/crops/ - Botany & Mycology

Noice
Which plants do you breed?
Have you actually finished reading that book? Are plants something you're really interested in? If so, at which point in your life did that interest first develop?

How would you go about propagating a cucumber plant? Just replant seeds?

>>16
What's wrong with giant hogweeed?
Is the hoya in the first pic growing out of the pot and are the leaves variegated?

Which part on tissue culture don't you understand m8, I'm into that stuff

Nice man, I wish I had your passion
Beautiful flowers in the second pic

Thanks for the advice

Good luck breeding that new variety someday, let me know how you went about it if you do

>>20
giant hogweed,well let me put it this way,envirocan sends in a team with hazmat suits and flamethrowers if a ptch of the stuff is reported,its invasive as fuck and toxic beyiond beleif,im suprised you dont know about it considering its a massive invasive species n british waterways.
yes it is,the one in the tray is a cutting of neon pothos i "borrowed" from one of the plants that line the collage campus halls.ny next cutting im hoping to borrow is a zz plant cutting.

extraction method of the cells and nutrient regulation,in short the magic part of plant space magic.serious.tissue cuture is literly plant space magic,you take a few cells of meristem tissue and put it in a sterile controlled environ and it spontaneously generates a new plant.

breeding is a lot of work and a lot of luck.theres a standard method but generally it takes upwards of 10-30 years for a basic trait or variety difference.if you get lucky and find a well defined dominate trait.

>>21
oh damn, yeah I just looked it up
I live a pretty sheltered life man, sorry.

>borrowed
lel

How big a cutting did you have to take? Just being able to grow almost anything you see outside and like the look of must be a really nice skill to have.

Oh yeah I remember going over that briefly in biology at school. Instead of having to deal with large cuttings, they just take a few cells (the explant) from the meristem tissue of a plant in sterile conditions, place it in a petri dish with nutrient agar, it divides through mitosis forming a callus (a mass of cells at different stages of specialization), then the callus is split into more cells and more meristem cells can be produced over and over again through the same process. When there are enough, the undifferentiated meristem cells are placed individually onto another similar medium with hormones encouraging shoot growth. When the shoots have grown, they are moved onto a medium containing hormones that encourage root growth. Then after the small plantlets have developed their roots they're planted in soil and begin the hardening stage in a greenhouse. So far they've been in completely sterile conditions with high humidity optimal for rapid growth, but because of that they haven't developed a decent outer protective layer yet and have no functioning cuticles or stomata to avoid drying out. So in the greenhouse they are slowly introduced to more normal conditions until after a few days of further growth they are taken out and planted in a field/wherever they're usually grown.

Sounds like it needs a lot of dedication.
Really want to be able to do something like that myself someday though

>>26
normal cuttings should be at most 3 nodes big,one or two is often more then enough,sometimes just a leaf depending on the plant.

yeah,thats the gist of it,what im not getting is the explination of the exact recovry methods of taking the cells,specilised tools i have not seen before are needed.fuckn plant space magic man.
it cant be done at home,it requires totally and utterly sterile lab conditions,as well as monitoring equipment for moneter the nutrient balance costing in the thousands at the cheapest crappy stuff.

>>34
Thanks for the info m8
oh yeah we heard the equipment is expensive but I've never looked into that stuff myself

someday