rundlescunder
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What's this grafting business my friend was telling me about and would there be any benefit to doing that vs cloning
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GrowerbabeAZ
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Hey there! Grafting is when you take a piece of one plant, say a gorilla glue and add it to another plant, say and skunk. You would be growing 2 different types of weed on 1 plant!!!
rundlescunder
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Is there any point or should I just take the piece and make a clone
Zephyrs
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You need a shit Ton more horticultural knowledge before ya even think about that holmes.. Learn how the plant grows and how growth is dictated by root system health only.. grafting is way beyond any rookie's skill level.
rundlescunder
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I was just asking about it holy shit
Zephyrs
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Ok it's all good man, but cloning a plant is way more user friendly than trying to graft one into another. Just saying
farmingfisherman
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Are you growing currently? If so and you have the plants available go for it! Experimenting is learning, I've bust limbs off and taped them back together and they lived. Only thing I'd suggest is clean blades and cuts and think about what type of cuts you are making. Perhaps think about splicing ropes together. Good luck!
Zephyrs
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Yup, very true.
rundlescunder
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That's true, but the only question I have left is grafting more beneficial than cloning. I'll probably just clone if the only perk is multiple strains on one plant
rundlescunder
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Ya I've got this muffin and some smaller ones. I don't know if I would graft I just wanted to see if it was good for anything as google just tells me about growing multiple strains
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rundlescunder
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Thank you it didn't make sense for it to really do much I thought I would ask
xtsho
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Just make clones.
rkron0413
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The benefit i see from grafting is you can have a single mother with multiple strains to take clones from
rundlescunder
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i never thought about that, thats a good reason honestly
GrowerbabeAZ
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So it’s really for novelty because you can have more than one strain on just 1 plant! That’s pretty cool. But I Guess that’s really subjective. Cloning would be what you do when you want to make more of a good plant. You take pieces and grow them into full grown plants. I clone all my good phenotypes to make sure I get a carbon copy of the plant!
maranibbana
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grafting would give you a benefit in the sense that you have a solid root system, and you use that rootstock to graft various phenos onto to create a single mom to harbor multiple strains in an environment where you can't have many mom plants... or I could see it being beneficial if you wanted to use the root stock of one system and then the genetics in growth/flower of another to create a nice frankenstyle plant that would preform better with the donor rootstock that you graft to vs its own.
other than that I don't see a benefit imo other than being fun and rewarding to accomplish...
outside of cannabis I think it holds a lot more value maybe... idk
rundlescunder
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Man that's sounds too sciency at this point for me, but thank you I'm gonna sit on this knowledge for prolly 8ish months before I try it
Jointsmith
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Hi there!
Horticultural worker here, grafting would certainly be possible with cannabis. In fact it is common practice with lots of fast growing crops... tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers etc. It's usually done at the seedling stage, with varieties know for vigorous growth and disease resistance used for the rootstock and varieties with desirable fruit as the scion.
It would be kind of a pain for the home grower to maintain the right conditions I guess, but it could take off in places where it's legal. I'm not sure whether nurseries there can sell cannabis seedlings but I think plants with multiple stains grafted on would be a big seller in states with limits on plant numbers. Also strains could be grafted onto rootstock selected for outdoor hardiness for local conditions.
Horticultural worker here, grafting would certainly be possible with cannabis. In fact it is common practice with lots of fast growing crops... tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers etc. It's usually done at the seedling stage, with varieties know for vigorous growth and disease resistance used for the rootstock and varieties with desirable fruit as the scion.
It would be kind of a pain for the home grower to maintain the right conditions I guess, but it could take off in places where it's legal. I'm not sure whether nurseries there can sell cannabis seedlings but I think plants with multiple stains grafted on would be a big seller in states with limits on plant numbers. Also strains could be grafted onto rootstock selected for outdoor hardiness for local conditions.