Cannabis Chimera

This thread describes what im talking about. http://biology-forums.com/index.php?topic=14035.0

Somewhere out there in internet land there is a published study from an American university that tried to graft MJ onto hops rootstock. The university study reported that out of sixty attempts, only two survived.

Originally Posted by kronickid

I know there has been alot of debate over this with grafting hops and cannabis and how it doesnt work. But bare with me here.

I realize that grafting one plant onto another plant works, however they are still 2 separate plants that are only growing off of one another and by definition NOT a chimera. Sometimes a chimera can sprout from the grafting site but this is rare and not likely. I looked a little harder and found that most hybrid plants that are engineered these days is by using micropropogation. This is where super tiny pieces of a plants tissues are used to grow clones. By taking tissues from 2 different plants there is much more potential of 2 plants growing together producing a chimera. From my understanding however you would be even MORE likely, in fact extremely likely of getting a chimera if you did this at the cellular level. If you can strip the walls off the cells and produce protoplasts you would be able to allow the cells to stick and share DNA between 2 genetically different cells.

So where im going with this is that you COULD genetically modify youre cannabis, either mixing strains or species, or go so much farther by combining a completely different plant and possibly result in a perennial plant that produces THC, a tree that produces THC, the possibilities are potentially endless. I however dont have the stuff or know how to do this, im going to do some looking into it and hopefully find a method that i can do this.

Im putting this out so hopefully to inspire someone who may be able to make more progress than myself.

This will not work, it is not the way the plant (or animal kingdom) work

regards,

i've found this topic interesting, i guess from the hops/cannabis stories of years ago
there does seem to be some potential for genetic change in a graft, though the particulars are not something i've read into too deeply
from what i read about the original story, the grafts done back in the 20's were measured by extracting the plant resins, and comparing their toxicity by the effect of some kind of small bug
they thought weed was poisonous, therefore if you kill more bugs it must have been from the toxic effects of MJ!
there has been no concrete results that i know of with hops/cannabis grafts, but if you run many grafts? big investment in time though

i thought this thread was about chimera genetics lol

Schnazzleberry

To the OP this is not the same I know, but have you seen any PAC strains and does any one know what the interest was in creating these?