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serialkiller

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I recently watched a video on youtube of a plant with several strains grafted onto it. I'm sure some of you have seen it too...

They used a pretty standard method of grafting to accomplish the same end goal, I chose to use a different, less used style of graft, called the Approach Graft. Actually I am using a slightly modified method- I am grafting a rooted clone (blueberry) onto an established plant (OG18xSkunk), once the graft takes, assuming it does, I will remove the roots of the clone leaving it attached only to the mother to grow. I have not decided if I will remove the top of the mother above the graft or not yet, I'll decide that later.

So here we see the BlueBerry clone and the OG18XSkunk mother, then the 2 cuts, made at nodes, then the graft wrapped up in grafting tape and sealed with clonex, after a few days of keeping it sealed with clonex I will switch to using petroleum jelly
 

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serialkiller

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Wow no comments, I figured people would be all over this. What attracted me to it is the ability to have more strains and less plants.
 
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Sabzi

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Hi
the interest is there, I think it´s just one of those periods when everybody is doing something else.
That was a very nice idea! If it goes on other plants why not Cannabis.
So what is the cutting going to give? a mix or what?
Again very nice idea the possibilities are wow!
 
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serialkiller

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Really the idea is less plants, and stock maintenance. We all know that when LEO comes in the door every plant you have just makes it worse, so instead of having 4,5,6... mothers why not just have 1 with all the different strains you want coming out of it, its still only 1 plant. The genetics wont mix or make any sort of hybrid or anything crazy, it'll just keep growing, new growth from the clone will be blueberry, new growth from the mother will be OG18XSkunk. It will continue to live normally. The ides is simply to maintain less plants but the same number of strains.
 
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Sabzi

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serialkiller said:
Really the idea is less plants, and stock maintenance. We all know that when LEO comes in the door every plant you have just makes it worse, so instead of having 4,5,6... mothers why not just have 1 with all the different strains you want coming out of it, its still only 1 plant. The genetics wont mix or make any sort of hybrid or anything crazy, it'll just keep growing, new growth from the clone will be blueberry, new growth from the mother will be OG18XSkunk. It will continue to live normally. The ides is simply to maintain less plants but the same number of strains.
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Can a branch be taken from a flowering plant?
 
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serialkiller

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No, first that is not a simple cutting, that is a rooted clone that is showing new growth before the graft is attempted, to use an un-rooted cutting you can not use this technique, you must use a wedge style graft where you cut off the end of the mothers branch and insert the cutting into it. In that case the same rules of cloning apply, you can use a flowering plant but your chances are much less and even then only the first few weeks of flowering. To use this method the clone MUST be rooted and growing or there is a 0% chance of it working.

Really it should only be attempted with 2 healthy vegging plants, not a flowering plant OR a un-rooted cutting (unless your using a different style graft, then the un-rooted cutting is required)

Assuming this works I have no plans of flowering this plant, only to attach more of my strains onto it and keep is as a mother for as long as possible before finally budding. Can you imagine a single plant that I can keep my entire strain selection going on- BlueBerry, White Widow, The Church and of course the original mother, the F1 hybrid OG18XSkunk, what a sight that would be once flowered.

Another thing to mention, you dont actually have to use a clone at all, you can use another full grown plant but there is a slightly higher chance of failure since the hormones in the recently rooted clone is telling it to spend energy on root production (the graft) as well as branching/leaf production, where as on a established plant the rooting hormones are less active and its concentrating its growing on leaf/branch production.
 
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Sabzi

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serialkiller said:
No, first that is not a simple cutting, that is a rooted clone that is showing new growth before the graft is attempted, to use an un-rooted cutting you can not use this technique, you must use a wedge style graft where you cut off the end of the mothers branch and insert the cutting into it. In that case the same rules of cloning apply, you can use a flowering plant but your chances are much less and even then only the first few weeks of flowering. To use this method the clone MUST be rooted and growing or there is a 0% chance of it working.

Really it should only be attempted with 2 healthy vegging plants, not a flowering plant OR a un-rooted cutting (unless your using a different style graft, then the un-rooted cutting is required)

Assuming this works I have no plans of flowering this plant, only to attach more of my strains onto it and keep is as a mother for as long as possible before finally budding. Can you imagine a single plant that I can keep my entire strain selection going on- BlueBerry, White Widow, The Church and of course the original mother, the F1 hybrid OG18XSkunk, what a sight that would be once flowered.

Another thing to mention, you dont actually have to use a clone at all, you can use another full grown plant but there is a slightly higher chance of failure since the hormones in the recently rooted clone is telling it to spend energy on root production (the graft) as well as branching/leaf production, where as on a established plant the rooting hormones are less active and its concentrating its growing on leaf/branch production.
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I think I get it now!
This is really perfekt for me as I only plant once a year in this way I don´t have to start from seed every time!
But I have to clone up a new mom every second or third year right?
 
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serialkiller

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I've heard of plants as old as 5 still being productive mothers, personally I think 1-2 years at most for a mother is what the average small scale grower could hope to achieve.
 
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ive heard of mothers being 20 years old

anyways, this is awesome. in the wine industry everything is grafted and I often wondered how it could apply to marijuana. you have shown a great idea!!! a multiple strain mother...classic!
 
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bigneil422

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This is great stuff. Keep us posted on what the outcome is (succes/failure/knowledge). I read about grafting marijuana in Robert C Clarke's book;
Marijuana Botany: The Propogation and Breeding of Distinctive Cannabis

By Robert C. Clarke

This book is pretty in depth for the time it was published. Guy wrote this as his college thesis, graduated and went on to publish this (most likely to pay back those damn student loans!). Even writes briefly about grafting cannabis to hops (I do like the idea of buds and suds...):-P
 
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