Genetically Modified Bud

[BilZ0r]

If you graft plants together you don't mix their genes. While sometimes the plants get similar (try grafting blueberry onto apollo 11 for a tasty mufafugin plant); their children will just be blueberry.

 

[zacamo]

if you splice two plants together you DON'T get any new DNA? mmm that definitely doesn't sound right to me. care to explain how selective breeding works then? par example: breeding new strains of wheat like farmers did for hundreds of years befor genetic modification was even fathomed

 

[DeSpise]

when the genetic material from two organisms combines to form a new organism, the genes can sometimes randomly cross over. they can also spontaneously mutate from environental factors.

when your growing millions of plants, chances are eventually there will be a favourable mutation. you then take this plant and breed the hell out of it until you get that new gene consistently. and you have a new strain of plant.

know anyone growing large fields of high grade cannabis thats not currently incarcerated ???

 

[xXTOKERXx]

i thought most strains of today where GM, do'h!

 

[BilZ0r]

Zacamo: I said grafting, not splicing. That is the technique that Digitally Analog crudely explained. He questioned whether there was genetic mixing between grafted plants. I answered that there isn't; but there is phytochemical mixing.

Splicing is an old term usually refering to genetic mixing. As despise said; selective breeding involves BREEDING plants/animals with traits you want together, which is a little tricky with chronic, as it is dioecious (can be male/female/hermie).