How long can I keep plants in veg

johnny.doefarmer · Jan 30, 2026

I got about five or six clones left from about 10 of them. The leftover ones I'm thinking about keeping in veg till this summer and growing outdoors. Is it possible just to keep a small light on them and keep the temperature around 50 to 60° will they still live but won't grow fast. Will it be okay. Has anybody had experience doing this

Cfin · Jan 30, 2026

Keep them as stock plants and root the cuttings between now and spring

johnny.doefarmer · Jan 30, 2026

Cfin said:
Keep them as stock plants and root the cuttings between now and spring

How long can you keep a strain like that. Can you keep it going for many years or will its strength eventually run out. I have a OG KUSH plant that grows fast and is easy to grow I want to keep alive for a long time. I have cloned it many times. The first time I took a clone it was 3 weeks in flower. I got to it late. It took a long time to switch back to veg.. like two months. Then I took clones off it. I am getting ready to harvest off it soon. The clones cause they to do long to switch back to veg look like they was bonsai. There is a lot of branches.

Cfin · Jan 30, 2026

After awhile the cuttings will be thin and harder to root. Rotate your stock plants. After you've taken cuttings two or three times use several of the clones to produce new stock plants.
If this is your grow room I'd suggest getting some mylar emergency blankets to line the ceiling and walls it will reflect the light evenly and raise the humidity.

Ninjadogma · Jan 30, 2026

Biggest issue youll run into doing a long veg is keeping the roots happy. Depending on how long we are talking, theres issues that pop up that you have to address. If youre using good watering technique, you probably wont face biome collapse but the medium becomes more and more compacted with each subsequent watering and the roots occupy more and more space in the medium. At some point you have to intervene with some root pruning to stimulate new growth and repotting to restore a good loam. You even have to water and feed an old plant differently because it raches a point that it becomes a soilless grow. Eventually, roots replace all of the dirt and its just a pot of roots.

johnny.doefarmer · Jan 30, 2026

Ninjadogma said:
Biggest issue youll run into doing a long veg is keeping the roots happy. Depending on how long we are talking, theres issues that pop up that you have to address. If youre using good watering technique, you probably wont face biome collapse but the medium becomes more and more compacted with each subsequent watering and the roots occupy more and more space in the medium. At some point you have to intervene with some root pruning to stimulate new growth and repotting to restore a good loam. You even have to water and feed an old plant differently because it raches a point that it becomes a soilless grow. Eventually, roots replace all of the dirt and its just a pot of roots.

Ya I was wondering if I could just pull them out of the small pot and cut back the roots and put new soil back in same pot. I have saved pepper plants like this in the past. When spring comes they come to life.

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