keeping clone alive

[teemu shalanie]

Question for all you advanced types out there, is it possible to keep a clone or slips alive in fridge . etc, for long periods of time> ? can u keep a strain alive in suspended animation?...


TS

 

[Mikell]

Tissue culture, indefinitely I believe, if handling, treatment and storage conditions are on the level. There's a company in Van that provides the service. How legal and what they charge are other questions.

I've read reports of growers having success after 1-6 monthes in the fridge, but have not seen it done.

 

[MJPassion]

I've kept cuts in the fridge for a month to 6 weeks in a glass of water, changed every few days.

Snip the callous end off prior to placing in the cloner.

 

[Jellyfish]

I have put cuts in a baggie, and kept them in the fridge like that for a few days, like a week, with no ill effects.

 

[stoned-trout]

around a month in fridge before stem starts getting messed up...

 

[sourpuss]

Left some cuts/clones in my cloner for a long ass time... prob 6 weeks to 2 months.... looked like they woulda kept going dwc style if I topped em and kept up with res changes.... roots were super white with major neglect. Leaves perfect... I use a dwc type cloner...

 

[Greyskull]

I found saving clips in the fridge to be sort of a gene bank
I use pyrex test tubes, and change the water out every few days
I've rooted cuts successfully that have been in the fridge for up to a month

 

[vostok]

You may consider freezing the cuts, as they do it to strawberries why not canna?

 

[Jellyfish]

You may consider freezing the cuts, as they do it to strawberries why not canna?

Good idea, but have you ever tried it yourself?

 

[Snook]

You may consider freezing the cuts, as they do it to strawberries why not canna?

nothing to loose... I go now.. be back in a month or two..

 

[Corpsey]

there is a thread i read on here a few years ago and tried it out and found it to be useful for at least 3-6 weeks. after 2-3 weeks your % goes down, so you need to have extra cuts if you plan on longer then that. but 3-4 weeks is pretty easy.

11 year old thread haha...
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?threadid=5325

 

[Lester Beans]

If you stay on changing the water every two or three days you can store clones in the fridge for a long time. I put two drops of hygrozyme in the water and have kept clips in the fridge and successfully rooted them close to 6 months later.

Strawberries are very hardy plants that can take some frost, cannabis can not. I have had zero luck freezing clippings.

Tissue culture is a good way to keep genetics for an extended time. Kits are sold and the hardest part is keeping the area clean. If you can do that its a snap. Lots of info out there on tissue culture.

 

[stoned-trout]

You may consider freezing the cuts, as they do it to strawberries why not canna?

ha ha the defrost is a bitch ...lame wilty plant matter

 

[vostok]

Good idea, but have you ever tried it yourself?

Not as yet ..but have sen it done with commercial strawberry growers, getting more than one season per year ...is to freeze the clones for up to 6 months, just ensure you have stout roots first

 

[Jellyfish]

Just don't think it will work with cannabis cuts. Like stoned-trout said, you'll end up with mush. You can't smoke strawberries and you can't freeze cannabis cuts*. I wish I could get high on strawberries, make my life simpler.

*You can freeze them, it's the thawing out part that ruins it.

 

[FatherEarth]

I've left plants for 3weeks in the same water with kelp extract, coconut water, aloe extract mixed with water oxygenated from one of these http://www.amazon.com/Enki-ENKI-WATERING-SYSTEM/dp/B0016M8VN4/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top in a cold room inside a dark cabinet with the cabinet just barely cracked to receive very weak indirect light and successfully rooted all but 2 out of more than a dozen. This plant just wants to live.. Hard to kill...

 

[FatherEarth]

Tissue culture is the way to go, if you have a laminar flowhood or glovebox. We'd all be trading genetics super easy and discreetly...

 

[WeetisPotPie]

Don't know if you got your answer but here is an old overgrow post by Lothar. Hopefully won't get in trouble posting it here. Great read.

https://drugs-forum.com/growfaq/1657.htm

 

[teemu shalanie]

`thnx for all responses guys , I will be looking into tissue culture ,.... seems to be the best method,....I report back.

TS

 

[FatherEarth]

`thnx for all responses guys , I will be looking into tissue culture ,.... seems to be the best method,....I report back.

TS

pick up "plants from test tubes" excellent book, older but it has all you need to know...