Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
When plants are exposed to insane amounts of hormones, they tend to switch off the related biochemical cascade all together.
I made a miscalculation once and exposed some citrus seeds to 100x too many hormones in an attempt to speed up germination. The result was that they turned into dwarfs, all of them. Some 10 years later they're still dwarfs, so I'm thinking I might have entirely knocked out the genes related to the hormone. Usually a knock out requires removal of a gene, but there are other ways to get an off-switch to function; think lactose intolerance for instance, for some reason the lactase gene gets switched off in some humans and lactose is treated by the body as an invasive chemical. Plants can have similar systems in check and might not respond to auxins for instance, after being exposed to agent orange which contains a heavy auxin.
This thread is used to document my repetition of that mistake on trident maples and see if I can succesfully dwarf them.
Some 75 seeds are soaking in the hormone solution right now, another 30 or so will act as controls and get a 'water treatment'.
Seeds are soaking right now and will be stratified afterwards. Or I'll just plop them in the soil. I'd like to know if you guys did any stratification or not and if it's really needed for tridents.
I made a miscalculation once and exposed some citrus seeds to 100x too many hormones in an attempt to speed up germination. The result was that they turned into dwarfs, all of them. Some 10 years later they're still dwarfs, so I'm thinking I might have entirely knocked out the genes related to the hormone. Usually a knock out requires removal of a gene, but there are other ways to get an off-switch to function; think lactose intolerance for instance, for some reason the lactase gene gets switched off in some humans and lactose is treated by the body as an invasive chemical. Plants can have similar systems in check and might not respond to auxins for instance, after being exposed to agent orange which contains a heavy auxin.
This thread is used to document my repetition of that mistake on trident maples and see if I can succesfully dwarf them.
Some 75 seeds are soaking in the hormone solution right now, another 30 or so will act as controls and get a 'water treatment'.
Seeds are soaking right now and will be stratified afterwards. Or I'll just plop them in the soil. I'd like to know if you guys did any stratification or not and if it's really needed for tridents.