This is the result of being extremely high 
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Don’t know much about it , and haven’t seen a thread on it. This vid is impressive though.
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Off that recent harvest no doubt 
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I’m still in shock over it
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There is a grafting thread or two around here. Really peaked my interest but I believe the second one failed while the first just kinda stopped.
Very interesting and possible. I always wondered how long until traits from the original ‘affect’ the clones attached. Im sure the genes cant be ‘changed’ but the process of growing from a different strain has to do something over time…
Also wondered how would it stand up ‘legally’. Like say u have rights to 4 plants, so u graft 3 diff originals to a solid stalked ‘mother’. Flower those 3 OG’s and replace with 3 others and graft them to the ‘mother’. Repeat as often… eventually ull have 8ish strains. But technically 1 plant! Haha
Sucks I cant find the threads neither! I know there was one from before i joined (2019?) and someone attempted it while I was here…
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It is really interesting. Can you imagine having 4 plants , but 30 different strains? 
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It’s not that hard to do. Grafting soft stem annuals is way easier than say a woody tree trunk. It’s essentially the same as when someone breaks a big leader branch and then tapes it up to heal. 99%of the time they recover.
The problem arises if you have pests or mold. It will be in all the strains on your grafted mother. Better to have isolated mothers in my opinion. The only reason to do this is for plant counts.
I graft lots of fruit trees. I bench graft my apples, cherries, pears, and peaches for plant sales (PTA plant sale ha no cannabis) I participate in every spring. I buy root stock and graft my scions.
Anyway, the grafting is easy; separating the eventual pestilence from all your eggs on one basket is the hard part.
In my humble opinion. 
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TBH I just don’t see the point for an annual plant.
If weed grew perennially, on a wooden stalk this would be the standard in low plant count states like mine.
I guess you could technically keep it alive as long as you wanted with proper care and training but I just can’t see that it’d be worth the effort. Not for me at least - may work fine for others though!
A fleshy stem, like weed has, would definitely be easier to get started growing as opposed to a woody one, like a Dogwood or fruit tree.
My womans grandmother had an apple tree she had grafted at least 5 additional strains of apple to. It was crazy in mid to late summer when those fruits would really start forming and there were green and gold varieties growing on a tree with 4 different types of red!
She was one of the best growers I’ve ever met in my life!
There is no telling what that gentle lady could have done with a pack of weed seeds!
Love you Mrs. Shelton! RIP!
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I am also guilty of the Frankenapple tree. Just grafted a cosmic crisp this spring to my collection. My cherry tree is also quite the collection of cherries.
It’s one of my non canna hobbies. I figure if society ends we have to eat something besides cannabis. Ha. Potatoes make a good backup too. Like a food safety deposit box.
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Is that what people are doing when they bore the stem-sized hole in a potato and insert another plant then plant the potato?
I’ve seen that before but I must have already been stoned because I just couldn’t wrap my head around what the hell they were doing! LOL!
I saw Mrs Shelton walk outside in mid-winter and cut a stick off a willow or something and stick it in a pot to use as a prop for a Xmas Amaryllis when the forced bloom would get heavy come back the next week and the stick would be growing!
Every single year!
She grew up in the western end of North Carolina in Mars County - I think it was called, and they foraged the forest for many things.
She’d go to the mountains once they moved here and find ginseng and Lady’s Slipper Orchids and transplant them to her yard ( 
), and they always lived!
I bet there’s still a hell of a ginseng patch behind that house they lived in!
She knew EXACTLY what to do with things to help them survive.
They actually hunted ginseng and traded it to the Mr. Haney traveling sales people for other things they needed.
She was a cool old lady! And all of 4 and a half ft tall! 
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Your grandmother in law sounded like quite the person. I hope she passed on some of her knowledge to the family.
Ha, no the potatoes are just for eating. It’s a trick I learned from a permaculture guy in Oregon. He has a podcast. He sells produce in Portland farmers markets and sells cannabis too. Anyway, he says potatoes are his fav covercrop for his fallow fields. He knows he always has 2 tons of potatoes to feed his family and friends if the grocery stores went empty for some reason. (More natural disaster than aliens). Also, they improve the soil by shading out weeds (fallow field) and the old potatoes rot leaving starch and sugars for the microbes. Then the dead foliage rots and adds organic matter. And the baby (new) potatoes sprout up the next year. This dude does it on a 12 acre plot.
But you are correct, you can take a cutting in a potato. I did this experiment with cannabis and meyers lemon tree cuttings. Bore a hole and stick it in. Seal it w honey. It works. The only bad part is removing it from the potato without stripping off all the new roots. I have not found a graceful way to do that. Also, the potatoes starts to grow if you just plant the whole thing. They end up fighting for real estate. Easier to just take a clone in its own medium than share with the potatoe. I found sweet potatoes worked better than russets for some reason. Like 50%better. Go figure.
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