clone preserving gel?

Hi guy i remember seeing an article on a gel that can preserve a pea size (smaller) cutting from a plant. i remember it said you take that little piece and put it in a small container with the gel and it will preserve it for months and when you need it. just take it out and will grow to small flowing size in about 4 weeks.

anyone know whats it called

that doesnt exist cuz thats not possible.

darkdestruction420 said:

that doesnt exist cuz thats not possible.

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actually, it is completely possible, it is called tissue culture and doesnt require a slip cutting, which is what everyone refers to as cloning. there are many benefits to cloning via tissue culture, though a sterile environment is suggested... the grow store i go to sometimes has a tissue culture lab set up where they use tissue culture for all their in house plants... its a pretty slick setup too..

the gel you speak of is probably just something with agar in it:
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/life-science/molecular-biology/plant-biotechnology/plant-tissue-culture/product-lines.html#Gelling Agents

a video on tissue culture taking:
http://www.youtube.com/user/fbt2007?gl=GB&hl=en-GB

here is another video:

[video=youtube;2czIdAz7sj8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2czIdAz7sj8[/video]

probably the more useful of things i could link:

http://www.pakbs.org/pjbot/PDFs/41(2)/PJB41(2)603.pdf

a system for micropropogation of hemp...

PotHead3 said:

Hi guy i remember seeing an article on a gel that can preserve a pea size (smaller) cutting from a plant. i remember it said you take that little piece and put it in a small container with the gel and it will preserve it for months and when you need it. just take it out and will grow to small flowing size in about 4 weeks.

anyone know whats it called

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you know i cant rember were but i herd about this as well .....i once new a guy who kept his clones in a Fridge he riged up with a small light and think if i rember he kept them between 38 42 degrees kept the clones for a long time the had to be rooted befor you stick em in

sappytreetree said:

you know i cant rember were but i herd about this as well .....i once new a guy who kept his clones in a Fridge he riged up with a small light and think if i rember he kept them between 38 42 degrees kept the clones for a long time the had to be rooted befor you stick em in

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yea you can store clones good @45-50F, however you can achieve the same by using really low amounts of nutes and low light... i veg everything slowly for two months waiting on my flowering plants to finish, and actually my clones that are now in small soil pots will stay there til about a month before harvest then i will veg them in DWC, in DWC they grow super fast compared to light feeding in soil...

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my 45-50F was based on what i read, storing them at lower temps is probably fine as long as ice crystals arent forming... it basically suspends growth..

tissue culture. thats what it is . now i reember thanks defcome plus one rep.

darkdestruction420 just cause you never heard dont mean it dont exist. it was covered in hightimes and at first i though it would be kinda useless. but now think about it. if you can keep little bits of tissue in a gel of your favorite strain.. clones of the mother plant instead of seeds that you dont know aBOUT yet. this is a great idea and very usefull

PotHead3 said:

tissue culture. thats what it is . now i reember thanks defcome plus one rep.

darkdestruction420 just cause you never heard dont mean it dont exist. it was covered in hightimes and at first i though it would be kinda useless. but now think about it. if you can keep little bits of tissue in a gel of your favorite strain.. clones of the mother plant instead of seeds that you dont know aBOUT yet. this is a great idea and very usefull

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haha, you should be thanking me for bumping your thread up so someone who knew what you were talking about saw it. it is a very interesting idea, im still trying to wrap my mind around it. You were right. I was wrong.

learning about totipotency might help you get a grip on it... its the same principal as cell replication that is shown in vitro. a highly sterilized environment so there is no stress to the cells trying to do work. its all part of a plants survival mechanism, and it is especially helpful with plants like orchids that are hard to germinate via seed due to the requirement of michorrizae...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totipotent#Totipotency

darkdestruction420 said:

haha, you should be thanking me for bumping your thread up so someone who knew what you were talking about saw it. it is a very interesting idea, im still trying to wrap my mind around it. You were right. I was wrong.

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lol thanks for the bump but my thread was already on top of the page lol

darkdestruction420 said:

haha, you should be thanking me for bumping your thread up so someone who knew what you were talking about saw it. it is a very interesting idea, im still trying to wrap my mind around it. You were right. I was wrong.

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lol i wont be thanking you cause you replied the next day.. someone else might have saw this anyway lol. anyway you need to thank me cause i showed you how the impossible is possible.