Goonhub
12-27-2012, 08:06 PM
I honestly like the idea of being able to fuse different plant types together to form entirely new plants. You could even have 2 different forms of this.
1. Grafting: You use a chainsaw to cut off the branch/whatever of a plant, use fertilizer/some new chemical (whichever works) on the limb, and attach it to a different plant! after doing this, the grafted plant will produce both types of produce whenever it's harvested, possibly with the grafted limb producing significantly less amounts. For example, you have an apple tree and a banana tree, but you're out of plant pots! well, you can simply cut off an apple branch and glue it onto the banana branch (everyone likes bananas more) and cut down the pure apple tree!.
Of course, what will actually happen is people grafting psilocybin and rainbow weed together, but whatever floats your boat.
2. Seed Fusion: Using the botany computer thing, you can actually fuse 2 seeds together to:
A. Form an entirely new plant
B. 50/50 produce grafting equivalent.
The one that is activated would probably be based on which the admins have coded in already. For example, admins may have coded in some sort of ungodly sugarcane/slurrypod hybrid (sugarpods) that violently explode when thrown and give anyone caught inside the sugary 'splosion a sugar high. But maybe they didn't code in a chili/apple hybrid yet, so it will simply make a "chipple" plant that gives 50% apples and 50% chilis, at least until they make it into something special.
I would imagine that any plants fused this way would be horribly unhealthy to start, but could become healthy after several generations of good treatment and care by the botanists, and could possibly be helpful to the station in some way (fusing healing drug plants?)
Anyway, I honestly think this is a nice idea, and if nothing else is food for thought.
1. Grafting: You use a chainsaw to cut off the branch/whatever of a plant, use fertilizer/some new chemical (whichever works) on the limb, and attach it to a different plant! after doing this, the grafted plant will produce both types of produce whenever it's harvested, possibly with the grafted limb producing significantly less amounts. For example, you have an apple tree and a banana tree, but you're out of plant pots! well, you can simply cut off an apple branch and glue it onto the banana branch (everyone likes bananas more) and cut down the pure apple tree!.
Of course, what will actually happen is people grafting psilocybin and rainbow weed together, but whatever floats your boat.
2. Seed Fusion: Using the botany computer thing, you can actually fuse 2 seeds together to:
A. Form an entirely new plant
B. 50/50 produce grafting equivalent.
The one that is activated would probably be based on which the admins have coded in already. For example, admins may have coded in some sort of ungodly sugarcane/slurrypod hybrid (sugarpods) that violently explode when thrown and give anyone caught inside the sugary 'splosion a sugar high. But maybe they didn't code in a chili/apple hybrid yet, so it will simply make a "chipple" plant that gives 50% apples and 50% chilis, at least until they make it into something special.
I would imagine that any plants fused this way would be horribly unhealthy to start, but could become healthy after several generations of good treatment and care by the botanists, and could possibly be helpful to the station in some way (fusing healing drug plants?)
Anyway, I honestly think this is a nice idea, and if nothing else is food for thought.