rerooting mothers, trimming stem.....

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dannyboy1012

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ok so i got a bunch of mothers that ive been taking clones from and well they got too tall, and have more than a foot of stem with no branches and i was wondering if i can just dig the plant up, cut the stem so the plants shorter, throw it in so rooting hormone (if i really need it...stem should just start growing new roots automatically right?) and let it grow again....they still have a lot of branches at the top and i would just be throwing them into flowering in a couple weeks anyways, just didnt want to waste so much space when my clones are so short, and didnt want to just throw away my mothers if i didnt have to.....so whats up? will it work?
 
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mockingbird131313

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dannyboy1012 said:
ok so i got a bunch of mothers that ive been taking clones from and well they got too tall, and have more than a foot of stem with no branches and i was wondering if i can just dig the plant up, cut the stem so the plants shorter, throw it in so rooting hormone (if i really need it...stem should just start growing new roots automatically right?) and let it grow again....they still have a lot of branches at the top and i would just be throwing them into flowering in a couple weeks anyways, just didnt want to waste so much space when my clones are so short, and didnt want to just throw away my mothers if i didnt have to.....so whats up? will it work?
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Try taking some supple top stock and graft it to the bottom stem. Then your stem will become a producer of clones and eventually top the tree out. I am not sure this will work, but I am about to try it myself. It seems to work with most plant species.
 
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dannyboy1012

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how do you graft them to the bottom? is it basically planting them near stem and they root together or what i dont get it??
 
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dannyboy1012

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ok so i did some reading up on it, so basically you what, make angled cuts and just fit branches together, or cut out like a knotch and then the opposite on the branch and fit them together? how do you keep the branch in just the right spot? but besides that, can i just cut my stem off at the lowest branch and replant?
 
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