[arvin555]

I had a nice email chat with an experienced TC guy, he said that he uses seeds from newly opened seed pods to make sure there is minimum contamination. He mentioned that using cuttings from adult plants usualy end up with contamination. One possible idea is to surgically cut a growth tip (forgot the scientific term for it) with a microscope in sterile environment, but no one has reported any sucess in these.

I am wondering about the system in which one seed can turn up hundreds of clones... does that mean that once the seed germinates the plant is then chopped up and then TCed while still in sterile environment? I wonder if at that stage (plantlet stage) all the parts cut from it will grow a new plantlets?

TTFN
Arvin