Grafting?

[canniwhatsis]

Yep,.... it's more for those of us who are limited on plant count tho,.... This way I can have just one single mother with all my strains on it.

It would be interesting to see what happens when flowering a grafted plant, but that's for a later date in my garden,... for now I gotta get rid of mother plants and open up space/plant count for veging! :hippy:

[canniwhatsis]

New addition to the family! :hippy:

Vannilluna! The graft has started showing signs of new growth and no longer requires the humidity bag, I'll take the tape off in a couple more day's and see how the scar looks.

[bigsby]

Nice addition. Is that tape anything special? Any issues damaging the skin of the plant when you remove it?

I don't think this concerns given your standing with the state but with that hires picture I can lift your finger prints right off of the image...

[canniwhatsis]

The tape is just electrical tape,... I've used medical tape too,.... No problems removing any of it just yet.

As for the other thing, they already know who I am and where I live..... it's a downfall of filing all the paperwork to make it legal

[EvilCartman]

New addition to the family! :hippy:

Vannilluna! The graft has started showing signs of new growth and no longer requires the humidity bag, I'll take the tape off in a couple more day's and see how the scar looks.

Nice!
Congrats on your continued success! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Meanwhile...back at the ranch.

Learned one thing I shouldn't do.
I used a clothes-pin around one of the adjacent stems, pinching the plastic wrapping the graft. Wanna guess what happened?

Things were lookin' real good for a few days. :dance:
Noticed today the danged thing had wilted, horribly. Seems the growth of the adjacent stem yanked the graft clean out of its little notch.

<sigh> Lesson learned. Seemed like a good idea, at the time.

Mission: FAIL

[canniwhatsis]

Keep hackin at it,.... I'm only slightly above 50% success

This time I did obviously a really small graft, used tape like I've done on the other attempts, but for the humidity bag I used a small ziplock freezer bag that was propped up by neighboring branches.

Seemed to have worked out better this time, only took about 5 days for the slight wilting to stop and new growth to begin.

Another thing I noticed was both the host and the graft bled just a little after I cut em, so there was some good juice flow, I believe I had just watered both of them, but I'm not certain that made a difference.

[malus69]

Grafting in general is a very interesting concept and I would like to try it too at some point but I'm not sure about the results. I'm quite positive though that the DNAs don't mix to create a hybrid. It would either continue producing what it used to be in every grafted branch or one would dominate over the other and transform the whole plant into that dominating strain.
Not sure though, I base my theory on the fact that my grandpa once grafted a lemon branch into a mandarin tree (took cuttings from the lemon tree, sliced the mandarin skin open and attached the cuttings with some kind of special wax kind of thing) and the tree became a lemon tree in time. Years later he still has it in his yard producing juicy awesome smelling lemons and not mandarins or a hybrid of the two! I could ask him for more details but I'm quite positive that he would go crazy if he knew I was growing MJ lol. :hippy:

Just the 2c of a noob!
:thumbsup:

[khyberkitsune]

"I'm quite positive though that the DNAs don't mix to create a hybrid."

It does happen. This is how we produce many different species of rose bush and several hybrid fruit trees (plumcot, pluots, etc.)

[canniwhatsis]

"I'm quite positive though that the DNAs don't mix to create a hybrid."

It does happen. This is how we produce many different species of rose bush and several hybrid fruit trees (plumcot, pluots, etc.)

While I'm sure there is some possibility of a genetic drift as shown in other plants during flowering and fruiting,.... I'm using it for a mother? Would the cuttings off of my mom incur any of the traits from either the host or the graft?

I can say with certainty that the host genetic hasn't been warped by the 2 (at the time of cutting clones) other strains that had been grafted! :hippy: :stoned:

I have my first AK-47 taken from the grafted mom in flower now. So far she is acting exactly like the original AK47 mom in every way. Need 8 more weeks to tell if there's any other differences! imp:

[redaaron]

This is my guess... if you attach cannabis to cannabis you will have flavor mixing.... attach a tomato branch to your plant you will just get a tomato.
The tomato branch will use the cannabis plant as a host. The genetic compounds are much too different for cannabis traits to be passed on.

Like I said, its just a guess I haven't seen enough results or had a chance to test my theories.

And when grafting, I skip the humidity bag and the v-cut and just take a square cut branch and some duct tape, bandaid it up and wait a couple days in my dwc. after a week i remove the tape and "whammo" no problems. But of course youll want branches of very similar diameter and size. It really is just a vein.