Could be another brain fart on the way. ..but we can blame @duke for feeding me the mushy peas on this one...
thinking about alternatives to grafting multiple strains onto a rootstock...
Surely it would be possible to take a couple of different strains, snip sonw cuts from them and rather than rooting each one individually, splicing or tieing them together so they all form a single knuckle and root as one?
Thoughts? Anyone fancy a go at it? Time for industrial air freshener to clear the farty smell?
Multiple strain cuts into one?
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, Mar 16 2017 07:04 PM
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Posted 16 March 2017 - 07:38 PM
Could be another brain fart on the way. ..but we can blame @duke for feeding me the mushy peas on this one...
thinking about alternatives to grafting multiple strains onto a rootstock...
Surely it would be possible to take a couple of different strains, snip sonw cuts from them and rather than rooting each one individually, splicing or tieing them together so they all form a single knuckle and root as one?
Thoughts? Anyone fancy a go at it? Time for industrial air freshener to clear the farty smell?
hi yes i have done that before with trees and just twisted them around a central slightly bigger stem and if you strip a line from top to bottom a few mm wide and expose the cambium layers and cut a corresponding slot in the bigger trunk and try and have atleast i side of each alined perfect with the cambium layer and use grafting wax or in my case often gorilla tape to stop moisture entering the wound while it grafts but imo you better of with removing the roots from the scions and having a single rootstock in a smaller pot as imo if the mother has to have a very large pot it defeats the point thats why i plan mine as a bonsai to save much needed space,brainfarts are cool!peace
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Posted 16 March 2017 - 08:01 PM
Isn't that still grafting though? As opposed to rooting cuts as one so they form a co-joined new root system?hi yes i have done that before with trees and just twisted them around a central slightly bigger stem and if you strip a line from top to bottom a few mm wide and expose the cambium layers and cut a corresponding slot in the bigger trunk and try and have atleast i side of each alined perfect with the cambium layer and use grafting wax or in my case often gorilla tape to stop moisture entering the wound while it grafts but imo you better of with removing the roots from the scions and having a single rootstock in a smaller pot as imo if the mother has to have a very large pot it defeats the point thats why i plan mine as a bonsai to save much needed space,brainfarts are cool!peace
Granted that it may start with multiple stems if they dont merge as they grow
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Posted 17 March 2017 - 06:13 PM
I've heard about this Budgie, in theory you could have plant with each top from a different strain.
Don't ask me how its done as don't have a clue but have read about it somewhere.
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Posted 18 March 2017 - 05:51 PM
Class!!! very fricking interesting
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Posted 18 March 2017 - 06:05 PM
I like a good experiment so I'm gonna give it a shot (or should that be a shoot 
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Got some sexed kush vars ready for a bit of snipping and a sacrificial phatter stemmed top use as the central cut to splice onto.
Just thinking the best way to secure them without constricting any root dev. If one rots off they could all get screwed I'm thinking.
)Got some sexed kush vars ready for a bit of snipping and a sacrificial phatter stemmed top use as the central cut to splice onto.
Just thinking the best way to secure them without constricting any root dev. If one rots off they could all get screwed I'm thinking.
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Posted 18 March 2017 - 06:07 PM
Gonna have a go lol going to use my zambeza strains! One can only try can't one!. Be a while till mine ready to take cuts but I'll try in an aeroponic propagater
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Posted 18 March 2017 - 06:13 PM
Gonna have a go lol going to use my zambeza strains! One can only try can't one!. Be a while till mine ready to take cuts but I'll try in an aeroponic propagater
Nice one fella
Get plenty of pics won't you 
Im really hoping it works though, then phase two is mixing up a colour pallete of strains and flowering the whole thing off at once
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Posted 18 March 2017 - 06:18 PM
Nice one fella
Im really hoping it works though, then phase two is mixing up a colour pallete of strains and flowering the whole thing off at once
I'm going to order the granddaddy purple strain soon so if it does work that would really be a nice edition lovely colour to that one
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