Rooting top of plant to create another root ball?

[Ocotillo]

I understand what you're saying. Sorry, we did get a bit side tracked with layering and more side tracked with cloning.

You want to try a plant with two bottoms and no top. The top will get buried and hopefully root. I'd say it's worth a try and I'd expect it would work. I think it would work because if you take a plant and chop it in half, the bottom half will grow more. I'd say it's the same if you bury it in soil. IMHO, roots are roots and will feed whatever needs it including all the side branches. I say go for it! If you don't I just may try it myself.

Again, excellent question and great picture. Do you do portraits?

My idea was not to create another plant or clone ... it was to increase the nutrient entry point ... two roots are better then one ...

I'm hoping when planted, the top of the plant will stop growing upward and to root itself ... then all the plant energy will go into the side branches ...

just wondering if the internal cell structure allows nutrients and water to move bi-directional inside the plant ... it moves up the plant, but can it move down? If so then this will work.

I will be working on this one ... will keep you posted

[ForgetClassC]

I'm pretty sure the french do this to produce their hemp. It makes the plant grow around twice as fast seeing as it has twice the feeding system.

-C

[Slevinkal]

First of I'm not gonna try this...
but only because I don't have the room to do so.


I would think that starting off with very young plant and bending it into a second pot as early as possible could be beneficial. Imagine a plant stretched out roughly three foot long with lighting above, below, and on each side.

If more light equals more growth is true and the plant is able to take in nutrients from both ends then I see this as being a win win situation.

And if not? Oh well. No mistakes, only lessons learned.

[nuglover]

i would love to see someone do this and document it. it would be a cool experiment. if i had room to do it i would try.maybe if i win the lottery i will build a expermental grow lab to try these things(hehe)

[captainendoe]

i have some bag seeds i just put in the ground. I have the room and i dont care about the bud as much as i care about a good ole fashion experment so look foward for a new thread.

[Treez81]

My idea was not to create another plant or clone ... it was to increase the nutrient entry point ... two roots are better then one ...

Im hoping when planted, the top of the plant will stop growing upward and to root itself ... then all the plant energy will go into the side branches ...

just wondering if the internal cell structure allows nutrients and water to move bi-directional inside the plant ... it moves up the plant, but can it move down? If so then this will work.

I will be working on this one ... will keep you posted

Would it really be moving up and down? The top would be a new "bottom" and nutrients would still move up. And from what I have read (although I'm no botonist) particles do move in both directions because at night the plant moves waste and other things to the roots. Although I could be way off on that.

[captainendoe]

plants have xleums and cambiums and/or some other words i can't pernounce let alone spell but the nutes do move up and down the plant through these diferent parts of the stem. I think the cambieum is just the dead part of the tree trunk in the center.

[captainendoe]

plants have xleums and cambiums and/or some other words i can't pernounce let alone spell but the nutes do move up and down the plant through these diferent parts of the stem. I think the cambieum is just the dead part of the tree trunk in the center. can someone who knows what the hell they are talking about steer me right

[TANKJR]

LMAO! "the French do it..." Well, there ya go! This is a funny and interesting thread...I only have a small closet, so I'm going to see what the Cappy flying W does with it..yea, I know what an endoe is....unfortunately:wtf:...we used to call them flying W's back in the early days of MX, and they were not a good thing...usually meant you lost that race...LOL!

I'm always interested in something that possibly makes a plant grow twice as fast....one of these days I'm gonna plug a cell phone charger into my plant and really put the hammer down on one....veg a day and then flower in four....o yea! It'll take longer to dry it than grow it....LOL!

I'll be watching for that thread, Cappy

Ya'll should be ashamed..makin fun of his spiffy drawing!

[Gatekeeper777]

If I were to do this with a plant. I would induce stretching to about 6- 9 inches between nodes. I would let her grow to about 36 inches tall then I would cut her in half using the top part for clones and the bottom more woody part for this experiment. I would strip away 3 inches of the plants outer layer away from her new to be root ball and then moisten with Superthrive and water then I would paste cloning jell all over the boo boo I would then either wrap tightly with wet paper towels or pull from planter and lay on her side. Re plant the root ball in a mound form then cover the new section to be rooted. keep warm and moist. But that's just me. I have heard of it being done. Increasing yield I'm not sure of I don't have the time or room.
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