https://www.wired.com/story/he...
Anyone see these yet , coming in 2024

We won't see annuals locally until very late April/early May here, but I haven't even read about those yet. Sounds interesting, I could see using them as a border in front of the row of perennials. But...

I do remember reading that all the cute fairy lights people put up interferes with and confuses mating of fireflies. I wonder if glow-in-the-dark plants will have similar effects.

Murky said:... I do remember reading that all the cute fairy lights people put up interferes with and confuses mating of fireflies. I wonder if glow-in-the-dark plants will have similar effects.

Other people have the same question:
"Jennifer Kuzma, codirector of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center at North Carolina State University, says she's concerned that the agency didn't conduct a more formal assessment of the plant's potential environmental and ecological risks. Even though bioluminescence occurs naturally, glowing plants could affect the behavior of insects and animals that aren't accustomed to it. "It depends on how widely these are grown and whether they were to establish more wildly," she says."

And here's the developers' response to that.
"In its application to the USDA, Light Bio addressed this concern, saying that petunias are normally grown in people's homes, businesses, or botanical gardens, where "nighttime illumination due to artificial lighting far exceeds light emission from the auto-luminescent petunias."

I dunno, that answer seems a bit superficial. The future is here: like AI, genetic modification has arrived. And also like AI, developers will use it for serious good and frivolous pleasure.

NJBob said: https://www.wired.com/story/he...
Anyone see these yet , coming in 2024

In a way that's neat but can't people frickin leave plants alone? First there's tomatoes with snapdragon genes, now there's petunias with mushroom genes. 🙄 I guess since we won't be eating them I can accept glowing flowers better than the tomato.

At $29.00 each, can not imagine there will be a lot of sales.

I suspect a fair number of people will be willing to fork out for the novelty. Whether they'll buy one again will determine its commercial success.

My guess is it will sell ok first season and then if they really perform will come back and the price will drop if selling more.

Novelty sells! Higher price points are enticing to a whole group of consumers-
expensive purchases = status.
not you and me maybe I say I am smart and savvy by spending less.

We need a cure for cancer. OK, I invented glowing flowers...

Tough crowd! I know I am very new here, but I bought two.

Yes it was somewhat expensive, but I think it's worth it.

This is not for status, this is so my family can go outside at night and look at them. Which to me seems the point of almost every plant. I don't care if anyone else ever sees them.

I'm going to try to propagate them after the season is over to see if I can get free plants the next year, and for something to do over the winter. I haven't told the family about it—I'm looking forward to surprising them with it.

Is it my most cost conscious purchase ever—probably not.

Just one more point—I noticed a year or two out there the lack of fireflies. I looked into it to see if there was anything I could do, but the steps I saw, I was not willing to take (in terms of creating their habitat). This is the interesting part to me, anyway. We've been in this house about 20 years. The neighborhood and surroundings in terms of lights at night has NOT changed in 20 years. For 15+ years, there were many fireflies. For 3 or so, there were not. I'll leave it to the experts to figure out what really is behind the decline.

Are any of these things around and glowing yet?

Yes, I'd love to see any photos when they flower and bloom for you, both day and night! At that price, I'm rooting for your propagation attempts being successful.