The Gee Spot - You Finally Found It

[Gee64]

I'm presenting my old roots for your consideration haha buncha rootaholics round here.

So I found something interesting with these roots, there was an thick 1" mat of ultra fine roots at the top. This was below the loose 1" top section that would have been top fed. There were very large roots directly to the the bottom and fine roots again. Pretty neat to see especially because both root balls looked almost identical.

That's a sweet rootball

A mat of feeder roots about an inch down, and a large cake of them on the bottom, is pretty typical of a cloth pot high brix rootball.


If you dig in slowly you will find 2 or 3 thinner cakes of them between the top and bottom. That top cake will keep growing upwards as the layers of topdressings stack up.

My outside BK had a layer about 8" thick on top.

About 4 weeks before harvest I dumped a 5gal pail of soil on the surface of the pot and it was a full 4" deep. A month later it was a solid mat right to the surface.

 

[Gee64]

Some cannabis grows from drinking foliar dew. This is something that I saw on a video about Transkei landraces. The plants higher up the mountain are getting their main source of water from foliar dew! There are also surface roots that drink the dew. Cannabis is When you think about how it is able to mutate to survive...

It's an incredible plant.

 

[Gee64]

Here are yesterdays pictures.

The fish is already starting to green them up.

This one has been topped above the 3rd node.

And so has this one.

This one isn't there yet, tomorrow probably.

And the same for The Wormocaust Survivor.

The veg tent. 2 MS Momma's behind the Chosen One, and The Tortured Soul off to the right is segregated and so skinny that it can hide behind a tent pole and an RH sensor.

 

[Gee64]

Has anyone here ever tried grafting cannabis? I think I might start playing with it. My end game would be to harvest an 8 top manifolded plant by cutting off the colas and grafting new ones right on to the root ball, but first I think I'll try it out on a smaller scale.

The next time my 2 MS Mommas need to be pruned back I think I will try grafting from one to the other. What do you guys think? One Mother plant with a few strains on it would be helpful for sure.

So if I can get it to work then I'll start working towards re-using a fully developed rootball. Gaia Green should make it easy to keep feeding it.

If it works, I wonder how large of a diameter of a stock can be grafted?

Could you cut off a 24" clone and graft it straight on? Probably not, but I think I will give it a go.

I've had one of these for a couple years now and I'm dying to try it.

Maybe I'll try all 3 shapes to see which works best. If I swap 3 branches to and from each Mumma that will be 6 grafts. Hopefully at least 1 will take.

Any thoughts, tips, tricks?

Have any of you ever grafted anything?

 

[Roy Growin]

Well yes, I've grafted pepper plants and most fruit trees in the garden centre are grafts because it gets them to market quicker and produces more fruit
Should work so long as the two pieces of stem are at least similar diameter, and the V cut is a good fit
Smear a bit of cinnamon around the graft and tie in your support, then wrap it firmly in moss, clingfilm etc
Might be hit and miss as you say, but in theory yes it should work - you might mist with foliar feed for the first 7-10 days
Interesting thought

 

[Gee64]

Well yes, I've grafted pepper plants and most fruit trees in the garden centre are grafts because it gets them to market quicker and produces more fruit
Should work so long as the two pieces of stem are at least similar diameter, and the V cut is a good fit
Smear a bit of cinnamon around the graft and tie in your support, then wrap it firmly in moss, clingfilm etc
Might be hit and miss as you say, but in theory yes it should work - you might mist with foliar feed for the first 7-10 days
Interesting thought

Thanks for the info. I don't know if it has a practical application, but a multi strain mother would be cool.

What diameter of a branch do you think would be optimal?

 

[Roy Growin]

Thanks for the info. I don't know if it has a practical application, but a multi strain mother would be cool.

What diameter of a branch do you think would be optimal?

10-15mm, semi-woody

 

[Gee64]

10-15mm, semi-woody

Excellent!, a place to start

 

[Azimuth]

and The Tortured Soul off to the right is segregated and so skinny that it can hide behind a tent pole and an RH sensor.

