mellingwood91
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Greetings friends, today I am prepping to test a hypothesis.
I believe that a freshly germinated seed, with just tip of a taproot exposed, can be inserted in a crevice carved into the stem of an established plant,
and in a process similar to / identical to grafting, will fuse into the mother.
This would be beneficial for growing autoflowers indoors specifically in that you could take a photoperiod in veg as a super root system, bypassing the autoflowers need to "hurry and
dig".
For this initial experiment, I am going to be using a freshly harvested, transplanted Crystal Candy auto. It has already been stripped down to a short main stalk and 4 side branches. I have grafted in 5 strains. (Pictured)
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3 (the longer ones, obviously - DieselBerry, Witch Wedding?, Pink Mist) were done using slit/match/tape method (cut rootstock and scion end down middle so they look like this ==< >=== then fit them together, like ...?lesbians scissoring? if anyone can think of a better simile, I'll edit... those 3 are pretty droopy, which is to be expected, spraying with nutritive spray and hopeful.
The other 2, I'm using a dif graft method, which I thought of myself, which isnt to say that I'm the first, I've just never read about it but I'm sure it exists:
I cut the main stalk down to where its nice and wide, and theres the cavity in middle of woody stalk. I take a knife and open it up just a little more, and took the smallest little shoot from a side branch and fed it into the hole. These are absolutely thriving overnight with zero droopage (vasculation? is that right term?) also the clones pictured are JUST cheap root powder and soil and foliar spray. I havent lost a single on out of m. If i was using a propagator I always lose 20% but that just may be my fault. prolly is lol. anyway
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The seed I am using is the single seed I harvested from the Crystal Candy auto and a controlled pollination with a Super Sour male. I cannot find consistent data on mamas lineage, autos bred and stabilized from 2 autos have greater likelihood to produce autos with photos, but it doesn't matter if this comes out auto - im just doing an initial test..
the point of growing autos in this way on photoperiod indoor plants is that it allows you to keep a rootstock alive without flowering, yet getting flower off it.
I plan on keeping a few chimera mothers indoors this winter for the purpose of preserving genetics for next years outdoor, and itd be nice if I could manage to flower some branches in the same room in the process!
I believe that a freshly germinated seed, with just tip of a taproot exposed, can be inserted in a crevice carved into the stem of an established plant,
and in a process similar to / identical to grafting, will fuse into the mother.
This would be beneficial for growing autoflowers indoors specifically in that you could take a photoperiod in veg as a super root system, bypassing the autoflowers need to "hurry and
dig".
For this initial experiment, I am going to be using a freshly harvested, transplanted Crystal Candy auto. It has already been stripped down to a short main stalk and 4 side branches. I have grafted in 5 strains. (Pictured)
***
3 (the longer ones, obviously - DieselBerry, Witch Wedding?, Pink Mist) were done using slit/match/tape method (cut rootstock and scion end down middle so they look like this ==< >=== then fit them together, like ...?lesbians scissoring? if anyone can think of a better simile, I'll edit... those 3 are pretty droopy, which is to be expected, spraying with nutritive spray and hopeful.
The other 2, I'm using a dif graft method, which I thought of myself, which isnt to say that I'm the first, I've just never read about it but I'm sure it exists:
I cut the main stalk down to where its nice and wide, and theres the cavity in middle of woody stalk. I take a knife and open it up just a little more, and took the smallest little shoot from a side branch and fed it into the hole. These are absolutely thriving overnight with zero droopage (vasculation? is that right term?) also the clones pictured are JUST cheap root powder and soil and foliar spray. I havent lost a single on out of m. If i was using a propagator I always lose 20% but that just may be my fault. prolly is lol. anyway
*****
The seed I am using is the single seed I harvested from the Crystal Candy auto and a controlled pollination with a Super Sour male. I cannot find consistent data on mamas lineage, autos bred and stabilized from 2 autos have greater likelihood to produce autos with photos, but it doesn't matter if this comes out auto - im just doing an initial test..
the point of growing autos in this way on photoperiod indoor plants is that it allows you to keep a rootstock alive without flowering, yet getting flower off it.
I plan on keeping a few chimera mothers indoors this winter for the purpose of preserving genetics for next years outdoor, and itd be nice if I could manage to flower some branches in the same room in the process!