[Budgie]

Ok. I asked about rooting cuts from multiple strains into one plant earlier. Not grafting, but rooting several cuts at the same time so they form a single, co-joined root system.

 

As it is a bit of an unknown I figured I'd put on my Doc Brown wig, protective goggles and lab-coat on, and have a little experiment.

 

a little background muzak

 

 

I've a couple of kushes on the go, Lemon, Power and White Fire (WiFi), all sexed as females and about ready to flip. The perfect time to take cuts. One of the WiFi babies I inherited was in a fairly poor/slow condition, but I stuck with her and brought her round. The problem being that it is too far behind the others to do her justice and she was going to have a cut taken and restarted. Then I had the Multi-strain brain-fart idea and figured I would give it a shot, topping her and using the top as the main stem for the cuts. 

 

So, here we go. Three different strains and I'll let the pictures do the talking

 

Equipment Prepped

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All the cuts taken and into water to stop any air-pockets/degradation while messing

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The Central Cut

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The Central and two side cuts before prepping 

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Cut and scraped so the Cadmium exposed all round the bottom half inch or so

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The two side cuts sliced and scraped

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Coir pellet is soaked, expanded, poked, dusted with Great White Funky Fungi

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Dipped in Hormone Rooting Powder

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Dipped in Great White Mycho/Trycho Benefical Bacteria powder

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I ummmed and ahhhed for a while figuring out the best way to keep these together, but in the end went for the simplest option of sticking them in the same hole to the same depth.

 

Main Cut inserted into rooting pellet

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First of the side cuts inserted

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The final side cut inserted

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All together

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Some copper wire coiled round as extra bondage, and the pellet and cuts squeezed together to help seal things

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Into a gumby pop-bottle propogator/humidor (thanks to @Forest for this little invention )

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Ready to go

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This is now sitting in a corner of the groom, fingers crossed that it works out as expected. I expect to have something to show good or bad in about a week. If it does all root as one, then phase two is to veg her up and flower her out to see what the results are compared to the original donor plants and if they act as one plant, or a mad woman with multiple personality syndrome

[Dutchy]

Love it   

[2scoops]

Good stuff Budgingtons

[Budgie]

They didn't make it

 

Checked the other day after it'd been in a week or so, and they were all starting to rot. Either too much taken from the central cut or just failed to root and turned to mush.

 

Oh dear, what a pity, never mind. 

 

I'll try again another time is all, unless someone else want to have a go and beats me to it

[Bubonik Chronic]

Bummer dude,oh well if ya dont try ya dont get init.

[2scoops]

Mine are buzzing away good style in those little brown bottles Budgie, i`ve not had a problem doing them this way just yet, only used water nothing else like rooting hormones, i did read water is all you need so i went that route.

[bigbadbillybob]

i wonder if covering the base of the pot with half the plastic bottle deprived the root zone of oxygen.

ive used these bottles before, but just the top part into the coco/ soil etc.

or maybe you were just unlucky.

was worth trying tho, he who dares and all that

[Loco91]

Good Job !