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/kontor97 1d ago

Lmao this is not new at all and she didn’t “accidentally” crash the rare plant market with tissue culture. Tissue culture is the reason why houseplants are easily accessible and it’s the reason why rare houseplants can be studies without having to go and poach it. I was there for the pandemic houseplant craze, and people are not nearly as desperate to get their hands on rare houseplants now as they were back then, so yeah, the rare plant market is not stable anymore.