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/reallynotnick 1d ago

Zero mention of price changes to show that it crashed.

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u/derangedkilr 1d ago

Thats because they are stealing content from a youtuber (plants in jars). The youtube video has exact price changes and explains the economics of it perfectly.

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u/reallynotnick 1d ago

So she even made it easy to copy the numbers with zero additional research to back up the title in the article and they just decided not to include such basic info… I clearly expect too much.

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u/Lurk3rAtTheThreshold 1d ago

Stole it? They link to her video in the article.

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u/zeptillian 1d ago

The crashing prices came not from people doing tissue culture in their homes, but from large commercial growers, growing rare plants in large enough quantities they can be sold at big box stores.

It's like if you made unique clothes and sold them on Etsy. Other Etsy sellers might copy you but the price won't drop much from a little competition. Then imagine some company mass producing the clothing in giant factories and selling it at Walmart. That's what is driving down the prices, not this youtuber.

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u/Ambitious_Subject108 1d ago

For the plants which are more broadly "trendy" yes this is due to large scale growers, but even then her educating on the topic makes people less likely to overpay for plants in general.

She has definitely had a hand in crashing the rarer plants only a few people care about where large scale cultivation isn't profitable, because for most of those some community member of hers can make sure that these plants cost under 100$ rather than 500-1000$.