Rick
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smartie2000 said:Wouldn't just flasking the seeds of the rare plants saturate the markets same rate as mericloning anyways?
Do mericloned plants usually bloom eariler out of flask? I wouldn't think so, but I might be wrong. Cloning is not as economical in "saving the species from extinction" as just flasking seeds
So far flasking doesnt seem to have satisfied the market since collection (or salvage) of wild plants still seems to be a common practice. Also there are 2 steps in the natural propagation method (namely flowering and germination) not needed for cloning as far as I am aware of. So bypassing those two steps can save you a year or two. And if slipper cloning becomes as easy as phal cloning you can ensure much higher production rates than traditional seed germination rates.
Who's to say what the future will hold, but I think it may end up the way as the phal market.