anymouse
Active Member
This wouldn't be particularly useful to most growers but it's a concept I've never seen anybody else mention so I figured I'd fire it out there. It might benefit a medical grower who can grow plants of any size he wants but needs to limit the numbers or a commercial grower that does not want to be caught growing more than 300 plants and become a first degree felon (as applies to FL law)
Some plants such as strawberries and grass (the kind in your yard) will reproduce asexually by growing a branch outward and when it touches the ground it forms roots there.
How about growing a plant and topping it until it splits into 4 branches. Then LST those until they reach 4 surrounding pots, the edges of one large pot, or multiple holes of a hydroponic system. Now snip the top off, hit it with some root hormone and place them into the soil.
Theoretically once the 4 ends are rooted you will see new stems appearing from the leaf nodes like you normally would with LST however the plant now has 5 root systems and 5 times the potential nutrient and water uptake. It's no different from growing 5 plants except that you technically only have one strange plant.
"I don't know why it grew like that, some genetic mutation from my breeding experiments when I tied each end down and bla bla bla techno babble bla bla pentametric fan"
If they still want to go to court with it your lawyer would probably call on a botanist to explain why a mangrove is a tree and not a forest and that your multi root plant has the same genetics through the whole thing, grew into the shape it is in and was not spliced from multiple plants, and if you cut a tree down the middle (analog to cutting the stem between each of the root systems) you are MAKING 2 trees, it was not 2 trees from the start. Since this is not part of the reproductive cycle and these are therefore not actual runners you can't say they are offspring plants.
Of course the law has nothing to do with logic or what is right and wrong so you might want to consult a lawyer first if you're a legal medical grower.
Who knows, maybe it'll end up making a "super cola" or some crazy science fiction scenario.
I'm still experimenting around with conventional growing and have less than a dozen or so grows under my belt in my stealth box so I'm in no position to try this just yet but if anybody else wants to give this a shot, all I ask is you tell me how it went.
Some plants such as strawberries and grass (the kind in your yard) will reproduce asexually by growing a branch outward and when it touches the ground it forms roots there.
How about growing a plant and topping it until it splits into 4 branches. Then LST those until they reach 4 surrounding pots, the edges of one large pot, or multiple holes of a hydroponic system. Now snip the top off, hit it with some root hormone and place them into the soil.
Theoretically once the 4 ends are rooted you will see new stems appearing from the leaf nodes like you normally would with LST however the plant now has 5 root systems and 5 times the potential nutrient and water uptake. It's no different from growing 5 plants except that you technically only have one strange plant.
"I don't know why it grew like that, some genetic mutation from my breeding experiments when I tied each end down and bla bla bla techno babble bla bla pentametric fan"
If they still want to go to court with it your lawyer would probably call on a botanist to explain why a mangrove is a tree and not a forest and that your multi root plant has the same genetics through the whole thing, grew into the shape it is in and was not spliced from multiple plants, and if you cut a tree down the middle (analog to cutting the stem between each of the root systems) you are MAKING 2 trees, it was not 2 trees from the start. Since this is not part of the reproductive cycle and these are therefore not actual runners you can't say they are offspring plants.
Of course the law has nothing to do with logic or what is right and wrong so you might want to consult a lawyer first if you're a legal medical grower.
Who knows, maybe it'll end up making a "super cola" or some crazy science fiction scenario.
I'm still experimenting around with conventional growing and have less than a dozen or so grows under my belt in my stealth box so I'm in no position to try this just yet but if anybody else wants to give this a shot, all I ask is you tell me how it went.
