Mother Plants replaced with tissue cultures?

[Movintarget]

I was looking at new products and found this, looks interesting. Does anyone have any experience using this type of cloning process?

Kit Includes:
30 Baby food Jars
60 Tissue Culture plastic jars lids
4 Packs MS Media Mix
4 Packs Gelling Agent
4 ml BA Shoot Multiplying Hormone
4 ml NAA Root Inducing Hormone
4ml PPM Preservative Mixture
pH Test and Control Kit
Plant Nutrient Correction Solutions
Forceps-Stainless Steel
Scalpel and #11 Blade-Stainless Steel
250’ Roll Sealing Tape
Glass Marking Pencil
Droppers and Measuring Spoons
DVD or VHS video
Illustrated Instructions with Recipes
Additional materials are available. Please call.

Benefits:

Greater multiplication
Super starts
Vigorous, bushy plantlets
Less space
Less light
Unlock hidden genetics
Easy and fun


Many different plants are successfully propagated by tissue culture such as ferns, Syngoniums, bananas, tobacco, orchids, and African violet. The Plant Tissue Kit provides the materials to culture most common plants by shoot multiplication or generation of shoots from different plant tissues. That is the magic of plant tissue culture. You can make new plants grow from pieces of leaves, stems, flowers, or roots, just about anything!

Universities and research companies maintain expensive laboratories for multiplying their valuable plants and exposing their hidden genetics. The Super Starts micropropagation kit provides the tools and information to successfully do plant tissue culture at home.

The plants become self-multiplying clusters that yield hundreds of new plants every few weeks, eliminating mother plants. The biggest plants are removed for rooting and the rest will go on to multiply and grow. The new plants are removed and planted in your favorite soil. Soon their roots are established and the new plants explode with new bushy growth energized by the sugar rush and hormone influence of the tissue culture media. Imagine a clone 5 inches tall with miniature leaves and 6-8 branches, a real bonsai that grows to beat any seed or cloned plant.
Any plant person who can make gelatin and handle tweezers can take advantage of plant tissue culture. Using plant tissue culture to multiply plants and make super starts is called micropropagation. Micropropagation feeds sugar, nutrients, and hormones to tissues of your favorite plants, making them multiply like crazy. Instead of taking cuttings from mother plants that require lots of space and time, you can multiply plants in glass jars and tubes under a small fluorescent light. The jars don’t wear out like mother plants and regularly make many new plants every couple of weeks.

 

[Wonderon]

Could be a big step for the growing culture. Very cool article, nice find.

 

[HairlessCaveApe]

Very very interesting. Been interested bout this for a while. I only seen a li'l magazene article. Thanks for sparkin my interest again! Itd be great to have a fridge fulla plant cultures waitin for you to pullem out and usem. Mabey once I get back on my feet Il get me onna them kits. Blessins on ya Movintarget!

 

[Mt Toaker]

I also have been curious about this, imagine the possibilities this is opening up

 

[DangerP]

I was talking a while back with some biologist friends of mine about doing this, and while I think it is probably the way to go for some people it has some distinct disadvantages. All of the equipment and chemicals cost money, the whole process of propagation is a lot of work, and you have to worry about contamination of your cultures, so everything has to be kept sterile. It strikes me as a great thing for people who want to keep a whole lot of genetics in a small area, i.e. a whole library of strains in your fridge. You also need to be scientifically inclined, have the resources and time to make and then grow out the cultures, and be willing to work up a pretty steep learning curve.

I think tissue cultures would be great for the very high-end hobbyist who wants to have access to all of the strains they want for their personal grow and and who enjoys the extra steps involved in keeping them. For most folks, though, moms and clones are still the best way to do things.

 

[PharmaCan]

You should pm user "stinkyattic" and ask her to chime in here. That woman is one sharp cookie and, if my memory serves right (a questionable hypothesis even under the best of circumstances LOL), she either did some research into micropropagation or experimented with it. In either event, you can pretty much take what she has to say as gospel.

I'd really like to hear from someone who has done this. It sure would be nice to ditch the domes.

PC

 

[Liam]

Another instance where Overgrow.com could have informed...

I recall that it did not work with marijuana... but memories a fickle mofo, so anyone else remember the conclusion of this method on Overgrow.com ???

 

[chosen]

Super Starts isn't a bad product. Yet, the person who promotes it pretty much knows nothing about growing. If you were trying to kind of whipe out problems that occurred with a mother plant through tissue culture. It would be a way to kind of start over. yet, if you are trying to do it to save space, why bother? If you are doing less than hundred of clones at a time, just use standard cloning methods. You still have to grow out plants that are from tissue culture. You also have to hope that your homemade clean room is actually clean all of the time or you will lose your plants. I've seen the superstart room prior to the guy selling off his store. They grew out some really nice house plants and what not. Yet, even he messed up a lot of plants. IT's alot of work for such a simple setup. It has some uses on a large scale, but minimal uses on a small scale.

By the way.... It does work with MJ, just not worth the effort unless you are a seed company or breeder.

 

[german_aero]

I recall that it did not work with marijuana... ???

This works with all plants. As mentioned the main problem is to work sterile and to inhibit contamination.
I have tried tissue culture with different plants but pathogens have allways killed the tissue shoots. With the right equipment it is possible at home, but with this great costs its not worth it.

 

[blackblunt69]

you can get a rose demo kit here http://www.carolina.com/product/191190.do provided the rose cultures are not alreayd in the medium coudl this be manipulated and aa cheap altrnative?

 

[blackblunt69]

also these people are doing one but I am unsure as to what medium we would need for our Kaneh Bosm? http://www.kitchenculturekit.com/kit.htm

 

[StinkingRoger]

This technique is just fair to expensive and technical for a lot of us to seriously contemplate.