many stains one plant?

[dam612]

Im high and pondering "advanced mj cultivation" techniques. I was wondering if anyone has had multiple strains in veg and ever experimented with grafting marijuana plants? kinda like apple trees. grafting a plant would enable you to have multiple strains on one plant. Anyone crazy enough to try?, Ide assume the only thing you would need is plants with the same flowering period (unless you want a few diff harvests a few weeks apart). How about a true indica/sativa hybrid lol? One tall cola and a bushy dense bottom? haha idk im just throwing it out there. Seems more like for the hobby grower, but could be cool.

 

[phyzix]

Grafting is somewhat pointless with marijuana because you will have to grow a root stock plant in addition to the scion.

So you need to grow two plants and then cut one down to attach to the other...see the issue?

You go from two plants to one plant with a graft that may or may not take. In the end, you lose out on yield compared to just raising those original two plants.

 

[SCARHOLE]

If you graft an auto to a reg would the auto veg like a reg?

 

[growingforfun]

i read a post on here a while back bout a dude that did it. it was a medical patitant so had liek a 12 plant limit or somthing. anyways what he did was have a mother plant with like 5 diff plants grafted so he could have several differant clones of other strains with only 1 mother plant and still have 11 plants left for his medical needs. so yes it is possible and to me seems a great idea if your into that kinda thing

 

[figtree]

i read a post on here a while back bout a dude that did it. it was a medical patitant so had liek a 12 plant limit or somthing. anyways what he did was have a mother plant with like 5 diff plants grafted so he could have several differant clones of other strains with only 1 mother plant and still have 11 plants left for his medical needs. so yes it is possible and to me seems a great idea if your into that kinda thing

This would be the only reason I could see grafting cannabis. Ingenious!

 

[Brick Top]

Any grafts would retain their complete genetics. each graft would remain exactly the same genetically as if it had been grown normally, so there would not be any crossing of strains regardless of how many different strains might be grafted to a plant. One problem with grafting various different strains onto one plant is that unless they are all very, very similar genetically, when it comes to flowering times, they will finish at different times and cutting different parts of the plant off for harvest will eventually have negative effects on what is left and needs more flowering time.

It can be done if for some reason someone actually needs to do it but for the most part it is a gimmick or a growing-game to play. Other than what was mentioned about keeping a mother/donor plant to take clones from where the plant(s) will be kept in a vegetative growth phase grafting is not all that useful to cannabis growers.

 

[SCARHOLE]

Any grafts would retain their complete genetics. each graft would remain exactly the same genetically as if it had been grown normally, so there would not be any crossing of strains regardless of how many different strains might be grafted to a plant. One problem with grafting various different strains onto one plant is that unless they are all very, very similar genetically, when it comes to flowering times, they will finish at different times and cutting different parts of the plant off for harvest will eventually have negative effects on what is left and needs more flowering time.
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Good answer! plus rep
Ive been asking the same thing on this forum an others an never got a good answer..
Mel franks old growers guides dont mention this.
You are a ninja!!!

 

[Brick Top]

Good answer! plus rep
Ive been asking the same thing on this forum an others an never got a good answer..
Mel franks old growers guides dont mention this.
You are a ninja!!!

Knowing a thing or two is one of the few benefits of aging. The longer someone survives the more opportunity they have to learn. They only have to take advantage of the opportunity to its fullest.

Sometimes I think that is why God knows so much. It is not that he just knew it and instead only knows things because he's been around for so very long that he has just learned so darn much.