Interesting read. Tissue Culture propagation. Is anyone here doing this?
The main downside of micropropagation is that itās not something for your everyday small-scale grower. Micropropagation requires an extremely sterile environment, expertise, and total temperature, humidity, and light control.
This is what worries me about it. If only a select few places have the equipment to do it, then itās going to bottleneck genetics way faster than cloning does today. Itās probably only a concern for industry genetics. Everything in dispensaries might become the Cavendish banana of the grocery storeā¦
But folks like us will still keep the diversity in personal seed collectionsā¦
Damn. Nice colas! Those guys know how to grow.
Absolutely @lefthandseeds! Sounds too creepy anyway. I think itās a misguided concept essentially.
Thanks for the response my friend.
Thanks for sharing the article. Itās a subject Iām interested in ā mostly for tracking the industry. Itās interesting, but Iām not sure itāll ever take off.
Iād think there would be at least one other agricultural industry already out there that would use this technique. Seems to me, the fact that Monsanto or Cargill arenāt distributing genetics in this way at scale probably means itās not cost effectiveā¦ but maybe itās just still too bleeding edge for any agricultural industry.
Nope, walk into any petco, they have been selling aquarium plants grown by Tissue Culture propagation for years. Cheap too.
I worked with a guy who was working on a clone bank using Tissue Culture propagation, when the market in Oregon crashed he put it on hold - havenāt talk to him in a year now.
how to get busted under legalization part XXIXILLIā¦more brilliant police work! This officer busted a suspicious dumpster for having empty vialsā¦
MCR Labs in Framingham to keep cannabis waste indoors after vials found in dumpster
^^^
Not surprising.
Big waste of taxpayer funded time, going after āunusableā waste.
MPP again - eager to sell us out! way to go - give up all negotiating power at the start of the processā¦howās the āincremental processā working in Washington state, where growing is still not allowed after ālegalizingā in 2012???
http://www.wpri.com/.../raimondo-admin.../1701335928
Matthew Schweich, the deputy director of the Marijuana Policy Project, told Eyewitness News Monday night his organization would like to see Raimondo reconsider the ban on home-growing operations.
āMost of the states that legalize allow for limited amount of home cultivation, including Massachusetts,ā Schweich said. āFrom a policy perspective, we donāt see a need to outright ban home cultivation. However, weāre pragmatists, and weāre believers in incremental progress. We wouldnāt allow that to stop this whole effort.ā
Well, this is certainly long overdue.
A mere baby step in the right direction.
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oooh, yo a study showing pesticide and heavy metal concentrations graphed against potency of the product would probably blow these kinds of articles out of the water. Can you imagine someone trying to honestly argue that some dark-brown brick-weed issafer to smoke than some 28% flower.
@oleskool830 and @lefthandseeds
Micropropagation is just cloning in a sterile environment on a nutrient rich jello, and a dash of rooting hormones. You can take those tiny branches too small for normal cloning, rinse em in diluted bleach water, cut off the now damaged tips, and put the explant in the jello with parafilm on top.
Tissue culture is the same idea, but you can start with a leaf or a stem or whatever cells you have on hand. First step is to first grow a callus, then you can step by step force it to grow each new organ that itās missing from that callus.
2019 is going to have a major influx of micropropagation.
Sad state of affairs in the Massachusetts commercial industryā¦only one store for a city of 700,000 people, run by a former sheriff who jailed her fellow people of color on drug offenses for decadesā¦
Iām hoping for some good OG threads on this for 2019.
Wild. I had no idea that basement labs could be sterile enough for this. Iāll definitely give it a go if I hear about other people having success. Unless the success rate is super low, Iād rather be doing this instead of cloning.
