Grafting cannabis ....

WeedFreak78

WeedFreak78

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The only real viable use for grafting with cannabis, in the context of how most of us cultivate, is in mothering plants, for the reason stated, one mother with multiple strains. All other grafting of cannabis, IMO, should only be for experimentation or fun..it's not really a viable alternative.

Grafting to climate acclimated root stocks could be an advantage in outdoor growing, there are scientific report of doing this with fruiting trees, where grafts are done on native root stocks that are adapted to the soil conditions, side by side test show the acclimated root system produces more and better fruit because it can uptake nutrients better than a non-regional root system, but it would be harder to do with an annual like cannabis because of the short life cycle. You would have to flower out a plant, reveg it first, then once it's back in a veg state do the graft, wait for the graft to take and heal..then it would be ready to go again. Just the reveg/graft and healing process could take a couple months, where you could have a fully vegged ready to flower clone already. The people I have seen do a root graft on cannabis all stated it was done just out of curiosity and a larger, just as healthy plant could have been grown from clone in less time( no healing/acclimation time associated with grafting).
 
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mainliner

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its called 'drifting' and it doesn't happen.

im not sure but i think it happens a tiny bit, if at all iv read.

and the chance of hermy is zero as you do it in veg.

(drifting the genetics from the graft i meant ^^)


there's a cafe in Amsterdam which used to have one in his shop with about 20 different strains on ...... All with labels hanging from each strain lolol ..... Mad world !!





still looks really complicated though .
 
vostok

vostok

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abe supercro said:
make it advanced with a contribution your-highness
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10 days is the time you have to make the scion take to the rootstock, 10 days, in that time most members here would have successfully grown out as many clones as they ever have wanted, come day 12, .. 90% plus of clones in the bubbler would be wanting potted to their own pots, this grafting I admit does have it uses like for storing a damaged twig on another plant, until its big enough to clone, I got my first gfaft back in the 80's with 3 or four differing strains aboard, ...but it does make use of some male roots that would go to the trash, but then again its easier just to turn them female..
Its also how 90% of the fancy plants you see in stores are created, via grafting,...even the simple apple tree these days is but a graft of some old old old ...mother ...

but for me its horto-cryo, but its all tight ass lipped when I'm around, you can hear them frezzer lids being shut real quick ...lol

wink wink ...boyz
 
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mainliner

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its a good idea for someone whos got room for two plants .

they can have their main plant in one room and a multi strained mother in another room .

just pick and choose which cutting you want ever time you wanna grow .


simple
 
Fease

Fease

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Can we please keep opening repeated threads over and over. Grafting , 24 hour cycle vs..., defoliation... Light??? It's my favorite thing to displace already good threads with others.
 
vostok

vostok

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Fease said:
Can we please keep opening repeated threads over and over. Grafting , 24 hour cycle vs..., defoliation... Light??? It's my favorite thing to displace already good threads with others.
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Thats the biz we are in like a good dynamo on a cheap bike, you can only power what you are hooked too, and yes there is a cycle
you start with
"where do you get seeds?", and maybe end 49 years later with "I need a holiday?"
 
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mainliner

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Fease said:
Can we please keep opening repeated threads over and over. Grafting , 24 hour cycle vs..., defoliation... Light??? It's my favorite thing to displace already good threads with others.
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please feel free to give your side of the topic :)
 
Fease

Fease

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I came off a little strong, sorry. Whatever's clever. Nothing wrong with grafting or other interesting canmabis growing techniques.
 
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High Grade Only

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anzohaze said:
Grafting of plants first started in south carolina. And no they will not share genetics if you graft an orange branch to an apple tree the 1 branch grows oranges and the rest will be apples edit maybe not SC directly but my buddies great great uncle was the first one around to do it a long time ago
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uhh i could have sworn grafting came about somewhere between the first and sixth century in china with fruit trees. Fruit barring trees scions that are grafted onto rootstock fruit faster than those grown from seed and also allow for uniform production of phenotypes. Also, most fruiting trees are very difficult to root from cuttings alone.

Mind you, we are talking about Trees, not an annual flower. There does not seem to be any advantage to grafting cannabis when discussing it's agricultural production. It's cuttings root fine on their own, and frankly having a mother plant with multiple varieties grafted to it just sounds like a labeling nightmare.
 
ozman

ozman

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Well I know its a old thread,but I did the whole grafting thing.Once I got proficient at it,I ended up grafting 3 different strains on to one plant.I then had a plant with four different strains on it.
I was able to cut clones off of them for a very long time.1363997566323.jpg 1363943195749.jpg
The process itself isnt that hard just a lot of things need to work right the first time.I had my share of failures till I figured it out.It was easier making grafts instead of having so many mother plants.
 
TubeAndJar

TubeAndJar

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Nice job! So in your opinion, it was worth the extra work/time? I would think you'd have to grow it out a decent amount before cloning which requires space/time that I would also think would be about the same as 4 smaller mothers. It's very interesting to see this, thanks for posting.
 
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