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Is this plant tissue culture cloneer legit? It's on ebay

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larry badiner

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Microcl...3269198?pt=US_Hydroponics&hash=item4ad0f492ce

Here's the text of the auction:

The Microclone Plant Tissue Culture Kit makes the speedy propagation of vigorous new plantlets easy for the hobby gardener. In a clean kitchen with a few household items, anyone can now do plant tissue culture propagation. The magic of plant tissue culture is that plant parts and growing tips are grown in a solution of sugar, nutrients, and hormones in culture tubes and jars. Plants are maintained under low intensity lights like fluorescents as they multiply and grow. Plants use regular sugar for vigorous growth, and hormones blow out shoots and roots.



In only a few weeks, a few plantlets in a baby food jar or exclusive plastic vial can multiply into 4 to 12 new plants. A small tray with 50 vials can produce 200 plants every 3 weeks under only 32-40 watts of light. Aggressive multiplication is one of the greatest advantages of plant tissue culture.



Tissue culture replaces the mother plants with a regular supply of fresh plantlets. Tissue Culture is the method commercial growers use to create acres of new clones from only a small lab. The Super Starts Plant Tissue Kit allows you to create a "bank of clones" from which you can withdraw any amount from a dozen to thousands.



In addition to the popular advantages of space and light-saving and aggressive multiplication, the new plants can be steered toward shoot or root growth using hormones. The new plantlets root and grow quickly when taken from the jars and planted in soil or plugs. A tissue-cultured plant produces squat branching plants. They will produce plants much better than conventional propagation when provided a superior environment.



The trick that makes tissue culture work is the preservative. Now growers at home do not have to have expensive lab equipment. You can tissue culture your plants inside a plastic storage container. The jars are sterilized in a pressure cooker which you provide and plants are cleaned with alcohol and bleach.



The kit has been so effective that users have traveled around the US and to other countries with my kit and set up brand new in only a few hours. Tissue culture plants are tough enough to be sold in gift shops around the world and carried on airplanes. In fact, tissue culture plants from Costa Rica and Hawaii are recognized by authorities as "phytosanitary" and allowed into the country.



If you are interested in plant tissue culture at all, you are encouraged to purchase the Super Starts Plant Tissue Culture Kit right away and begin to put your plant into culture. The first steps are easy and the plant will begin to grow in its new environment quickly. "Buy it and do it as soon as you can. I wish I had not waited".





Kit contains tools, materials, and instructions to culture 4 cycles of growing including one cycle of tissue culture rooting. items in the kit include:

50 Plastic culture vials and heat tolerant plastic tray

30 Clear heat tolerant plastic lids

16 Tissue culture tubes in rack

Three packs multiplication media-make 1 liter each

One pack rooting media-make 1 liter each

5ml Preservative mix spare

Stainless Steel Scalpel and blade

8" forceps

PVC sealing tape

pH testing and correction kit

50-page instruction manual with color photos and illustrations

DVD video-See our videos on You-tube under Microclone Tissue Culture




The Super Starts tissue culture kit retails for $253.00 in stores. Please also see the Tissue Culture Starter kit listed on eBay and videos on youtube.





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only one left with 5hrs to go, I'm probably not going to bid because it looks like a scam
 

purple_man

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imho, could be interesting for playing around, but without a sterile working environment (laminar flow hood or a diy version), and without an autoclave for media and utensils sterilization, you ll have to high a contamination rate to make it feasible.

good luck!
blessss
 

accessndx

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Tissue culture is 'da bomb and is certainly feasible. I do have an autoclave...but no flow hood. Been playing around with it for almost a month now and I have to say I'm unduly impressed.​
 

Kant C Shyt

Active member
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Hey larry badiner, very interesting thread thanks for sharing. I hadn't really thought too much about this as doing my own tissue cultures but it definitely is worth looking into and now the possibilities are vast :). Bout to do some research and see what I might be able to come up with maybe by the end of the year. Take care 1
 

GranolaCornhola

New member
You don't need a flow hood, you can make a simple glove box with a high success rate. Also an autoclave is not necessary, you can also use a basic pressure cooker that gets to 15 PSI.

The price on the kit is hella expensive, you can get the individual components for far less. Orchid growers do it all the time, I did it in college. A really good book to get that explains the theories in detail, as well as the basic labwork is "plants from test tubes". Cant remember the author off hand though.
 

DrKanobie

Active member
I am completely new to this but I have been doing some reading on the subject. Is it possible to make successful clones from small sections of stem or separated leaf pieces?
 
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