vicious bee
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Alright put the children in another room because this is a ,"A sick twisted grafting experiment". I got the idea from reading a thread by zero.kewl.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=150185&highlight=root
He takes a root and grafts a top onto it creating the "zero.kewl" cloning method. So I start thinking about grafting. Surfing the web. I find some amazing stuff. Weed plants with one type root and five different top strains. I start getting ideas. We all know how when you first plant seeds it seems to take forever for the plant to gain some decent size. In my searches I found a youtube video about vineyards. They took a small top (Scion) and grafted it to a large root stock. The plant exploded into growth and grew a whole vine in one year. I'm thinking, what if autos in the beginning had this explosive growth? So I started a little experiment. The first picture is is two trays of Diesel Ryders, which are not doing to well I believe due to really cold temperatures. The five on the right will be grafted. The ones on the left are controls.
The next picture shows all the plants to be grafted, the plants they will be grafted to and a three of Diesel Ryders that are a few weeks away from being done. As you can see my yield on these is pitiful but it gives you an idea of what to expect.
The Blue Streak nub on the right will take three plants and the twisted looped Ducksfoot will take two. There's an excellent guide on grafting here:
http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=G6971
I'm doing the Blue Streak nub first. I'm using a side graft on all my grafts because it seems easiest to do. I used a normal razor knife wiped down with alcohol. The next picture shows two of three side cuts.
Next showing the nub and two of the three scions inserted. You have to line up the barks(actually the inner tissue, read the paper in the link).
Now I show all three plants on the nub stock. I used nursery tape to tape the whole thing up.
Here's another view of the three grafted plants with them labeled
Here's the Ducksfoot with the scion inserted
And here's two scions taped and labeled on the Ducksfoot stock.There's one on the left and one on the right.
What's interesting about this? Well for one thing maybe the larger stock will help the autos gain size quicker. Also on the female Blue Streak stock are some male and female scions. On the male Ducksfoot are also male and female scions. I suspect that what ever is male will stay male and whatever is female will stay female. I wonder will the auto Blue Streak stump die off before the Diesel Ryders are done? Will the autos grafted to a non auto Ducksfoot still be auto? I believe they will. Now I need to list possible modes of failure. First I've never grafted anything before. Thats a big one. The Blue Streak was cut several days ago and I just hadn't gotten around to getting rid of it. You can see it looks green and healthy but who knows. The Ducks foot two days ago had lots of male flowers on it. I cut them off and was trying to reveg. If my attempt fails maybe some one without so many problems could make it work.
I wonder if you saved your auto stocks from your last grow could you add new smaller plants and have the fully grown root system give a boost to the new plants? That's primarily what this is about. Should know some of the answers to these questions in two months time.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=150185&highlight=root
He takes a root and grafts a top onto it creating the "zero.kewl" cloning method. So I start thinking about grafting. Surfing the web. I find some amazing stuff. Weed plants with one type root and five different top strains. I start getting ideas. We all know how when you first plant seeds it seems to take forever for the plant to gain some decent size. In my searches I found a youtube video about vineyards. They took a small top (Scion) and grafted it to a large root stock. The plant exploded into growth and grew a whole vine in one year. I'm thinking, what if autos in the beginning had this explosive growth? So I started a little experiment. The first picture is is two trays of Diesel Ryders, which are not doing to well I believe due to really cold temperatures. The five on the right will be grafted. The ones on the left are controls.
The next picture shows all the plants to be grafted, the plants they will be grafted to and a three of Diesel Ryders that are a few weeks away from being done. As you can see my yield on these is pitiful but it gives you an idea of what to expect.
The Blue Streak nub on the right will take three plants and the twisted looped Ducksfoot will take two. There's an excellent guide on grafting here:
http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=G6971
I'm doing the Blue Streak nub first. I'm using a side graft on all my grafts because it seems easiest to do. I used a normal razor knife wiped down with alcohol. The next picture shows two of three side cuts.
Next showing the nub and two of the three scions inserted. You have to line up the barks(actually the inner tissue, read the paper in the link).
Now I show all three plants on the nub stock. I used nursery tape to tape the whole thing up.
Here's another view of the three grafted plants with them labeled
Here's the Ducksfoot with the scion inserted
And here's two scions taped and labeled on the Ducksfoot stock.There's one on the left and one on the right.
What's interesting about this? Well for one thing maybe the larger stock will help the autos gain size quicker. Also on the female Blue Streak stock are some male and female scions. On the male Ducksfoot are also male and female scions. I suspect that what ever is male will stay male and whatever is female will stay female. I wonder will the auto Blue Streak stump die off before the Diesel Ryders are done? Will the autos grafted to a non auto Ducksfoot still be auto? I believe they will. Now I need to list possible modes of failure. First I've never grafted anything before. Thats a big one. The Blue Streak was cut several days ago and I just hadn't gotten around to getting rid of it. You can see it looks green and healthy but who knows. The Ducks foot two days ago had lots of male flowers on it. I cut them off and was trying to reveg. If my attempt fails maybe some one without so many problems could make it work.
I wonder if you saved your auto stocks from your last grow could you add new smaller plants and have the fully grown root system give a boost to the new plants? That's primarily what this is about. Should know some of the answers to these questions in two months time.
Thanks for posting this, I was going to do the same with standard strains to keep a flavorful mother =)
