Re: Tissue Culture
I have an idea for making hybrids of nepenthes.Either seed or tissue would work, and you would need a big clear plastic tube about 4 ft tall. Basically grow the plants from seed or tissue to adult in these Tubes with 2 t-5 lighting units hanging down opposite from each other. hard to tell when they would flower,especially the two you wanna make seed from, but then if u had room u could have more pods. U would need probably 4 different size of chambers, 2 each,and different mixtures for eah set up pod.once you got to the 2nd pod, you would maybe induce normal leaf developement by laying off some of the hormones. at pod 3 you could add hormones to induce flowering(i think potassium?) whalla! harvest seeds, tissue culture em up! save a few for the collection, and use the rest for hybridizing more plants. Now my question is, will this little fantasy i played out in my mind work? Can you grow a plant to a fully flowering state, invitro? thank u's =P
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