Day 1 to 6 | Veg
(start Wednesday 6 March)
Buckle your bloody belts, here comes another spare room grow in the shitstorm that is my local weather!
Plants are 2 x Barney's Farm LSD's. Strain are clones from a friend who imported seeds and is a great pheno- covered in white trichomes when fully mature, very exciting. Some would say, moist in the loins. Honestly, I've seen people drag their nuts through a mile of broken glass to hear this bud burn through a walkie talkie.
*I talk shit in these comment sections so that when I go back and read them I laugh at myself.*
Setup is a 110L tank that holds ~50L of water. Plants sit in here and this is where my roots drop into the water, I have 4 x 4inch air stones- one in my res. and 3 in the tank.. I have a 30L reservoir where a constant flow of water funnels through a 50mm pipe from the tank. To cool the water I have a 120mm aquarium fan that blows into the res and runs up the 50mm pipe into the tank- a cooling method that has dropped my water temp significantly (3 degrees C).
Plan for this grow is to reach over 300 grams with 2 plants in 0.84m2 space. That's asking for 0.75g per watt. A tall order but let's see how we get on.
Weather is humid, we have thunderstorms in the afternoon and intermittently throughout the week. Day temps are ~30 and evening temps around 22.
Howzit,
So I am going to attempt to graft an arm onto my one plant, seeing that I mainlined two great stems and like an inattentive fool broke one off.
My question:
Anyone done this before and have any pointers for me? Not sure what the likeliness of this working is.
Heyy Zimbo yes it can work doing the grafting method. It is harder because most likely if your having to attempt a graft the branch has snapped completely off. Now when trying to fix this you need to make sure where it broke does not "scab" up or else it wont heal back onto the plant. It is very tricky but can work i have done it once or twice before an i had a little spot that had "scabbed" over so i took a scalpel an made the slightest cut just to get it back open to a fresh cut make sure it is fresh like that on both spots you are trying to graft the put the branch back on an use some tape to hold it on sometimes you will have to add something to act like a splint as well. You can also look into some of the different cutting method before the graft to get more surface area touching where it will be grafted. Hopefully it will take if not and you see it drooping you can always try to save it an make it a clone Happy Growing!!!
Hemp is a resiliant plant. and most time snapped branches are fixable.Its very common to break snap a branch or on outdoors the wind/ animals break them. If you give alittle help to your plants they most time make it
@Thee_HoffGuyy The graft didn't go so well. I think I rushed the process and didn't put enough thought into the way that the stem should be sliced. Been a few days now and the arm is dead 👻 I suppose there will always be another opportunity.
This was me doing the procedure: https://youtu.be/mxHUSRk6f2g | and this was the final result: https://youtu.be/UP8i5uJ-Mf4
@ThatZimbo, Aww that's to bad it didn't work. The last one i tried didn't either. it can be very tough to do it's just like you said you gotta get the cut of both stems just right. Thanks for posting the vids. I'll check em out👊 Oh yea she is looking Awesome keep up that great work👍 got some nice strong stems on her💪 Happy Growing an Plentiful Harvests!!🙏
Hope i was able to help😊 it can be tough be its really cool when grafting works i did it once with a cutting from another plant it was wicked cool had 2 main branches 2 different strains lol Happy Growing!!! They look great!
@Thee_HoffGuyy,
Thanks so much for the insight. A friend has some Martian Mean Green mother plants, we're going to try a splice with one of those and see how it goes! I'll keep you updated on the progress if you would like?
@ThatZimbo, I believe it was like around 5-7 weeks old it was a little while ago so i don't remember exactly but I do know that one of the plants was like 2 weeks older the the other. There may be a a certain period where the chances are better but I'm not to sure. haven't done that much research on it just enough to kno it can work and can also be tricky