i just ripped these neat images off the interwebs.
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Here's some SweetSkunk artificial seeds I made in my TC lab
They are definitely not cheaper to make than vegetative clones- artificial seeds are much more labor intensive and costly in materials.
-Chimera
the tc lab is a really cool reality for doing this. i am also interested in seeing the work of the many hobbyists doing it using low tech and or diy flow hoods and kitchen scale petri pouring tips etc. i think it would be awesome for a hobbyist thread for home diy tissue culture projects. as far as doing it in a closet size operation as an adjunct to your mom room i think it would be more of what folks on this site would be looking for.
it can be done with minimal equipment if 100% success isnt of dire importance. even if you could get it to 50 success that would meet the need of most people just trying to preserve or pass genetics.
theres you tube videos of folks doing it with different plants at home so if youre curious to delve into this on the cheap and you can competently pour petris and sterilize things with a pressure cooker you can totally get your feet wet if you can get all the chems.
the papers from ol miss give the exact incubation times and temps agar recipes and hormone concentrations plus some overview of protocols. you can find the methods protocols fot tc pretty easy.
i wouldnt even bother with the kits. if youve ever canned food before you can totally do it.
i was looking to buy a flow hood for my own cloning lab on cl in the bay when i started emailing back and forth itt turned out the woman selling the things husband had been using it to patent a process of emerging some sort of plant cells from cryo without the use of cryo protectants or something like that to somehow then use that technology for human tissue transplants of some sort. it was a while ago and i never ended up talking to him and she didnt have a very good grasp on his work. but it was fascinating to me to think it could be done and then it was very soon after ward that i saw chimera posting pics of a cryogenically frozen container that seemed from the context to contain cannabis cells. i believe it was the same plant he just posted sweet skunk if i remember correctly. neat stuff i dont know the process. really really incredible to think of the possibilities that presents.Chimera,
Cool.
How are they most easy grown? In soil? In-vitro? Rockwool?
How long can they be stored? How? Can you freeze them?
% of them that do grow plants? How long have you kept one and then grown it?
For the other posters in this thread, seeds can and do harbor viruses and other pathogens. If the plant is cleaned up first before the artificial seeds are made then these should be pathogen free. What is the size and weight of these? Seeds are maybe 25-75 to a gram.
I remember 20 years ago I set up an in-vito lab and was hoping to be able to freeze meristem, callus, or cells and then regrow them after thawing, no luck they all turned to black slime and died. My hope was to be able to keep a suspended library in several different areas of the world as a back up of my 300 plant library at the time. It would of fit into a lunch box. I was able to grow meristems, or Callus or cells, root them, reproduce them easy, I had problems with getting callus to make shoots. I think that is solved now.
The only problem will be that artificial seeds grow Cannabis that tastes artificial,
LOL, just joking....
-SamS
i know two people now with small tc labs, so ill get to play more this year, where did you learn the process sam?