Grafting

[Windsblow]

Has anyone done any sort of grafting experiments? I have seen it done in other plants. Do you think it would yield more than jut one plant or would they just become parasitic and be more of a waste of time?

 

[Windsblow]

By grafting I meant sprouting to plants right next to each other then grafting the to main stems together then growing in a 3 or 5 gallon pot.

 

[Windsblow]

Nobody. The reason I ask is I am trying to double up my legal grow amount and i was thinking if I could graft them together I could grow twice as many plants.

 

[Stinkmeaner]

um...what? like siamese twins?

 

[Windsblow]

Like I pop 2 seeds next to each other and sprout them then tie the two little main stems together so that they attach themselves. Then put them in a poy large enough for two root balls and bam now I technically have 1 plant with the growth of 2. I know it won't be exactly like because of parasitic issues but I was wondering if anyone has done thisa and did it yield more.

 

[bamfrivet]

just putting them next to each other and tieing them together doesn't graft them together. all you have there is 2 plants tied together, still 2 plants not 1. Even if you were to really graft them, they would still count as 2 plants, not just one plant.

If you really want to graft them however, go to your local nursery and ask them for some grafting powder. After you get the powder you have to cut both plants down the stem to reveal the soft insides. rub the grafting powder (of liquid if that's all they had) and press the two together and wrap them up so they stay together. It will probably take a few weeks for the plants to securely attach them selfs to each other. There is more to it, but the people at the nursery should be able to explain it to you.

Like I said, this doesn't make one plant. It gives you two plants that are essentially glued together.

 

[TruenoAE86coupe]

bam is right, grafting is more like attaching a clone to another plant so that they use one root system, but produce more than one kind of bud. There was a video on here before on how to do it, can't find it now. The reason for doing this, and pretty much only reason is plant count, well and wouldn't it be cool to have one plant produce a bunch of different strains? Lots of work, but has been done.....

 

[Windsblow]

just putting them next to each other and tieing them together doesn't graft them together. all you have there is 2 plants tied together, still 2 plants not 1. Even if you were to really graft them, they would still count as 2 plants, not just one plant.

If you really want to graft them however, go to your local nursery and ask them for some grafting powder. After you get the powder you have to cut both plants down the stem to reveal the soft insides. rub the grafting powder (of liquid if that's all they had) and press the two together and wrap them up so they stay together. It will probably take a few weeks for the plants to securely attach them selfs to each other. There is more to it, but the people at the nursery should be able to explain it to you.

Like I said, this doesn't make one plant. It gives you two plants that are essentially glued together.

I understand what grafting is.... The question was not how it is done or whether or not my State has the ability to determine how many plant I have. My question was simply about yield and if any one has grafted the main stems of two plant.

 

[growone]

haven't done it, seen some posts on it, you split the stem on the plants and join
i think it would be one plant at that point, but 2 different bud sets, which could be useful
not sure if it's worth the work, might be worth an experiment or 2
after the graft has taken, it will look like one plant, probably wouldn't be noticed

 

[Windsblow]

haven't done it, seen some posts on it, you split the stem on the plants and join
i think it would be one plant at that point, but 2 different bud sets, which could be useful
not sure if it's worth the work, might be worth an experiment or 2
after the graft has taken, it will look like one plant, probably wouldn't be noticed

That's what I was thinking but didn't know if the yield would justify the effort. I have just planted 2 sets of sprouts I will do an experiment this next grow and see what it yields.

 

[bamfrivet]

I understand what grafting is.... The question was not how it is done or whether or not my State has the ability to determine how many plant I have. My question was simply about yield and if any one has grafted the main stems of two plant.

I was just trying to give you some heads up, that grafting the plants together doesn't make them one plant. You can clearly see that the plant has 2 stems.

Anyway, to your question. If you have a proper set up (enough lighting, ventilation, humidity, ect, ect.) then than your yield shouldn't suffer. The plants might take a little longer, since they have to recover from the grafting, but the end results should give you the same yield if the plant gets everything it needs.

I actually saw a post about a month or so ago, where a guy grafted branches of 3 different strains onto one plant, mostly for fun to see 1 plant growing 3 different strains of nug lol.