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I'm going over the idea of grafting cannabis, and first I would like to note that there is a practicality issue with the idea. First of all, we need to establish that grafting cannabis is a novelty, a cool ass plant with multiple strains growing on it. Why would one want such a plant?, to save space?...maybe. I could grow seven strains faster than a person could nurse a single graft into any kind of production configuration. Grafts take time to become established, I've grafted tender plants, and the scion lived, and even flourished, but when said and done, the lifesan of the plant didn't allow time for the graft to actually " take ", or become established with the stock. I will accomplish the grafting demo as promised, however, it will be an exercise that simply uses the cannabis as an example of how grafting works, as I see no productive practicality. What I do hope is that this exercise will give someone the confidence to apply the techniques to a more practical application such as reproducing dad's favorite apple tree and putting the same in ones own abode, or grafting multiple fruits to a common cultivar, which I am completely familiar with, but in my reasonable experience the fruit produced by these unions never compared to that of the scions parentage, basically it all had a common taste. This unlikely phenomina ( spelling ) was discussed in depth, and a conclusion as to why this occured was never reached, as it makes genetic sense that the fruit would not change in any way. The theory is to align the cambium layers of a scion to a suitable rootstock, allowing for the passage of water, nutrients, cells, ect. sufficiently until the plant mends and actually increases the area ( vascular ) in which the phloem and xylem are transporting these same items down and up respectively. When I say these are transporting items, I mean they are allowing for the transportation OF items, by providing a pathway or pipeline for these items to move from one area of the plant to another. I hope my words aren't confusing anyone, and I'm open to discussion for the sake of clarification and any other reason for that matter. It's been a long time, and my terminology has suffered, hopefully I'll have time to get my butt back in some material that will remedy my poor choice of words at times. In any case, I'm getting my shit together to graft, I'm figuring out what will be best to seal these grafts with, where I learned to do this at was actually the home of the most commonly used grafting sealant manufacturer in the industries, and we used it exclusively. Demo will be accomplished early next week.
