rootsnshoots
- 141
- 28
I read that initial work with micro propagation on cannabis led to hermies and the pheno's were not accurate...they eventually figured it out. It makes me think that the "power washing" of punked out genetics might not be pure "broscience". If past results led to plants unlike the explant it may be that micro propagation maintains the genotype not the phenotype...this could be responsible for the power washing. I am speaking in theory solely based on the fact that plants have been different from the explant.
Remember that the DNA content is only part of the game...DNA regulation/ is a major part of what we see when we look at a plant. i.e. the punked out clone may still have all the DNA needed for the original quality but its not being enforced/regulated. The more I think about it IBA and the other hormones we use may have even turned them off (big time speculating here). It makes sense if you consider/assume that the micro propagation hormones cause the hermies and lost phenos. What I am trying to say is that if a plant can get new traits (hermies and lost/new phenotypes) from micro propagation hormones then it does not seem crazy that those same hormones would do the same thing (or something similar or equally weird) to our clones.
I guess I am just not ready to give up the hope the same way the first researchers did not give up when they got hermies and lost phenos
Perhaps I'm just an optimist
I think I came across that a bit ago.. If i remember right they were getting hermies after forming callus? If you could refresh my memory with the link?