Rediculous, I took botany as well... no degree in that area but I know plenty enough to say that this absolutely will not work. I do not know from experience as I have never been ignorant enough to try and root a leaf. I do know this, a cannabis plant can NOT and will NOT reproduce UNLESS a pistil has been pollinated by male or a hermaphrodite female (or can pollinate itself)... before you begin to argue with your "degree in botany" you should realize that a 'clone' is not a reproduction, or even a clone for that matter. When you root a cutting, you have not reproduced, but produced an extension of the mother plant... since their genetics are exact copies they are the exact same plant, whether they have separate root systems or not. Rooting is, of course, a survival mechanism and works only because there are rooting hormones throughout the plant (concentrated near the bottom of the plant). A normal cutting has everything it needs, it includes a couple fan leaves, branches/nodes and a stem, a fan leaf is nothing more than a leaf and is incapable of rooting, whether or not other plant species do it is irrelevant. The leaf will not grow bigger either, the second the fan leaf is removed form the mother plant it has already begun to die. A real cutting can be cut as long as you want it, if you could magically stick a leaf on the ground and grow 6 new ones then wouldn't that happen every time a plant shed some leafs? Think about what you're saying, maybe even research it a little. I've seen people on here root entire plants (in order to grow a new root system/cure root rot) and you can root them with as little as 1 node, a node is not required to be underground at the end of the cutting but will allow her to sprout roots more quickly. LEAF CLONING DOES NOT WORK ON CANNABIS PLANTS!!
im pretty certain. like 99% sure that iv seen it done. back on HG420 before it got shut down. the guy cut lines into the leaf along the fingers/leaflets down the vein that runs down each. and laid it onto soil flat. pretty trippy if thats not a true memory
. id probably bet money on it being real no hesitation .and iv done papers on genetics. it definitely should be possible in theory as long as there are cells in the area that can potentially deferentiate into stem/bud etc. i wonder colonugs if you took that leaf and damaged the upper ends of it..perhaps its important that its at the vein site..if it would infact grow shoots due to new cell growth as it attempts to repair itself. perhaps not though lol..maybe im just baked.
