midwest
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This is a long shot because it requires tissue culture, but we could answer a very important scientific question about cannabis fairly easily it seems to me
There is a lot of talk about influencing m/f ratio or phenotype expression by the environment the seedling vegged in. Notably by Dutch Passion
The basic question is Does the seed need to turn into the pheno it it ended up turning into? Or could it have been coaxed towards a different one at an early stage somehow?
The test would be extremely simple. Take tissue cultures of a seedling at the earliest possible stage. Grow at least one of the tissue cultures next to the original seedling. Then see if you get pheno variation or even different sexes
It seems to me that this could lead to a lot of advancements
If they do produce different phenos a lot of testing could then be done to determine what exactly influences what type of pheno. Also it could extend the lives of strains that are down to one or two seeds. You could make real m/f seeds from a single plant.
There is a lot of talk about influencing m/f ratio or phenotype expression by the environment the seedling vegged in. Notably by Dutch Passion
The basic question is Does the seed need to turn into the pheno it it ended up turning into? Or could it have been coaxed towards a different one at an early stage somehow?
The test would be extremely simple. Take tissue cultures of a seedling at the earliest possible stage. Grow at least one of the tissue cultures next to the original seedling. Then see if you get pheno variation or even different sexes
It seems to me that this could lead to a lot of advancements
If they do produce different phenos a lot of testing could then be done to determine what exactly influences what type of pheno. Also it could extend the lives of strains that are down to one or two seeds. You could make real m/f seeds from a single plant.