~harris7~

You are probably right. I said that because I saw faithlessxxx in the chat room and I think he asked about that there...or someone did. I just caught the tail end of the conversation and that was what I got out of it. BobBong had said something about the plant sheding tis fan leaves when it was done and didn't need them...somehow I probably misunderstood. Sorry for the misinformation. So it can be done, but it's probably hard...?

Then when you said the thing about the "one cell" being able to grow a plant, I remembered reading something about culture tests...like cell culture or something like that where they shave off a piece of the plant and just grow from that!

I did say "something like...blah blah blah..." so I didn't want to come across like I was 100% sure.

BUT, I think this would be a really tricky method to do and is mainly for preserving genetics and stuff. It sure would take a long time.

I think that cloning from a fan leaf would take longer too. Maybe if you had to slow down your grow to let other stuff catch up, that might be an idea.

I would also think that it would probably require a very controlled environment for this to be successful, and like harris7 said, the success rate would probably decrease. Hey, sh*t, try it faithlessxxx and let us know!

I still think it looks funny.

TGF