Hello! I’ve been working on a grafting project for some time, and a lot of people have asked me how, here is how. This is what I do it’s super simple.
Ask me any questions and I’ll do my best to answer, I have more than 20 graft unions on my current “hryda plant” as a friend calls it.
^this means if I have a one plant limit I am still growing up to 20 cultivars.
Tips and things I’ve noticed (I’m no stientist)
High quality rootstock is important, shitty genetics aren’t going to take as well.
99% of grafts without high humidity die. Put some mist in a bag and cover the whole new branch and wound including your plastic clip
The higher a graft is on a plant the more atypical dominance will effect the growth rate, but being high on the canopy can lead to high temps, or low humidity, or even just to high of a PFFD will kinda cook the new branch. Partial shade for a couple days is suggested.
Let your graft breath for a few hours a day after the wound is healed, watch for PM or just disease in general on the leaves in the bag.
Nice work
Ive done this in a simular fashion. I had to trimback the roots on the mother every six months or so. I got seven different strains to take. I lost it after 2 years when i went on vacation.
This is awesome and you make it look easy. This would certainly help with plant count. Now my big question have you ever flowered a grafted plant because that would be hella cool and would love to see that. Like one of those mixed fruit trees
Interesting but my question/concern is how much more yield can you achieve compared to just vegging a large plant with training? I’ve studied grafting with non cannabis plants years ago in particular pear trees but as you know marijuana can be fickled. The upside would be more than one strain and def sounds like a fun project… have you taken her all the way through flower?
Could also the rootstock influence the graft some way?
I have a Royal gorilla, really finicky… showing a poor nutrient uptake…
So yesterday started to practice grafting following these topic’s instructions…
Did a Gorilla graft on sativa/indica rootstock and a Sativa/indica graft on gorilla rootstock.
First things first, lets see the healing… Being succesfull, those are the observations I wanna make:
the rootstock influence on gorilla’s nutrient uptake and the flowering time and quality comparing the grafted and non grafted clones …
I’m burning inside to start a chimera ^^ It’s opening new fields of observations.
Same questioning with the hungry SD, but I’ve somehow already the answer on large scale all around me : wineyards. They are using quite intensively rootstock “graft-holder (transliterated)”. I will burn some blunts around in the wineyards around to observe, it’s early in the season its perfect ^^
I started to read some stuffs on it, it’s quite fascinating. As far as i saw for now, the mechanical influences and the limitations of a rootstock “graft-holder/porte-greffe”:
yield but by the size and shape of individual fruits (so i guess it extend to flowers)
vigor : if the rootstock is slow, everything else will be. It’s used in both sense in wineyards for the grade.
obviously everything related with roots : resistances, adaptation to hot/cold weather, colonization
But i don’t see anywhere a modification of the uptake. Doesn’t look like to play, or at least to be considered as a productive change in regard of others boosts.
We are stoners, let’s verify directly with the most hungry elites of our living intercontinental genpool ^^
I think i will do it both sense :
hungry the fuck SD root stock with Jack Herer graft (she flo happy almost with water lol)
ultra lean JH with hungry as devil’s dog SD ^^
Both are strong in opposite dept, i’m curious about it too. But you know, the hashygranny tech but in wineyard style : looking like young grafted clones prepared 24/0 for a ride.
yes rootstock is super important. ive been told males can cuz females to herm but i am yet to see that happen at all. uptake is def gonna be dependent on your rootstock, just like in fruit trees you are gonna need a GOOD rootstock
In RQS site, where they say their Gorillas are “very tolerant to high doses of nutrients” I read “we selected for potency and forgot about the lazy roots”…
There are many roots mechanisms for nutrient search and I think that some soil adapted variety may be more efficient then a mineral or hidro system adapted cultivar…
As I work with organics, a good soil adapted rootstock may benefit the graft…
But this is the side quest haha I’m really aiming a mother plant and If works out, to have only two varieties grafted for flowering… Legal limited… thats a way to have some choice.
