just what is a tissue culture?

[emanresu]

I was talking to someone online the other day, and they were talking about growing from a tissue culture. Is this same thing as cloning?

 

[GreenNotYellow]

I'm not sure about that, but sounds so. I mean, I doubt they meant to get like half of a leaf and try growing from it, right? And if you cut a small branch, stimulate it's roots to grow and then maintain it till it's growing - that's clonning. Can we get some context of that tissue growing thing?

 

[orggrwr]

Can't remember where I read it but I believe they are talking about starting a plant in a test tube with a tiny piece of plant tissue. Read an article about it about a year ago but not sure if they called it tissue culture.

 

[emanresu]

Can't remember where I read it but I believe they are talking about starting a plant in a test tube with a tiny piece of plant tissue. Read an article about it about a year ago but not sure if they called it tissue culture.

yeah, that's what they were saying. I never heard of anyone doing such a thing with cannabis

 

[Thukah]

I was talking to someone online the other day, and they were talking about growing from a tissue culture. Is this same thing as cloning?

Tissue/cell culture are molec. biology techniques that are used to expand a small number of cells/tissue in a sterile medium. Mammalian cell culture is very common in research and the expanded cells are used as a stock, same thing with plant tissue, you can use very small samples of tissue and produce many identical plants quickly and cleanly.

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

Tissue/cell culture are molec. biology techniques that are used to expand a small number of cells/tissue in a sterile medium. Mammalian cell culture is very common in research and the expanded cells are used as a stock, same thing with plant tissue, you can use very small samples of tissue and produce many identical plants quickly and cleanly.

Damn. That's good stuff.

 

[amneziaHaze]

I remember one guy on the foeum did it but it looks like you need a lot of equipment to make it all sterile.
Usually people do this for orchids they have a weird breeding

 

[aus420rippnres]

It's what we used before American pie said it was kosher to pound an apple pie into a crumble lol

 

[aus420rippnres]

Nah sorry it's when you blend up any plant material and soak in certain chemicals and ever little part of plant tissue will grow from every little piece apparently it takes away genetic drift and mutations from the the genes