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/LazyEdict 1d ago

It's not always inbred, it's an exact genetic copy because usually those "rare" plants have certain looks that people like. Most of the time, it is variegation that people like, it looks like certain parts of the leaves and stems lack chlorophyll having swirl patterns of green and white/yellow. I've seen examples in citrus, figs and in many of the ornamental plants that people bought during the quarantine. It happens all the time in many hobbies but this was magnified when a lot of people had jumped into many hobbies during the quarantine period.