Advice from a tissue culture company on acclimation of TC plants

[Fishfur]

Since I don’t have permission to post this entire article, it is only a link. This article addresses acclimation for terrestrial TC plants in commercial settings rather than aquatic ones for the hobbyist specifically, but much of what they say shouldn’t come as too great a surprise to anyone who’s had failures with tissue cultured plants.

Tropica provides zero advice on how to acclimate their 1-2-Grow plants, in fact, their instructions are incredibly simplistic & rudimentary with zero mention of any need to acclimate the plants. But most TC plants come without any instructions whatsoever.

It seems to me to that ignoring the entire topic is a real disservice to us, the end users, even though it takes additional time & effort to acclimate them, it’s worth it.

Have a look and see what they have to say.

How To Acclimate Plants From Tissue Culture Ultimate Step by Step Guid - Plant Cell Technology

Contains everything you need to successfully acclimate tissue culture plants for thriving life outside the lab. Lab to Life: Understand Why Acclimation MattersDiscover why even strong, healthy plantlets can fail after tissue culture—and how to help them survive and thrive by mastering the...

plantcelltechnology.com

 

[Bradders]

Very interesting. My current pre-conceptions are that TC are easier than amersed in terms of 'beding in' due to the below:

• Grown underwater
• No ermesred transition required
• No pests or algae

I need to read that document!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

This article addresses acclimation for terrestrial TC plants in commercial settings rather than aquatic ones for the hobbyist specifically, but much of what they say shouldn’t come as too great a surprise to anyone who’s had failures with tissue cultured plants.

Tropica provides zero advice on how to acclimate their 1-2-Grow plants, in fact, their instructions are incredibly simplistic & rudimentary with zero mention of any need to acclimate the plants. But most TC plants come without any instructions whatsoever.

It seems to me to that ignoring the entire topic is a real disservice to us, the end users, even though it takes additional time & effort to acclimate them, it’s worth it.

I couldn't agree more.

I need to read that document!

I have a historical artefact for you <"Eradicate algae altogether from the tank - Theory">.

When I worked in the horticultural industry in the 1980's, tissue cultured plants were the next big thing. They have revolutionised some bits of the industry (that is where all the cheap Orchids have come from) and meant that "virus free" stock of many old cultivars of Strawberries, Carnations, Double Primroses etc. can be created and the bulked up really quickly .......... The problems we had were with tissue cultured Roses. A lot of Roses won't grow from cuttings, so cultivars are usually produced by "T budding", that is taking a dormant bud from the rose cultivar you want to propagate (this is called the scion), and then placing it into a T shaped slot cut in the bark of a growing rose "stock", that is a rose seedling, (usually of a thornless strain of Rosa dumetorum "laxa" ). The trick is to get the cambial layers of the stock and scion to line up and them grow together (or "take") and then later you cut the head of the stock of just above the bud of the scion, this grows out giving you the rose you want on the root of the stock. As you can imagine this is quite an expensive and time consuming process, so tissue culture looked a really good proposition.

The problem with the Roses was weaning, we bought them in the agar blocks (like the Tropica 1-2 Grow ones), but most of them used to die in the months after potting into potting compost, so to reduce mortality the plants used to have to go into a shade tunnel with a fogging machine etc. and soon they worked out more expensive than the traditional method, so it was back to the budding.

cheers Darrel

 

[Fishfur]

Hi all,


I couldn't agree more.

I have a historical artefact for you <"Eradicate algae altogether from the tank - Theory">.


cheers Darrel

Thanks for the trip in the Wayback machine 🙂.

I can remember reading about TC being a huge breakthrough, long, long ago. At the time it sounded like science fiction & I sure didn’t see it developing as it has.

But nothing produced by the hand of man is perfect.

That “1-2-Grow” label on Tropica’s TC has come to really bug me, since next to none of them actually do.

 

[Fishfur]

Very interesting. My current pre-conceptions are that TC are easier than amersed in terms of 'beding in' due to the below:

• Grown underwater
• No ermesred transition required
• No pests or algae

I need to read that document!

They’re definitely NOT grown underwater! Those cups have air inside so the plants are growing emersed in high humidity.

So there is no avoiding the need for adapting to submersion & unfortunately, because they are so pampered & coddled & young, many of them just don’t make the transition. That can become painfully expensive.

 

[Bradders]

They’re definitely NOT grown underwater! Those cups have air inside so the plants are growing emersed in high humidity.

So there is no avoiding the need for adapting to submersion & unfortunately, because they are so pampered & coddled & young, many of them just don’t make the transition. That can become painfully expensive.

I told you I need to read that document! 😀