polyploid plants?

[Ratlady]

Hi, sorry if this is in the wrong place - too many boards to choose from!

Could someone please tell me what polyploid plants are, as that's what someone suggested we've got. Can hardly find anything at all on Internet.

Thanks!

[LOC NAR1958]

Sorry it's been years since I heard that. Polyploid is a process of putting chemicals on a plant to make it produce way more budding sites. I did not think that they came from seed as I remember the seed off of the polyploided plants are sterile. It must be done at seedling stage. Some one chime in if I'm wrong.

[marimbas]

In my experience and from what i have read. polipoid is this a plant that contains 2 sets of cromosomes in each cell, making it a bigger higher producer plant.
when babys instead of developing 2 cotiledons, they produce 3 or 4, so when the real leafs, come out, instead of 2, they get 3 or 4, so they grow much bigger, much thicker, many more branchs and lots more stuff..... EXTREAMLY hard to get one, but if you do, give all the love a boy can give!!!!

what Loc says is part truth, the chemical given to plants to produce polyploids is colchisine.

Anyways its extreamely rare, to find a natural seeds that produces a polyploid, almost impossible, this is mustly from treated species....

[Storm Crow]

Marimbas, you were pretty good about your info, but here's more-- Polyploids have 2 or more sets of genes. If I remember rightly (it's been 40 odd years since I was a Bio major), polys that have an even number of sets of genes are usually fertile, those with odd numbers or partial sets are "mules. Since cannabis is easily cloned, this shouldn't matter much. Our lovely roses are the result of not just selective breeding, but also of polyploidy. After comparing a wild rose and it's huge-flowered, domestic rose, it makes me wonder, what a poly pot would look (and smoke) like. The extra leaves at the nodes that you mentioned, could also be a simple mutation, not polyploidy. One word of warning, colchicine is very poisonous! Please be careful if you use it. DON'T spray it on a bud to change the seeds and then, after harvesting the seeds, smoke the left-over bud! Bad idea! If you try this method , mark the branch, and don't get "drift" on to the rest of the plant. You can just soak seeds in it and hope they will mutate. And because this is a poison, it will kill some of the seeds- how many survive depends on the level of colchicine. More colchicine means more mutations, but also a lower viability. Anyway, it sounds like an interesting experiment. Hmmm... Now where did I stash that old science supply catalog????