Light Addict Tries To Get Grafting - Target Of One Mom With 15 Strains!

Hey and Welcome Toddosh :) also welcome Canna Montana almost missed ya!

So honestly this grafting isn't that tough and I expect with straight forward female to female and non flowering graft success percentage to come in at 85% or so, maybe even higher! Just using nothing but a swift cut and quick firm bond, seems the surest way to get success! Well that and humidity tent is a must.:)
My current damaged fluxes will all be getting chopped up for some fun today or tomoz! My one biggest flux tried to repare its breakage and although a touch unflattering to the eye she has a good ten + limbs already so I'll keep her training up until I've got 20 or more viable limbs ready.
This is the key for me and this attempt, anybody not informed on my fluxing style just hit the quick guide to fluxing link in my SIG :). I'll use my new young version of this even frameworked style, for the base and because fluxing splits all the limb structure into even levels throughout the plant. It should make my attempt at so many on one plant, quite simple! I'll just have to grow out all donors to the point where they're limb structure matches up with mommy! :)
 
Hey, just a thought, but...

Have you ever tried scraping away the outermost layer or two of two stems (on different plants), then placing them in direct contact at the wound site for an extended period of time? I'm wondering if they'd heal as a unit. And, if so... Could you then simply cut away the remainder of one of the plants and achieve your graft that way? If feasible, this would (I'd think) prevent possible dying off of the graft during the all-important healing phase.

This might not work, lol. I just happened to think of some of the cloning I've done in the past via the air layering technique where I (or, rather, the future clones ;) ) grew roots while the branch was still attached to the mother plant and receiving nutrients.
 
OK so I've tonight free after work at 11 to put some work in getting my kitchen spot sorted for my grafting projects! So I'll update tonight or tomoz with more grafts, these are specifically for sculptures, so some fun looking plants coming soon!

Oh and they're going to be on young small plants, from young donors! :)
 
:ciao: LA! Looking forward to your next round. :)

The one I have that survived is doing well. Growing tall, but she is staying kind of thin. I might try top her and see if I can get some more bushy to her.
Do you think that would stress a grafted girl too much?

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Canna my friend you know how rough I get with my girls lol, I got fed up with my light height in my cupboard so supper cropped the crap out of my first graft as she's now almost a tree on her own! I'd top away my dear as its taken well so its just another limb to me!
Soon with these ones I'm doing tonight and next few days are going to be trained so hard and bent all over, not what most would do with grafts but heck I like to push it :)

Another week maybe two and I'll be going for the big one! At least 15 strains on the one momma! :) if I get my other bean order in time then 20+ :) I'll actually do it in 2 phases and just do one side at a time of the flux base! Should be fun! ;)
 
Light Addict said:
Canna my friend you know how rough I get with my girls lol, I got fed up with my light height in my cupboard so supper cropped the crap out of my first graft as she's now almost a tree on her own! I'd top away my dear as its taken well so its just another limb to me!
Soon with these ones I'm doing tonight and next few days are going to be trained so hard and bent all over, not what most would do with grafts but heck I like to push it :)

Another week maybe two and I'll be going for the big one! At least 15 strains on the one momma! :) if I get my other bean order in time then 20+ :) I'll actually do it in 2 phases and just do one side at a time of the flux base! Should be fun! ;)
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You certainly have the right attitude and ambition my friend! I have no doubt you will achieve a monster.

I did LST this graft girl, I went out to check on the graft point and it seemed to be pulling a bit too much, so I loosened it up some. I don't want to take a chance on the first survivor. LOL

I will probably go ahead and top it though.

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I would love to see you succeed, bro. Not just for its own sake... I have been known to keep pepper plants indoors as houseplants - they occasionally produce a pepper or two, and can turn into awesome "bonsai tree" looking specimens that appear to be decades old after just a couple years. It'd be neat to have multiple types of peppers on the same "tree."

Err, back to the cannabis show ;) .
 
Yes lol my first effort took and then a other not long after! Its quite easy to be honest lol. Just follow the golden rules I've already posted a few times on here and ya can't really go wrong!
As said give me a cpl of weeks and then I'll be grafting on mass :)

I'll get some pics later tonight up of my successes nice and close and unbound wetc. ;)
 
Dayam Tortured Soul, those make me want to try it...and I can't eat peppers. :laugh:

Lovely pics, cannabis or not.

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Well folks we've been at it again and have it housed in a kitchen cupboard and its a small spot and the cfl is 30w so new environment for my grafting attempts! We shall see how theefferct and adjust as required :)

Double graft of 2 separate strains onto a Amherst Sour D :)
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As promised my previous successful attempts:)

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Then the many headed momma to be sacrificed soon to having her limbs lopped off and new strangers limbs popped back on! If it works I'll have to scream She's Alive! She's Alive! :)
 
Doh! Forgot momma
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I love how the grafts look! Mama is pretty cute herself! :bravo:
 
Hey TorturedSoul lol :) nope that's my fluxing style of training and you only top a flux 3 times even if you had 100 limbs :) it really is the perfect base for multiple grafting :)
 
Light Addict said:
Hey TorturedSoul lol :) nope that's my fluxing style of training and you only top a flux 3 times even if you had 100 limbs :) it really is the perfect base for multiple grafting :)
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Err... Sorry, I got confused by the term "flux" - one assumes that no soldering materials are actually used, lol? I take it that it's just your pet term for "FIM" - which is, apparently, just someone else's pet term for "topping?" I generally try very hard not to top a plant. I'm more the drill sergeant type (IOW, merciless training ;) only without the forced, err, haircuts). But it seems to work well for you.

I hope your latest grafts take, BtW.
 
Cheers my friend, fimming is when you take half the top off to create multiple tops of one spot, whilst well topping is topping lol. Yet fluxing is honestly my training style and was me developing it on from main lining which was to simple. The folks on here went away then came back after a debate and claimed it a new style of training so my fluxing styles was born :)
 
Whatever works. I tend to lump all forms of topping together in my mind, as they all remove material from the plant.

I do like the symmetrical plant style, though. It looks unnatural as <BLEEP>, of course - but results are what matter.
 
TorturedSoul said:
Whatever works. I tend to lump all forms of topping together in my mind, as they all remove material from the plant.

I do like the symmetrical plant style, though. It looks unnatural as <BLEEP>, of course - but results are what matter.
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Love it lol and yup I top once to get two points to send left and right and then once you've reached the size of flux you want you top just the two main ends once more to even the limb structure out. Then each limb is just one bud :)
 
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