live resin
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Many large scale established cultivation operations have yet to adopt tissue culture, which doesn't make any sense to me even at the current unit cost. I was talking with the owner of a 75,000 sq ft operation being built out in Oakland right now, and he wasn't interested in doing a tissue culture lab in Phase 1 of their buildout. I spoke with their long-established sister operation in Denver, and their Director of Cultivation stated they weren't doing tissue culture either because "we couldn't find a space in our facility that would be sterile." However, operations like Dark Heart Nursery have been doing micropropagation for a while, albeit with an astronomically high labor cost.
I was hoping the forum could come up with some cost saving measures. Labor and media constitute well over half of operational costs so whether its cheaper alternatives to MS media and agar, bulk-handling techniques, or development of cheaper robots with laser cutters and machine vision, any info on making tissue culture more cost effective will benefit the whole industry.
Anyone currently running a TS Lab, how do you make your workflow fast and efficient?
I was hoping the forum could come up with some cost saving measures. Labor and media constitute well over half of operational costs so whether its cheaper alternatives to MS media and agar, bulk-handling techniques, or development of cheaper robots with laser cutters and machine vision, any info on making tissue culture more cost effective will benefit the whole industry.
Anyone currently running a TS Lab, how do you make your workflow fast and efficient?