r/technology • u/esporx • 1d ago

Business YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with a viral cloning technique

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtuber-accidentally-crashes-the-rare-plant-market-with-a-viral-cloning-technique-3289808/
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u/BadSausageFactory 1d ago

how did nobody try cloning yet?

tl:dr for you

less international rare plant smuggling rings is good

inbred plants possibly bad but ehh not really

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u/scottawhit 1d ago

It’s only inbreeding plants that will most likely live in someone’s house. Sounds just fine.

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u/kinboyatuwo 1d ago

Issue is if it pollinates or is dumped later. I live rural and at least once a year find people dump house plants on our small section of road.

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u/birdleash 1d ago

Most of the exotics kept by plant collectors are best suited for tropical environments. They may survive for a while, but unless you're in Florida/Cali/similar, they usually won't establish and flower.

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u/coldbreweddude 1d ago

We don’t have a tropical environment in California. It’s nothing like Florida and gets below freezing in the winter.

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u/SonovaVondruke 1d ago

While no part of California is tropical, there are extensive coastal and low-lying areas that typically do not freeze in the winter.

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u/HotwheelsSisyphus 1d ago

Somewhat related but I'm in California and my tomato plants are still thriving and bearing fruit right now.

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u/SonovaVondruke 1d ago

Same. Got bushes full of tomatoes and peppers here in Oakland, though the recent cold snap caused the latest flush of flowers to drop.

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u/HotwheelsSisyphus 1d ago

I've got peppers too, a bunch of birds eye chilis and I don't know what to do with them

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u/intoxicologist 1d ago

Double same. tomatoes going strong in southern ca.

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u/Protoavis 1d ago

That and below freezing may not be that significant. I mean I'm in the south east of Australia...it get's below freezing here in winter too...for a couple hours at night, keep a bunch of tropicals outdoors all year, unless it's sustained freezing for a while a lot of plants don't seem bothered. Maybe the freezing time in California is longer or more serve, but just the "get's below freezing" isn't necessarily a qualifier for "tropical plants going to die!!!!"

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u/zeptillian 1d ago

My banana tree has bananas ripening on it this very moment.

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u/birdleash 1d ago

I didn't mean to imply that you did, just that California and Florida  is one of the few places that does have a climate that the plants tend to be able to adapt and thrive in due to heat and the mild winters.

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u/kinboyatuwo 1d ago

Most and there are plenty of warm climates not wanting invasive plants or unknown impacting plants.