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Originally Posted by JCDerrick
... While I'm fascinated by the TC process and have done a lot of reading on it, I certainly don't want to built my own lab, even on a small scale. I think it'd be much more cost effective to go to a whole seller like A-S. ...
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Correct. I found Agri-Starts (along with another local TC firm) very easy to communicate with via email, given a day turn-around per message. They were also willing to propagate TC's from a fruit-producing cultivar sent to them, provided you pre-pay for a couple of trays up front. This is very reasonable considering most of their business comes from orders of 10,000 to 1 million plants.
I've had great success "growing on" TC's by first putting them in a 4" peat pot with a soil-less medium for a few weeks under artificial light, then planting the whole peat pot in a 15 gallon pot under 40% shade (cheap plastic screen door material). I feed them 10-20-30 fertilizer during this period, then take the shade off and start them on 20-5-30. The corms have gone from pea-size to potato-size in 4 months.