Rooting the top of a still-growing plant

I once read somewhere where someone suggested trying to root the top of a still-growing plant so that it would have 2 seperate rootstocks.

They then concluded that maybe they could do a simple scroog or something with that plant.

What do you think would happen if this experiment was tried?

Are you talking about taking a cutting from the top? Or applying rooting gel to the top of the plant and bending it down into soil?

homebrewer said:

Are you talking about taking a cutting from the top? Or applying rooting gel to the top of the plant and bending it down into soil?

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I think it could work, I once added about an inch of sand to my bucket and the portion that got buried grew large roots just under the surface so yes I believe it would work however, I am not sure it would be benificial.

akgrown said:

I think it could work, I once added about an inch of sand to my bucket and the portion that got buried grew large roots just under the surface so yes I believe it would work however, I am not sure it would be benificial.

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Seems like if you wanted two growing sites out of soil, it'd be easier to have two plants.

I believe what your talking about is called 'Multiple Rooting Sites' or something of that nature. I know for short it is called MRS. Something I've been looking into aswell. Here, check this out. It was roaming around this site so I copied it and saved it for future refrences. So this is not my work at all, but found here on RUI somewhere. Hope it helps.

1. How to mrs a plant

OK guys just in case you are new or have absolutely no clue what im talking about im gonna toss this one out there for the people in the cheap seats...

you keep hearing me and JumboSwisher talking about MRSing a plant and how it increases yield.. here is the basics...the only catch is you have to know how to clone a little (don't really have to be good at it really) and you have to have the guts to cut up your plant (not really cut it up but you will get the gist shortly)

MRS stands for Multiple Rooting Sites

you will be basically creating a entirely stand alone rooting structure and feeding system for your plant which will supplement the plant in such a way as to allow it to constantly run with its nutrient uptake going full throttle 24/7 (this will also help with the metabolizing of micro nutes and allow more of them to enter the system also just by design)

all you have to do is break out your rooting hormone and your scissors and pick a bottom branch that is nice and fat and low hanging ... something that would normally make a killer clone

now we are going to sacrifice this future monster clone for the sake of the plant..

you take this branch and instead of clipping a few nodes back and then using it to clone ...you cut off the end of it creating the same 45 degree angle you would normally make on a clone and scar it the same as a clone also... just like its the end of a clone getting ready to put it in your clone box or growing medium

you will now have a branch with a clone end sticking out where the bud site would normally be...
now the same as cloning you need to wet it and dip it in rooting hormone ( powder .. gel ... whatever)
and you will want to take this butchered branch and put it at least a inch into the soil below the plant bending it down into the dirt and making sure it wont pop back out again

what you have just done was make a alternate rooting site for the plant and as soon as it takes hold in about a week or 10 days you will see a sudden burst of vigor out of your plant and you will want to cut your nutes back to half strength

this is the only drawback and one of the major money savers for the high priced nutrient buying crowd out there...

with twice the rooting zone now occupying the pot it is utilizing more of the soil mass and also pulling out locked out nutrients the original root structure couldn't hope of getting so it will fill the plants gas tanks up pretty quickly and will also utilize the new incoming nutrients on a much more efficient scale which makes for less nutes left in the soil ... less nutes needed to maintain the plant at peek... and a plant that is getting just as much as it can handle on a full time basis increasing yield to huge potential...

all i can say is try it ... buy all means prove me wrong if you can... i have been using this technique for about 2 years now since i thought it up in a stoned stupor one night while taking clones and it has not failed me yet

This is somewhat of what I was thinking, I may try this on my runt to see how well it works.

akgrown said:

This is somewhat of what I was thinking, I may try this on my runt to see how well it works.

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Legit! Make a journal and take some pix or something so I can watch! please! Or if you have a journal to this particular expierament (I'm to baked and can't figure out how to spell that shit right now, sorry, I feel like a dumb) would you mind tossin up a link? I'd love to tag along!

Y'all need to look up ground layering and air layering.
You'll be pleasantly surprised...

That would work well to thanks for that link and check my sig for the link. I am going to the dispensary this sat and will pick up some rooting hormone. My plants could use extra roots.

baaamalaaam said:

Y'all need to look up ground layering and air layering.
You'll be pleasantly surprised...

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layering, horticultural practice of propagating a plant by rooting a branch before severing it from the mother plant. Typically the branch is bent and a section that has been slit or broken on the underside is covered with soil and held in place by means of stakes or pins. Trench layering induces new shoots from a length of buried branch. In mound, or stool, layering, the many shoots of a closely cropped young plant are heaped with soil. Air (or pot, or Chinese) layering is used when the branch cannot be bent to the ground; peat moss or some other suitable rooting medium is attached to a cut place on the branch. Layering is used mostly for multiplying plants not easily propagated from cuttings. Some plants propagate naturally by layering, e.g., raspberries, strawberries, and chrysanthemums.


Layering
Method of propagation in which plants are induced to regenerate missing parts from parts that are still attached to the parent plant. It occurs naturally for drooping black raspberry or forsythia stems, whose trailing tips root where they come in contact with the soil. They then send up new shoots from the newly rooted portion of the plant. For soil layering, lower stems are bent to the ground and covered with moist soil of good quality. For air layering, a branch is deeply slit and the wound is covered with a ball of earth or moss and kept moist until roots develop; the branch is then severed and transplanted. Layering was practiced by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks.

Taken from: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Ground-layering

That shit's dope dog! I want to try this sometime!

This is some great info. Im sorry I havent responded till now, but I just got all my equipment in, I havent really done this and cant afford to experiment ATM but it would be awesome if someone kept a grow journal on this!