration of the remaining stump, growing out 60 or so new tips (each ready to begin flowering) over the next 38 days. All up, not bad for a plant that, prior to the chop, had just 30 colas.
Now, let’s weigh the options:
Solutions 1 or 2? Forget ‘em! I don’t know about you, but I don’t like putting in all that love and care, all those nutrients and lumens, only to sacrifice up to 30% of yield. Nor do I cherish lopping ripe buds for a possibly ill-fated cloning attempt when they could be put to better use; too much wasted goodness. There is no doubt that the first two methods may produce new growth—a good 50% chance, by my estimate. Yet the question is this: At what cost? In both instances, harvest is severely compromised (with corresponding reductions in yield) and you are left with a mutilated mess to dry.
Solution 3?
That’s more like it. A full harvest to enjoy plus the potential to regenerate 60 new colas in the same pot. It’s a no brainer. In fact, it’s just like magic!
It may sound far-fetched, but the reality is anything but. This book is about refining existing wisdom