Call Me Crazy

So lets say I'm vegging a plant and when I put it in the flower room it stretches 5 ft. Is it possible to cut a section of that main stem out, plant heals itself through natural or nutrient aided means. Thus creating a shorter plant? Is this possible....

yes if you cut the top section of the plant it will be a shorter plant.

yes. it called grafting.

you'd have to be a pro or damned lucky to do that consistently though i bet.

reduced yields, hermies, and random jabberings to follow no doubt...

yes it will still grow, but instead of wasting those bud sites, supper crop the plant and bend it over then tie it down. the side branches will stretch.

i think they meant like in the cartoons when a cat has an axe and takes a chunk outta the tree the mouse or whatever is hiding in....
then the top part falls on the stump....shorter tree...

like that...it's grafting.

yep. you could run a sog with lots of different strains and have a nice even canopy yum.

ChubbySoap said:

yes. it called grafting.

you'd have to be a pro or damned lucky to do that consistently though i bet.

reduced yields, hermies, and random jabberings to follow no doubt...

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i dont believe this would be a proper or beneficial use of grafting. usually people graft plants so you can grow multiple strains on one plant. there are more efficient and more effective ways to control height during the stretch. tying (lst) or bending (super cropping) are more effective and will not harm your plants.

yes. it is common fact. I agree.

but my answer is correct for the question at hand.
can i chop the middle out of my stalk and graft the root stock back to the remaining top?
yes. yes you can.

i don't know why you would, nor would i need to understand...but that's the answer


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Personally...if anyone did that, i would be curious to see if the removed stem section could be rooted back out...
i mean i know you can....i just want to SEE it
lolz

ChubbySoap said:

i think they meant like in the cartoons when a cat has an axe and takes a chunk outta the tree the mouse or whatever is hiding in....
then the top part falls on the stump....shorter tree...

like that...it's grafting.

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Wouldn't grafting be joining two plants together? I don't see where the OP mentioned using the cut, just making the cut to lower the height?

And I do agree, lst or super crop... too much stress on your plant by topping while in bud could cause it to morph

MomaPug said:

Wouldn't grafting be joining two plants together? I don't see where the OP mentioned using the cut, just making the cut to lower the height?

And I do agree, lst or super crop... too much stress on your plant by topping while in bud could cause it to morph

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Dittoooooooooo

marijuana.john.doe said:

So lets say I'm vegging a plant and when I put it in the flower room it stretches 5 ft. Is it possible to cut a section of that main stem out, plant heals itself through natural or nutrient aided means. Thus creating a shorter plant? Is this possible....

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perhaps i have misread....

I take my leave in shame.

ChubbySoap said:

perhaps i have misread....

I take my leave in shame.

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i read it both ways. i think your interpretation is the intended meaning of the OP. but if you take what was written at face value it seems like the OP is just asking about cutting the top section of his plant. hence my flippant original response.

ChubbySoap said:

perhaps i have misread....

I take my leave in shame.

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No I believe you are correct. I'm not really going to try this in my highness i just wondered. thanks and + rep good sir

i don't think it would make a lot of sense to do that. how much time would be lost to the healing process? the op did say this would occur after the flower stretch so i predict nothing but a ruined plant. it's not like with regular grafting where you are only "injuring" the stalk, dude is talking about completely severing it. or maybe i misunderstood and he meant to still leave it partially attatched? either way i think this would do nothing besides cut most of the plant off from the root system when it needs it the most. i second the lst/supercropping suggestions.

Yes, grafting is using that cut to join plants. It's commonly used to speed up production of peyote about ten years sooner. Grafting is not possible with marijuana. You would probably want to fim, or train it, or scrog in the future. Also consider cutting veg period in half. A vegging plant will double to triple in height generally, so a shorter veg time would be a little easier/faster. Sounds like you had some downtime, couple wasted weeks, + 2 weeks to heal so months electricity/nutes. Of course none of these methods while in flower, and give er time to heal before switching light schedule as this is stressful enough especially right before flowering.

70micronboee said:

Yes, grafting is using that cut to join plants. It's commonly used to speed up production of peyote about ten years sooner. Grafting is not possible with marijuana. You would probably want to fim, or train it, or scrog in the future. Also consider cutting veg period in half. A vegging plant will double to triple in height generally, so a shorter veg time would be a little easier/faster. Sounds like you had some downtime, couple wasted weeks, + 2 weeks to heal so months electricity/nutes. Of course none of these methods while in flower, and give er time to heal before switching light schedule as this is stressful enough especially right before flowering.

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I love how people just say shit without even researching it.

Why not just grow the weed, grafting is very complicated. And if you have to ask about it you are not ready for it simple as that.

[video=youtube;QGhWLaTopL4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGhWLaTopL4[/video]

A simple Google search would have shown you grafting marijuana is possible, but I guess thats too hard.

a thread here on the forum....instructions for cloning.

https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/403595-how-easily-graft-marijuana-plant-4.html#post5276354

The power of research.