I know what tissue culture cloning is. That's not what OP is talking about smarty pants.
* thnx for clarifying
leaves can root sure..... you will get no buds or a plant
to put this thread to rest, tissue culture is nothing new, but there is no way that a fan leaf can be cloned and turn into a full fledged plant. it will always just be a fan leaf, but with roots. if it could be done, then why are we not cloning fan leaves? wouldn't everyone and their mother be cloning from fan leaves by now if that was possible? why snip a growing shoot from a plant to make clones if we could clone from fan leaves? something to ponder......i don't see why most of you guys don't believe it, it can be done with a number of different plants petunias of example, its the simplest form of tissue culture, when pluripotent cells (essentially stem cells) form they differentiate (as previously mentioned) into their cell types and these differentiated cells release hormones that cause other cells to reciprocate! and a new plant is formed....they WILL bud, as these plants have all the necessary genes to form buds and just like any other organism its porpoise is to reproduce, if you dont think it can be done, try it and find out....dont let your pesimisim stop the experiment, its important to be impartial or your results will suffer
hey man grow it up and see what happens, it wont be much of a wasteno bud tip no plant i once saw a chart broke down where you take the cuttings for clones from
on the plant and lower third was said to root the quickest
and top of plant the slowest
talkin about grow tip cuttings
never once mentioned individual leaves
there is just no way this could ever equal buds and a harvest -as a matter of fact it looks to soon equal death -believe what you must
ITS NOT GONNA GROW BECAUSE THERE'S NO GROWTH TIPS!hey man grow it up and see what happens, it wont be much of a waste
........hey man grow it up and see what happens, it wont be much of a waste
stems will form,then new leaves and so on....it wont be roots forever, plants need to reproduce....its like u guys are afraid of trying new things....its just tissue culture, shit its not brain surgery........
ya grow it up. if ya lucky, you might be able to smoke the roots.