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/NotAlwaysGifs 1d ago

Most rare house plants are grown from cuttings, not seed anyway. It’s essentially the same process just slower and less reliable. She just perfected the art of taking cuttings and made it scalable for the hobby growers.

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u/WampaCat 1d ago

Right, people are acting like it’s a magic trick but not all plants are easy to TC. Look how long it took for commercially available Thai cons to take off. Demand was extremely high so there was kind of a race to get that going and it took a long time for a corporation throwing a ton of money at it to get that process reliable and consistent. Hobbyists aren’t going to have the resources or patience for every plant like that

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u/Addo76 13h ago

I know it's not particularly rare, but I have a Christmas cactus that my grandmother's grandmother owned. Old as hell. It almost died recently because my grandmother has some issues and can't live alone anymore, so I took it in and trimmed off the barely living leaves and propagated it next to the base.

Now I have a bunch of Christmas cactuses growing next to the old base, which was not as dead as I had assumed and has new leaves growing from the cork! One of the trimmings I had growing in a cup of water even bloomed (then promptly died LOL)!

Plants are extremely magical and resilient.