1 Plant 6 strains (GRAFTING) - 6 fold plant increase, staying in your plant llimit

pon · Dec 20, 2012

Subbed, hurry up with some more pics

ru4r34l · Dec 20, 2012

Highocaine said:
I've been thinking about this lately.. Apple growers graft to produce different strains overall, I guess maybe you're crossing the plants with eachother every graft..

Apples growers graft to keep the same strain (DNA) around as the seedlings can be totally different from it's parents, the OP is grafting to grow multiple strains from one root stock.

regards,

OGEvilgenius · Dec 20, 2012

curious2garden said:
Grafting makes very good sense with trees and possibly some perennials but it makes little sense in an annual. But good luck, I wish you the very best on this experiment. It's always a good idea to try out your ideas and see how they work. I'd be interested to hear if the graft takes and if so what your harvest looks like and how long that takes. Further how do you plan to feed these 6 different strains? Do all of these strains have the same feeding and environmental requirements?

Good luck with this

It makes a fair bit of sense for mom maintenance in states where plant counts are low IMO.

PeyoteReligion · Dec 20, 2012

I am also interested in keeping an eye on this. Good luck!

TheRainman · Dec 20, 2012

Check this out! Due to the wonderful questions, it got me searching the net for answers, and I found this:

I have yet to dissect the entire story, but this should be a must read for anyone interested in this. Here's the full story

This is exactly WHY I love playing in the grow room. My mind is reeling with ideas on this! ...ohhhh, I need a bong hit, this stuff is just so fricken FUN!

robert030188 · Dec 20, 2012

So what its saying basically is since BB is your main stalk, the added foliage might inherit its characteristics....lets say BB's yield?

Trousers · Dec 20, 2012

Frankenplant, awesome.

TheRainman · Dec 20, 2012

robert030188 said:
So what its saying basically is since BB is your main stalk, the added foliage might inherit its characteristics....lets say BB's yield?

I would to think that. My goal on this subject, would be to take a clone of of a thriving scion (cutting attached to another root stock...see drawing below)

My hope and from some of what I read on the net, states the scion will take on some of the characteristics of the root stalk. What that could be, is unknown. BUT, I will take this clone (red/blue - see drawing) and grow it next to another clone from the original Mother plant, then start documenting like crazy. This is where the fun is.

Nizza · Dec 20, 2012

some people think its better to graft your female plants onto a strong male plant

Ninjabowler · Dec 20, 2012

robert030188 said:
So what its saying basically is since BB is your main stalk, the added foliage might inherit its characteristics....lets say BB's yield?

I was watching a program where they tried the same experiment trying to gain extra yield on low yielding, high thc producing plants and their results were not what they had hoped for. I know that hes not planning to flower her, well not yet anyway. The flowering frankenbeast looked pretty cool though. Sometimes its not about yield, sometimes is about self gratification. Hope shes still doing well. Good luck.

LazyDog · Dec 20, 2012

Hey RainMan, cool project!
I saw this on youtube just recently, and it seems right on track with your experiment:
[video=youtube;QGhWLaTopL4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGhWLaTopL4[/video]
I had a Great Uncle who created a "fruit cocktail" tree from about 4 different citrus trees back in the 60's.
I could see these becoming incredibly popular with small-scale med folks.
Awesome!

TheRainman · Dec 20, 2012

LazyDog said:
Hey RainMan, cool project!
I saw this on youtube just recently, and it seems right on track with your experiment:
[video=youtube;QGhWLaTopL4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGhWLaTopL4[/video]
I had a Great Uncle who created a "fruit cocktail" tree from about 4 different citrus trees back in the 60's.
I could see these becoming incredibly popular with small-scale med folks.
Awesome!

LazyDog!!!! That's it! This is the best video on it too. Thank you for posting this!

TheRainman · Dec 20, 2012

Ninjabowler said:
I was watching a program where they tried the same experiment trying to gain extra yield on low yielding, high thc producing plants and their results were not what they had hoped for. I know that hes not planning to flower her, well not yet anyway. The flowering frankenbeast looked pretty cool though. Sometimes its not about yield, sometimes is about self gratification. Hope shes still doing well. Good luck.

I couldn't have said it any better! Thank you.

Btw, she looks good, but one of the cuttings (Super Skunk) is looking pretty weak along with Tahoe OG. I'll keep all
posted.

robert030188 · Dec 20, 2012

Alright im doing my mother plant like that

TheRainman · Dec 21, 2012

robert030188 said:
Alright im doing my mother plant like that

It's day two and the BB looks better than she ever has. It's amazing the amount of light that the entire plant now receives (Now that I tied her down). I will continue to do this to a couple other Mothers. It will be a good project to monitor. The newly attached cuttings are not taking. These three may be 86'd if I don't see hope by tomorrow. I will put three more of the same strains on, but perform a different cut/attachment. If so, I'll update with pictures.

Ninjabowler · Dec 21, 2012

TheRainman said:
It's day two and the BB looks better than she ever has. It's amazing the amount of light that the entire plant now receives (Now that I tied her down). I will continue to do this to a couple other Mothers. It will be a good project to monitor. The newly attached cuttings are not taking. These three may be 86'd if I don't see hope by tomorrow. I will put three more of the same strains on, but perform a different cut/attachment. If so, I'll update with pictures.

Give em some time, they might come around. You may want to try doing one at a time next try so its not so hard on her. Hopen for the best man.

TheRainman · Dec 21, 2012

Ninjabowler said:
Give em some time, they might come around. You may want to try doing one at a time next try so its not so hard on her. Hopen for the best man.

Yeah agreed. I also started a Purple Romulan on top a Pineapple chunk base. Everything I did this time, was different (cut,sealer, etc). I took your advice just stuck with one. Thank you!

MaineWeed · Dec 21, 2012

TheRainman said:
It's day two and the BB looks better than she ever has. It's amazing the amount of light that the entire plant now receives (Now that I tied her down). I will continue to do this to a couple other Mothers. It will be a good project to monitor. The newly attached cuttings are not taking. These three may be 86'd if I don't see hope by tomorrow. I will put three more of the same strains on, but perform a different cut/attachment. If so, I'll update with pictures.

First let me say WOW great project! Question for you....are you cutting your piece to be grafted on a branch node spot? I would think that your cutting would be more apt to take to the graft spot. Just a thought, keep us posted.

robert030188 · Dec 21, 2012

I would try what he ^ said seems logical that healing would be quicker at a internode

Rob Roy · Dec 21, 2012

Just a suggestion but maybe try to graft one at a time to reduce potential stress.

edit : dOH! I see somebody already suggested this. Good luck.

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