Gabe15

These are some photos of my first home grown tissue cultures, which have been growing for 6 days. You can see they have turned green and are starting to grow tiny leaves. When they grow large enough and start to form real leaves, pseudostems and pups (in a few more weeks), I can separate them and put them back into culture to form more plants.

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chong

Looking good Gabe! How long has it been since you started them up to this point? And what variety(ies) is (are) this?

Gabe15

They are 6 days old. The close up ones are of Little Prince, and on the shot of the vessels the front left 4 are Little Prince (from the same plant), the right one is Musella lasiocarpa, and the stacked ones in the back are M. ingens and E. perrieri embryos, M. laterita and an unknown Musa.

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tony palmer

Gabe,
Thats fascinating stuff, i know very little about tissue culture, and have always assumed it would be vey scientific technical as well as expensive to set up, is there such a thing as a home TC kit? and is it expensive to set up, i am looking forward to seeing how your TC bananas come on.


Thanks Tony

tony palmer

Sorry Gabe I have just seen Kev’s post on the subject.

Mark Hall

Nice one Gabe. If the Ingens take off you will be very popular with all the members on here ( not that you arn't anyway)

Good luck with them. I shall follow this thread with interest

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griphuz

Interesting Gabe!
Is it a lot of work to do, and could you tell me something about the hormone-works?
Do you forst add hormones to invoce rootgrowth, and next different hormones to invoke leaf and stem growth or how does that work?
Kind regards,
Remko.

Bananaman88

Looking good, Gabe! Our resident Mad Scientist! Keep up the good work!

Chironex

Hey, way to go Gabe! Where did you find that hydrometer/thermometer? Looks like it would be handy for my TC lab - once I get started.

"Dibs" on the Ingens! lol

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mskitty38583

gabe is this your first try with the home tc? i think that is so very interesting! congrats on your new babies.

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Dean W.

Way to go!

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momoese

Very cool! Was it difficult?

hydrojeff

super sweet Gabe, thats awsome, i bought the book i think you were talking about, PLANTS FROM TESTTUBES, just started reading it, very interesting stuff.

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damaclese

thanks Gabe ones again you continue to impress me thank you for sharing that and please don't hesitate to keep informing us i cant tell you how fascinating it is to read about TC maybe some day we can send you some TC of ares!
Pauly

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TracyWV

You can find them in pet shops in the reptile section.

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Chironex

I am almost finished with the book and have all of the chemicals ordered. We just need to make a laminar flow hood. Gabe sent me the instructions on how he made his, so we will be ready to go once I get there.
If you can round up couple of quart sized jars, wide-mouthed, (like Mason canning jars or a mayonnaise jar). Also, need some 4 or 6 oz baby food jars we should have just about everything we need. I have about 30 of them, but we will need a bunch eventually.


I am so excited to begin, I can't stand it!

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banana berserker

that looks very intriguing! I'm stupid when it comes to tissue culturing. I've no clue what so ever of how to. can anyone explain please?

Bananaman88

Berserker,

Use the search feature and you'll find several threads on this subject. Gabe has a really good diagram illustrating how you start with one plant and end up with many. It's in another post. You can also search his photo gallery, which contains that diagram as well.

51st state

excel there Gabe, keep 'em going. you got the Ingens to work then . I'd better think of some more exotic varieties for you to play with, 'Xishuangbannensis' maybe? or Musa Sp. Yangtse (whatever it is?).
regards
Kev

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Gabe15

Not difficult if you know what you are doing, but without experience may take awhile to get right.
This is my first time doing it at home, but its my job in Hawaii, so I just took what I learned from there and modified it all to work without a lab and expensive equipment.
These cultures have in the media the hormone BA (benzyladenine), this suppresses root growth and shoot elongation but encourages shoot proliferation, so you can make multiple meristems on a single tissue mass. Eventually, I will use a very similar media except the BA will be absent, this will allow roots to grow, shoots to elongate, and no longer encourage multiplication, this will allow the growth of single rooted plants ready for transfer to soil.
I don't know if they ingens will work or not, I just put them in culture and am in California for a week, so when I get back home next week I will be able to tell if it worked or not.

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