Regular clone ROOTING is much faster because of the resources put into creating the 6" + cuttings.
Yes. Which makes TC attractive if putting resources into those cuttings would cost so much in resources (space and light for mother plants) that it justifies TC, which only makes sense when you need shit loads of clones, but then, if you need those for yourself it means you veg and flower a shitload of them too, which gives you plenty of branches (need only 1 per plant in theory, a few for backup) to use as cutting, especially when the plants are subject to some canopy control such as topping.
Hundreds of clones are produced from only 8 sf under 100 watts of light every month.
Hundreds of plantlets. The required space and light for any amount of "clones" depends on the size of those clones and not on whether they are from tc plantlets or regular cuttings.
I totally get the appeal and TC has its useful purposes but in practice TC requires additional space and resources, besides time.
The increase in numbers is from the ability to make many from little, as in many plants from a single leaf or a calyx for example. It's not about being able to produce the same number of clones in less space. In practice it's particularly useful for companies who sell millions of clones to thousands of growers.
Growing a cutting in sugar an then calling it tissue culture, ending up with a weak clone, is almost as silly as some other guys at another forum pretending to do tissue culture with seeds in agar...
