Tissue Cultures and DNA Transformations...

Loki_

Okay... hands up who's rockin the ganj on the cellular level?

Here's some pics of my gear in action...





-Loki

MxMike

wtf is that man?!?!
That shit looks fucking cool!

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Loki_

Its a clean box for working with tissue cultures and DNA...

You can see some cultures in petri dishes (in the ziplock bags) and some shoots in test tubes on the top shelf...

Under the black shelf, next to the 'fridge' is a two-way hatch for moving things in and out. The 'fridge' is styrofoam and dry ice... The plastic containers hold all my mats and tools...

My goal is to extract the proper DNA fragments from marijuana and use them to transform the DNA from another plant to create a new THC containing plant.

-Loki

grimreefer

Wow, good luck with that, man.

If you need a guinnea pig let me know!
Haha

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MxMike

YOU ARE AN AMAZING GENIUS!!!!!!!!
OMFG I NEED TO DO THIS!
If only I had a way to help further this idea.
Keep on with that, I'll buy some when you get it right!

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Loki_

Its a slow process... and I don't have sequencing equipment other than electrophoresis gels, which is just enough to tell me if my common flower DNA has changed after transforming it with DNA taken from my pot cultures. I'll have to grow everything out to see what effect the changed DNA has...

I'm thinking about making a video of the DNA extraction and transformation, but its such a pain getting into those gloves that I hate to take them on and off to run the camera...

-Loki

Osprey

Kudos man, best of luck on this project. You'll have a market if you succeed, that's for sure. I would just like to see first result when it grows!

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MxMike

What plants are you planning on trying to infuse the Cannabis DNA with? You should use Hops man, that would be genius...

It's a sister plant to Cannabis and is a needed plant for the HUGE alcohol industry, therefore wouldn't be banned...

...and perhaps with hops being related to cannabis it may make the transformation more easily and produce THC.

Just an Idea...I really don't know what I'm talkin' about.

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Osprey

There's that, plus you could pollinate commercial hops and they'd be screwed. No outlawing that. Who knows, you may wind up catastrophically fucking the brewing industry.

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Loki_

Right now, I'm using african violets. Mainly because they bloom readily and are covered with tricromes... just not THC containing tricromes... yet.

I've got a couple strains of praire grass that I'm going to try as well, but first things first... I'll see what the violets do and go from there..

-Loki

Osprey

Ha! Prairie grass, perfect strain name.

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Loki_

Thanks. If it works, I'm just going to give it away... I'll try and find some growers to do a few grows of it and then have them give it to other growers.... I want to share, but I don't want to be teaching people to grow

-Loki

Loki_

Cannabis TV :: Video :: tissue culture media prep

-Loki