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You haven't had any success that you've shown nor do you have enough knowledge to discuss your claims without getting upset by direct questions. Again, tissue culturing doesn't alter DNA or manipulate DNA no matter how obtuse you want to get about it. Tissue culturing is simply culturing tissue...

They are pretty cool to feed, fairly easy requirements (talking single CFLs here)... and a lot of them come from the area where I grew up and are listed as endangered in the wild now by the way (which is why I got interested in growing them).

A cutting/clone is just a branch of the original plant that's formed it's own roots - nothing different genetically and nothing to do with breeding at all... which makes it all the more mysterious. It has to be something different in the environment or nutrients or something external right? I'm...

If there's photosynthesis going on, the leaf is producing auxin for the plant. If the leaf is producing auxin for the plant, the plant keeps the leaf attached. If auxin isn't being produced by the leaf (no photosynthesis going on), an abscission layer forms and the plant gets rid of the leaf.

As you know I'm not experienced with the technique you are using all, but in regards to that part about flacidity... I'd bet good money the drowning solution is just really hypertonic compared to the plant cells - which would result in cells having their water drawn out and collapse (losing...

Just sharing something different I have going on that I'm proud of, a little cabinet for carnivorous plants. The big container are all from seed and I've taken out the ones I liked already:

This really sucks but I'm sitting here smoking a bowl and trying to relax but the realization is hitting home that I'm throwing way too much money towards the little tent for my current situation without getting anywhere near the results I want/need to make it worth it. Same could be said for...

The setup looks good and workable if going with running small clones through. Hey I know five-gallon buckets are 12" in diameter so in theory you can fit 8... not sure if it's so practical though to do more than 5 for a couple of reasons: you'll need a little space between buckets to be able...

That's mysterious - are they cuttings from the same mom or were you going from different seeds with them?

Incredibly hard to pick 3, but here's the votes I came up with in the end: 1. ENDLSCYCLE 2. elfroggo 3. BeKindBud

Thanks for dropping in jzs, just got subbed to your grow. I'll have to catch up on it today. I'm finding more and more little leaves with that funky extra leaf blade coming out the middle on Minerva (MD) - did you guys ever notice this on the ones you have?:

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Well the SW male she was crossed with was super fast flowering (even for a male). Should be some faster flowering MD-like plants in these seeds that could be backcrossed with the MD clone I'm keeping. After about 6 backcrossings you'd end up with a Minerva that flowers faster. I was just...

I have zero real experience with autos but here's the theory as I've gathered to at least get you going in the right direction to look into further if you want: There are two real methods to breeding: Pedigree method where the plants with the best traits are kept for breeding and plants that...

Athena is a cross of more than a few strains from when I grew outdoors. Skunk, Haze, Ice, some plants from nice bagseed that I liked, and a couple of others. She wasn't the result of a real breeding attempt as much as just me trying to keep free and decent seeds around. I'd like to get a little...

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Sounds reasonable to me as long as you aren't having to use a crazy amount of pH down - but with you monitoring EC, I doubt that will be an issue. I know it doesn't seem logical at first and it's hard to explain - but the more pure the water, the more pH can fluctuate all over the place. It's...

Guess I'm going to have to give it a try since I'll have about a half-bottle of PBP:B left over from this grow and I can mix it with the PB:G to get through veg and stretch without any waste for next grow. Oh by the way, if anyone else does both soil and hydro - no issues with using the PBP:B...

I'm pretty sure RE is just a beneficial microbe additive (I use them from day 1) - I wouldn't get scared into not using it as recommended if so. But I've not used RE specifically so take with a grain of salt. I'm pretty confident you pH fluctuations will go away once you start them on their...