Stage 1 — Initiation/Establishment. Tissue is surface-sterilized (typically bleach solution) and placed on nutrient medium. The explant (cutting) is usually a nodal section, shoot tip, or meristem. The goal is to get clean, living tissue established without contamination.

Stage 0 — Mother plant selection and preparation. Healthy, actively growing tissue is chosen.

Opus 4.5: 'Micropropagation exploits a property called totipotency — plant cells, unlike most animal cells, retain the ability to dedifferentiate and become any cell type. A single cell from a leaf can theoretically regenerate an entire plant. This is fundamentally different from animal biology and is why plants can regenerate from cuttings in the first place.'

studying plant micropropagation

As much as I want a nice bitcoin miner, I should probably save for a new desktop, and then a home server before another miner.

I think today's #SCT focus will be the intelligence layer: vectorization, semantic search, and the things that unlock from there.

I might just stick with jq instead of adding another thing to maintain.

Currently I'm exploring if the #SCT infrastructure would benefit from a more formal interface or communication standard. I don't want to over-engineer (too much), it's possible my JSON flags are enough.

With #SCT, I'm trying to design the architecture from the perspective 'what tools would not only benefit me, but also the AI agents I work with.'

‘Shell’ Ink: Sharpie Pro Chisel Permanent Marker Paper: gry mattr by joe mimran, DARE TO IMAGINE EVERYTHING #art #drawing