- Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:43 pm
#364778
Apollyon wrote:Imagine a stable white regia would get around lol.Well, any plants that I've grown that were yellow or even close to being white didn't get around well. I've grown FTS Yellow for nearly 12 years now but I don't think anyone else in the world has it at this point despite me sending about a dozen or so to other growers. Without chlorophyll, any plant struggles to stay healthy, it seems. And that was enough to kill the plant in other people's collections. I just have 2 small specimens left now in my own.
Apollyon wrote:Could the compounds and hormones used create complications while the plant is actually growing?Certainly. But, as I've mentioned before, I've never seen it alter the genetics of the plants. I believe it is possible that hormones used in TC could cause a genetic mutation that would result in a change of appearance of a plant, but that seems to me to be very unlikely and exceptionally rare based on my decade-long experience with tissue culturing Venus flytraps.