VFT seed raised vs tissue culture
 

hi
Here some new Pictures
both comes from the same batch Seeds and sowed in the same month.

http://pics.nepenthes.se/forumpics/01.09/img_1092.jpg

http://pics.nepenthes.se/forumpics/01.09/img_1095.jpg


here some pictures of D. muscipula "B52"
26.10.2008 on multiplication medium
http://pics.nepenthes.se/forumpics/01.09/img_0416.jpg

08.11.2008 now on plain medium
http://pics.nepenthes.se/forumpics/01.09/img_0658.jpg

25.11.2008
http://pics.nepenthes.se/forumpics/01.09/img_0864.jpg

17.12.2008
http://pics.nepenthes.se/forumpics/01.09/img_1006.jpg

03.01.2009
http://pics.nepenthes.se/forumpics/01.09/img_1096.jpg

Re: VFT race seed vs tissue culture
 

Interesting, have you ever tasted the multiplication medium? it looks like jello. It seems pretty clear who the winner was. And all those people were smashing tissue culture for neps.

Re: VFT race seed vs tissue culture
 

That is interesting... It is double size...

For TC, the most critical step is, hardening TC plant to adapt to normal environment...

Re: VFT race seed vs tissue culture
 

But the VFT in the TC jelly doesn't have red traps........

Re: VFT race seed vs tissue culture
 

Thats because its still small.

Re: VFT race seed vs tissue culture
 

OoOoO TC Owns!!!!!............Anyways seed growns are always better..........Good job and very good pics

Ken

Re: VFT race seed vs tissue culture
 

Where to get TC jelly?Nurseries don't sell them so........

Re: VFT race seed vs tissue culture
 

Hi Marvin

Nurseries almost 100% don't sell them........If i'm not mistaken once i searched for it and found some website selling those agars and stuff......So check out the net.

Ken

Re: VFT race seed vs tissue culture
 

Why do you need TC Jellies, Marvin? Just grow and propagate plants normally. Leave the TC to the experts. or else its just a waste of time and money when it gets contaminated.

Re: VFT race seed vs tissue culture
 

May I know what lighting condition you keep your TC and your plantlet? Same conditions? What is light source? Interesting that the TC medium is light blue in color.

TTFN
Arvin

Re: VFT seed raised vs tissue culture
 

Hi

I´m using for tc and those small seedlings the same light. I grow them under 39W T5 light bulbs

Re: VFT seed raised vs tissue culture
 

The main advantage of TC is lots of plants in a short period of time. Ideal for cultivars.
Advantages for seed grown plants is better adaption to the local conditions, the change of something new and unusual and it is cheaper than tissue culture.

Re: VFT seed raised vs tissue culture
 

Thank for the info about lighting conditions, hoping to find time eventually to try some TC of my own.

I have not yet had any experience acclimitizing TC plants to local environment and light, so not sure how difficult it is, but I imagine that the best way is to wait until the plant is big enough, big plant hopefully will mean better against stress.

TTFN
Arvin

Re: VFT seed raised vs tissue culture
 

Hi

It is not very hard to acclimtice plants from TC.
I bake the soil mix before i put the plants out of TC.
Then i put the plants out, rinse them under water and wash all the agar of.
After planting them in the baked soil i use those small plastic greenhouses to hold the RH up for 1-2 weeks.
After this time i open the cover every week more.

Jens