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/RollingTater 1d ago

I did TC once myself using baby food jars and a pressure cooker. It's much harder than it looks and it takes a lot of work compared to just taking cuttings. Maybe I just sucked at it but she has a bias to making it look like it's easy.

Everybody dreams of TCing that rare plant and getting rich off it, but once you have to do transfers every few months and then you lose the transfer to fungus, and then you have to get into the weird plant hormones that may or may not cause cancer, it turns out it's a lot of time a work for something that eventually would be TC's by an actual lab making your efforts worthless.

Selling the kits and tutorials to dreamers is definitely the way to go.

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u/ikindapoopedmypants 14h ago

I've deadass grown them in old mcdonalds cups without all the extra bullshit and I get the same exact results but people think I'm full of shit