She's just shy, probably just waiting for someone to believe in her. And you're just the man for the job!

Has anyone here ever tried grafting cannabis? I

Light Addict had a thread where was going to graft a bunch of different strains to one mother. There's good info on his plans at the beginning of the thread.

LA's thread

And here

Should work so long as the two pieces of stem are at least similar diameter, and the V cut is a good fit

Right, try for same sized diameters if possible. Failing that, line up the outer edges.

What diameter of a branch do you think would be optimal?

Pencil sized-ish. Not too big or small.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

She's just shy, probably just waiting for someone to believe in her. And you're just the man for the job!


Light Addict had a thread where was going to graft a bunch of different strains to one mother. There's good info on his plans at the beginning of the thread.

LA's thread

And here


Right, and try for same sized diameters. Failing that, line up the outer edges.


Pencil sized-ish. Not too big or small.

I have successfully grafted in the past following Light Addicts lead. It was an interesting process.

 

[Azimuth]

most fruit trees in the garden centre are grafts because it gets them to market quicker and produces more fruit

Right. And also to enhance other qualities.

Most citrus are grafted because they don't come true from seed and most taste horrible, so they graft a special tasting orange or lemon for example on a hardier root stock.

Same for apples. There are dozens roots stocks, some for cold hardiness in say upstate New York, or another for fusarium wilt hardiness for something further south.

One way they grow the root stocks is to bury a root stock tree in a barrel of sand. After a few seasons they cut the main trunk after it has gone dormant for the season and the next season a whole bunch of suckers will grow up but because they are under sand they each will have their own roots and can be used for the bottom section of grafted trees.

Pretty cool stuff.

 

[Gee64]

I have successfully grafted in the past following Light Addicts lead. It was an interesting process.

Lady Cannafan Welcome .

Do you by chance happen to have a picture of the healed grafting?

Also what diameter was your branch?

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Lady Cannafan Welcome .

Do you by chance happen to have a picture of the healed grafting?

Also what diameter was your branch?

I'll find some pics tomorrow from one of my old journals for you. I can't remember the year. I had some long azzzed journals. Somewhere between 2013 and 2017. Lol I remember that light addict and I were doing one at the same time.

I thought I had posted here before. I guess I've been a lurker more than I realized.

 

[Gee64]

I'll find some pics tomorrow from one of my old journals for you. I can't remember the year. I had some long azzzed journals. Somewhere between 2013 and 2017. Lol I remember that light addict and I were doing one at the same time.

I thought I had posted here before. I guess I've been a lurker more than I realized.

I would love to see some pictures if it's not too much trouble.

I read Light Addict's stuff about making a 100 strain plant, but it seems he never got it actually started.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

I would love to see some pictures if it's not too much trouble.

I read Light Addict's stuff about making a 100 strain plant, but it seems he never got it actually started.

That poor guy and his wife have gone through hell. Seems just when he gets rolling the last couple years something happens to knock him down. I keep hoping things will calm down for them so he can get back to what he loves and does an outstanding job of.

 

[Gee64]

That poor guy and his wife have gone through hell. Seems just when he gets rolling the last couple years something happens to knock him down. I keep hoping things will calm down for them so he can get back to what he loves and does an outstanding job of.

Fingers crossed and sending good vibes his way

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Good Morning Gee-man
I have a couple of pics to post of the heal on the graft plant. This was in 2016. I am still looking back to see the beginning of the process. I called her "Lola".

 

[StoneOtter]

Sounds fun Gee!

 

[Gee64]

Good Morning Gee-man
I have a couple of pics to post of the heal on the graft plant. This was in 2016. I am still looking back to see the beginning of the process. I called her "Lola".

Wow it healed up nicely!. I like how Daddy Longlegs photo bombed the picture. This gives me hope, Thank You.

 

[4our8ighty0]

Oh shizz grafting cannabis !!! Omg I have looking into this it's insane the things this plant can do!!! Wats your grafting journal name? I wanna follow this fr!!