Root Clone Test - pictures

**Lo'pan** · 01-24-2010, 09:57 PM

I cant wait to see if you pull anything out of that rootball! Sub'd and in for the long haul!

**Drr** · 01-24-2010, 10:03 PM

http://www.scribd.com/doc/14571756/T...annabis-Sativa

Here is a good read about the biotechnology of cannabis..

download it

**That 5hit** · 01-24-2010, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by Hobbes

Weeks to months later I was looking for a bucket and found hundreds of shoots in my root clone bucket. I planted two and threw the rest out. The plants grew fine and I forgot about them, just a couple more clones.

Looking at that bucket full of clone shoots I paused and thought: "Who the fuck would want hundreds of clones? And it takes forever, back to the bubbler." I assumed, and did until recently,

Since I brought up root cloning and made the claim that it works I see it as my responsibility to prove the claim. In this thread I'll track, with pictures, root cloning trials until we have a technique developed for regular success. I'm hoping the first trial so I can be done with this.

This test is going to be like watching sod grow, perhaps not as interesting. I'll check the roots every week or so and post some pics if there's anything to see.

i trust that this works - it will be cool to watch it -
and thanks for being the type of person that walks and talks it - thats shit is important - so many make claims and never back them up what you are doing is cool shit dude regardless on how long it take - this is just cool shit to be apart of

**bleedintears** · 01-24-2010, 10:34 PM

sick.
I think i might try this.

Just harvested some killer bud.
But it was a bagseed.
so genetics are unknown

**Hobbes** · 01-24-2010, 10:35 PM

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Anyone who wants to run parallel trials please post pics and keep a journal in this thread, the more people trying the more chance of proving the method. This thread is open to all.

After reading the Plant Tissue Culture write up several times Root Cloning seems to work on the same principles but uses a much rougher technique - the garden not the lab.

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**AquafinaOrbit** · 01-25-2010, 12:50 AM

Very interested in if this actually works. Pretty crazy a root can get enough energy in complete darkness to grow a plant but I figure at worse I waist 1sq/f of my house and a couple gallons of soil so I'll be doing this for sure once my current grow finishes.

**NewGrowth** · 01-25-2010, 01:07 AM

Ok I'm going to try this with the super skunk I harvested today, I just keep it moist covered, warm and dark? Seems like it would just compost . . .

**That 5hit** · 01-25-2010, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by NewGrowth

Ok I'm going to try this with the super skunk I harvested today, I just keep it moist covered, warm and dark? Seems like it would just compost . . .

this is what i was thinking

**MuntantLizzard** · 01-25-2010, 12:06 PM

I would like to try this with White rhino, im in reveg now(DWC), which takes weeks and months anyway. Speed isnt everything. So Hobbes, Do you thing this could work for a set of thick DWC roots? I know what i would do with a 100 clones, Spread the good stuff around. imagine a 20 dollar 1/4 of rhino.

**Hobbes** · 01-25-2010, 12:40 PM

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" Do you thing this could work for a set of thick DWC roots?"

Yes, so long as they are adventitious roots.

"Adventitious roots arise out-of-sequence from the more usual root formation of branches of a primary root, and instead originate from the stem, branches, leaves, or old woody roots."

So we're looking for newer pulpier roots growing out of woody roots - most likely 2nd and 3rd order lateral roots but I'd keep the 1st order lateral as well. Definitely not the tap root. Remember to separate the roots - I just ripped them apart but with a bunch of hydro roots you could use scissors.

This is going to be a great experiment for learning about the much ignored root system.

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