flabbyone
Well-Known Member
I have not done a graft before and all I know is that it is possible to do and have a general idea of how to do it. Not only that, but this is grafting a sick plant so I am not sure what to do here.
I have a buddy who is growing more or less under my instruction. (It is a long story why I need to help him so much but I do.) He had two plants in a Waterfarm bucket. One of the plants had leaned slightly on against the drip ring and got a soft spot (stem rot I presume) a couple inches from the hydroton pebbles. The plant still looks good, but I know it is going to die shortly. This is the plant I want to try to save.
He also has a male that he has been milking pollen from. He has enough pollen from the plant to impregnate half the country and it is getting close to the time it would start to die, although it is still looking healthy. This would be the root system I would want to use.
Is it going to work is my first question and what would be the best way to do the graft? Would I be better off trying to root it rather then graft it? It really only has 5 nodes and no shutes yet so I can not clip a fresh growing shoot, only be able to lop it off above the soft spot.
Any idea's?
I would just start this plant over, but it is the only seed from this strain that we have.
Thanks all in advance. You could be saving a strain for us.
I have a buddy who is growing more or less under my instruction. (It is a long story why I need to help him so much but I do.) He had two plants in a Waterfarm bucket. One of the plants had leaned slightly on against the drip ring and got a soft spot (stem rot I presume) a couple inches from the hydroton pebbles. The plant still looks good, but I know it is going to die shortly. This is the plant I want to try to save.
He also has a male that he has been milking pollen from. He has enough pollen from the plant to impregnate half the country and it is getting close to the time it would start to die, although it is still looking healthy. This would be the root system I would want to use.
Is it going to work is my first question and what would be the best way to do the graft? Would I be better off trying to root it rather then graft it? It really only has 5 nodes and no shutes yet so I can not clip a fresh growing shoot, only be able to lop it off above the soft spot.
Any idea's?
I would just start this plant over, but it is the only seed from this strain that we have.
Thanks all in advance. You could be saving a strain for us.