Grafting

rundlescunder said:

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

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It's not "too sciency" at all.

Take a stem from as non woody a place as you can. Make a cut in another non woody place
Align the cambrium as much as possible. Keep the cutting from drying out as it heals.

Two weeks should be fine.


And that's it.

rundlescunder said:

Thank you it didn't make sense for it to really do much I thought I would ask

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its worth a try so you can learn if you have a couple of plants to play around with. i sugest an indica and extreem sterility when trying it out, its loads of fun. i like airlayering like cloneing. you should maybe try that first and see how you go

Grafting is not just for slow growing plants. All my tomatoes are heirlooms grafted to strong root stock. I don't have any problems with soil born pathogens or nematodes.

Micro grafting can have sucess rates of 90 percent. Mine are commonly in the 70's.

I can't see where this technique would benefit herb though.

If you have plants with very superior growth characteristics in the roots you could take advantage of them.

Of course you can take advantage of existing roots..
If you can keep your graft moist and viable long enough for the graft to heal.

The Woodier the stems the slower the union so if you go down the trunk it takes far longer and may diminish any time you might save with an established root system