Allopolyploids / Autumn Crocus

During the 1960's and 1970's some cannabis breeders took to experimenting with Colchicine. Colchicine, a powerful mutagen for both man and beast, stops cell duplication, while the cellcore duplication continues the same. The colchicine induces allopolyploidy which is the ability of a plant species if giving at the onset of mieosis to produce extra chromosomes sets on certain chormosomes in its spores and hense offspring. This stimulates extra warmth storage and heavy fruiting in most plants, and also produces higher thc content in cannabis. It is found in a plant called the autumn crocus, colchicum autumnale and meadow saffronwhich is a poisonus flower. I have not found a source for the colchicine yet. The flowers are easy enough to come by with a google search. A few seeds can kill a average size man.

Any insight is appreciated.

A friend of mine did this about eight years ago. He made a "tea" from the bulb of the autmun crocus and soaked a few hundred seeds in the "tea." I don't know how it turned out though, if at all.

The extra warmth storage is probably why my triploid was growing so fast early in the year. My triploid has started asymmetrical growth. I put it in the ground and it makes a new set of leaves every 2 days now and its only 7" tall. Only 6 months to go.

Nice, A triploid will produce gametes but no seeds

Did you know humans can have triploid syndrome...
Triploid Syndrome is an extremely rare chromosomal disorder. Individuals with triploid syndrome have three of every chromosome for a total of sixty-nine rather than the normal forty-six chromosomes. Babies with Triploid Syndrome usually are lost through early miscarriage. However, some infants have been born and survived as long as five months. Affected infants are usually small and have multiple birth defects. Those that survive are usually mosaic, meaning that some cells have the normal number of 46 chromosomes and some cells have a complete extra set of chromosomes.
http://www.webmd.com/hw/raising_a_family/nord710.asp

Modern triploid watermelons (with three haploid sets of chromosomes) are unable to produce viable gametes during meiosis, and much to the delight of growers, their ripened melons are seedless. [Note: The word "set" is defined here as one haploid set of chromosomes.] They are produced by crossing a tetraploid (4n) seed parent bearing 2n eggs with a diploid (2n) pollen parent bearing haploid (n) sperm. Tetraploid plants are produced by treating the terminal buds of diploid plants with colchicine, causing the chromosome number of the meristematic cells inside to double. The haploid (n) sperm from a pollen grain from the male flower of the 2n parent fertilizes the diploid (2n) egg inside the ovule of a female flower on the 4n parent. The resulting 3n zygote develops into a 3n embryo inside a seed. Planting this seed will yield a 3n watermelon plant bearing 3n seedless watermelons. The following illustration shows this cross resulting in a triploid watermelon plant:

You will like this site Earthy Dank.. http://waynesword.palomar.edu/hybrids1.htm

Howdy Y'all,

Very interesting stuff,btw-have any of y'all actually ever toked any polyploid ? I did,back when I was roughnecking in the oil patch,down at Austin,in the mid 80's. It was not plentiful,and for just one quarter,it cost me 70 or 80 bucks,even back then. It was some butt-kickin smoke-I tell you what ! The college kids were the ones experimenting with it and I reckon,growing it too. I used to always carry a little pipe with me,to the rig and I could take just a few tokes of it and be stoned(fried):stoned: ,for dang near half the tower ! Although our driller didn't toke,he knew that when we had the polyploid,that it would kick our butts and he used to tell us not to toke any,when we had a bit-trip or some other task on the floor. Long as we were slow-drillin tho,he didn't mind. Ahhhh,the good ol days ! :D

Have a good one ! :stoned: