This video is admittedly one long advertisement, but don’t let that deter you from watching it. There isn’t really a good name for it, but more companies have been getting on board with this sort...
This video is admittedly one long advertisement, but don’t let that deter you from watching it. There isn’t really a good name for it, but more companies have been getting on board with this sort of content. It comes down to « we do something cool, let’s fly a relavant YouTuber here to take a look and make a video ». LTT does these every so often with their factory tours, and they are always fantastic. Maybe a good description is « actually good infomercial »?
Anyway, this is a fantastic example of genetic engineering a good product. It also touches on what I feel is the extremely arbitrary line that some people take against GMO. Is it a GMO if you kill everything except the ones with genetics that you like, and repeat until you have an organism with modified genetics? Nope. Is it a GMO if you kill everything with UV light and hope some of the DNA changes, and then isolate the genetically modified organism? Nope. Is it a GMO if you blast it with radiation to modify its DNA? Nope. Is it a GMO if you shoot it with gold particles that have some DNA attached? Yep.
I had heard about this company a few years ago. Initially I was quite skeptical. You had to buy their plant, buy their weekly fertilizer, all for something that works worse than a cheap HEPA filter fan. I still don’t know if the value proposition is reasonable, but the science they are doing is quite impressive. I’ll keep growing pothos anyway, so maybe I should grab one and propagate it a few times. Also their red pothos looked really cool, but it didn’t seem like they were available.
Edit: I glanced through their website. $120 for a house plant and three months of their soil microbes. Quite pricy compared to a standard pothos. And their website doesn’t give any indication how well the pothos works without the soil microbes. There is no way I am paying a subscription for a house plant (although the free plant replacement is useful), but I might buy one pricy plant and propagate it a few times for different rooms and other family members. But without information about how well it works alone, is it even worth it?
This video is admittedly one long advertisement, but don’t let that deter you from watching it. There isn’t really a good name for it, but more companies have been getting on board with this sort of content. It comes down to « we do something cool, let’s fly a relavant YouTuber here to take a look and make a video ». LTT does these every so often with their factory tours, and they are always fantastic. Maybe a good description is « actually good infomercial »?
Anyway, this is a fantastic example of genetic engineering a good product. It also touches on what I feel is the extremely arbitrary line that some people take against GMO. Is it a GMO if you kill everything except the ones with genetics that you like, and repeat until you have an organism with modified genetics? Nope. Is it a GMO if you kill everything with UV light and hope some of the DNA changes, and then isolate the genetically modified organism? Nope. Is it a GMO if you blast it with radiation to modify its DNA? Nope. Is it a GMO if you shoot it with gold particles that have some DNA attached? Yep.
I had heard about this company a few years ago. Initially I was quite skeptical. You had to buy their plant, buy their weekly fertilizer, all for something that works worse than a cheap HEPA filter fan. I still don’t know if the value proposition is reasonable, but the science they are doing is quite impressive. I’ll keep growing pothos anyway, so maybe I should grab one and propagate it a few times. Also their red pothos looked really cool, but it didn’t seem like they were available.
Edit: I glanced through their website. $120 for a house plant and three months of their soil microbes. Quite pricy compared to a standard pothos. And their website doesn’t give any indication how well the pothos works without the soil microbes. There is no way I am paying a subscription for a house plant (although the free plant replacement is useful), but I might buy one pricy plant and propagate it a few times for different rooms and other family members. But without information about how well it works alone, is it even worth it?