The science of tissue culture,a new level in auto breeding?

[proto]

Yesterday a small handful of caregivers here in Maine including medicine man and myself were fortunate enough to attend a tissue culture class and demo.I will not attempt to explain the process here but this is very doable with a small investment in lab equipment and some care and patience.While watching the demo my mind and medicine man's turned instantly to auto breeding and this is the thought,if you can take a tissue culture from an auto at 1 week old and hold it in stasis for a month or two and then grow a full sized copy of that plant from the culture then this could really kick auto breeding up to the next level.For instance,this would make pheno hunt's easier and more productive because you could take labeled samples of everything and then grow out the "mothers" and "fathers" separately and judge them all without seeding anything and then pull out the keeper male and female tissue culture for breeding.Secondly the more obvious use would be to clone auto's and just keep growing the same pheno every time.At any rate this is just an idea but i'll be popping 50 quizboy f3's in the next couple weeks and taking samples so we shall know soon enough if this will work.I'll keep you all posted.
Peace,proto.

 

[iLuvIndica]

Cant wait to see the results anyone wanna post up some info on the subject shed some light on this ?

 

[Mr Piggy]

I've been reading about tissue culture for the past year or so and have wanted to see it in action. Keep us posted and don't forget to use that flow hood for other nefarious purposes. :firedevil:

 

[tomatos]

Check this site out. http://www.billberryfarmstissueculture.com/ from my understanding this guys tissue culture media is designed around cannabis. im going to be making a small portable tissue culture lab soon. I think i will be using his media for my little projects.

 

[Sourdough]

So has anyone had any luck with PTC? With autos?

 

[Terraformer33]

Tissue culture is cool to create virus free plant material to ship across the planet. it will be very useful to limit transmission of diseases, especially when we colonize mars with marijuana.

Weed Is So Awesome Aliens Smoke It!

 

[Kim]

An article on the TC applied to cannabis that I found interesting especially toward the end. The implications are a bit scary but it's a clean and fast way to propagate at the same time

https://blog.strainly.io/2018/10/24/cannabis-tissue-culture-an-alternative-propagation-method/

 

[Rev. Green Genes]

I tried my hand at tissue culture in school. The main thing was sterility. I think up to half of the trials were bad by contamination even though we were using hoods, and sterilizing equipment in a real lab. If you could get a system that works going cheaply it can be a gold mine. You can crank out plants of all types. With a few runs at it, I know I could make a system at home that would do it just fine.

 

[Proph]

This would have to be done under pristine lab conditions, by an experienced hand. And even then, cross contamination is highly possible.

 

[NastyN8t]

Yesterday a small handful of caregivers here in Maine including medicine man and myself were fortunate enough to attend a tissue culture class and demo.I will not attempt to explain the process here but this is very doable with a small investment in lab equipment and some care and patience.While watching the demo my mind and medicine man's turned instantly to auto breeding and this is the thought,if you can take a tissue culture from an auto at 1 week old and hold it in stasis for a month or two and then grow a full sized copy of that plant from the culture then this could really kick auto breeding up to the next level.For instance,this would make pheno hunt's easier and more productive because you could take labeled samples of everything and then grow out the "mothers" and "fathers" separately and judge them all without seeding anything and then pull out the keeper male and female tissue culture for breeding.Secondly the more obvious use would be to clone auto's and just keep growing the same pheno every time.At any rate this is just an idea but i'll be popping 50 quizboy f3's in the next couple weeks and taking samples so we shall know soon enough if this will work.I'll keep you all posted.
Peace,proto.

This is why i like cloning for selective breeding in autos. The delay in flowering lets me base selection on the parent plants end results. Tissue culture has been on my mind for autos for about a year now but i haven't had the guts to try it yet.i hope on of us takes the leap !