Plant tissue culture (or how to grow hundreds of clones from a single leaf)

[testor]

I heard about plant tissue culture a while back and started to do my research.

Basicly you take a small sample of the plant you want to clone. Sterilize it. Place the sterilized tissue in a nutritious medium (see Murashige and Skoog) and put the lights on. The process takes longer than other cloning methods (depending on the plant about a month for an established plant).

Think of all the possibilities! You could transport plant tissue around the clobe and get hundreds of clones from one single transport! You could search for the freak motherplant and take a field of clones from her...

I think Dutch Passion is working on getting this method down for their clone seeds line:

http://www.dutch-passion.nl/en/news-and-development/clone-seeds/

For all of you interested in plant tissue culture some further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_tissue_culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murashige_and_Skoog_medium
http://www.kitchenculturekit.com/StiffAffordablePTCforhobbyists.htm
http://www.flytrapcare.com/tissue-culture-basics.html

I will do some experiments on this subject later this year. If somebody has already experience with this please chime in and share!

 

[OOOGaUtO]

Very interesting...I'm subbed, lets see where this goes

 

[cloud]

i seen a video on this ages ago i thought it was a joke at first but now seeing this it does sound possible

 

[cloud]

here i just found some videos that show step by step to do it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPQaMG_S-c&list=PL424B6104145140DA

and heres a more detailed one for cannabis tissue culture why only get 10-20 cuttings from a plant when you can get hundreds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtTjXELb-C4&feature=c4-overview&playnext=1&list=TL5ufiL4AXADI

 

[realcarlos]

Any of you guys try this out yet?

 

[nben]

I thought about trying this years ago but could never find an at home method of doing it. It seemed like u needed a lab and everything else... I would be interested in knowing if this would work with autos due to the flowering at proper age thing. One plus you missed is the fact that these can be stored for periods of time before growing them out, so you will always have growing genetics at your fingertips