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I have decided to culture some food for my Utrics and genlisia. I have all needed equipment and knowledge ( many years of raising fishes for wholesale), except one thing. When I retrieved my trusty Tasco microscope from its wooden box ( I got this for Christmas in '67 or '68), it was totally...

Nepenthes Nepenthes alata Spotted Nepenthes ampullaria Brunei Spotted Nepenthes ampullaria Brunei Red x Harlequin Nepenthes x 'Jungle Bells' Nepenthes bongso var. robusta Nepenthes boschiana x mira v. Sakumpong Nepenthes burbidgeae x edwardsiana (2) Nepenthes glabrata Nepenthes x 'Gothica'...

Come and get 'em! It is difficult to do this, but I will be moving soon, and I don't want the headache of trying to take my plants with me. I have been growing nepenthes for almost 30 years and have many healthy and vigorous plants left in my collection, so here is an opportunity to get some...

Recently I purchased a tub of live sphagnum. I pulled out a few pieces to start a culture today. Then, I filled the containers the cultures would be in with dried sphagnum I had purchased and drenched in a container. However, when I dug through it to get the softer, wetter pieces from the...

Here was an interesting find from this morning -- the presence of live aphids in a six-week old culture. The section of flower-stalk that had been put into media was about 3 cm long, a single strand; and the bud was then as tight as a drum. To add insult to injury, the stalk -- from plants grown...

I've been wanting to start up some culture tubs of LFS for a while now. I know where I can get LFS to start my culture, but I want to know the best way to culture it before I buy it and try it. For the culturing tubs, I have two clear, 7" high, 27.5" long and 15.5" wide plastic tubs. Not sure...

I have some very pretty green and purple sphag i'm trying to culture. Just curious if anyone knows what kind it is. Thanks beforehand!

Here I would like to share with you pics of TC jars drosera graniticola drosera zigzagia seedlings drosera ultramafica drosera villosa (real) drosera hirticalyx drosera camporupestris drosera graminifolia 'spiralis' drosera kaieteurensis drosera alba drosera glabrata...

Just curious if I could culture sphagnum in tubs outside or if it needs high humidity. I was thinking about using it in a hanging bog garden for sarrs as well, right outside the greenhouse. I was culturing it in my greenhouse, but when the sun is shining (and I currently have no heating/cooling...

Here is a pleasant surprise from the back of the shelf: a B52 culture that began as a late-season flower stalk back in August of 2011. It was grown in a simple media without any plant growth regulators (hormones) whatsoever; and I forgot about it until I was cleaning up this morning. To give an...

Hey guys, I'm putting this together to show a professor of mine, but I wanted to also share it with you guys, too. Science shared is science learned. (Just made that up, go with it). So, lets get started! The specimen is D. capensis, and all comments are on the pictures...

Hello to all. Yesterday I was doing some work on the patio, and got tired of being poked by two branches of a smallish fig tree. The original was planted some forty or so years ago at the home where I grew up. Ever since I have kept it going and there are many clones of it around Texas and...

i been looking into culturing various live foods. but i have questions about the pproduction of a given type of culture i have the following cultures at this point . Red Wigglers White worms (just now getting established) vinagar eels microworms Black worms (in middle of getting established)...

I am looking for some fresh/viable heli/ceph or rare/nice nep seed to work on getting into tissue culture. If anyone has any I am willing to trade, or send you some plants back once/if they germinate in vitro for me.

Beyond Beginner's Information: Insider's Insight This was originally written for my friend whose interest is piqued in Carnivorous Plants. I've worked very hard on this, but I don't doubt that perhaps I've forgotten anything meaningful or gotten something wrong. Please correct, or add other...

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Here are a couple of shots of "Eden Black -- F1" (Cephalotus follicularis cv. "Eden Black" x "Eden Black") seeds in tissue culture media. Generally, I cold stratify half of any "known-age" seeds for ninety days; but thought it more prudent, given the age of the seed, to immediately put the F1s...

Hi, several years ago I bought several tissue culture Helis from Wistuba, and the tags have been lost. I would be grateful if anyone could help me with IDing them. Thanks in advance. 1: 2:

I am looking for a good tissue culture kit. Im thinking about buying one of these? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Plant-Tissue-Culture-Cloning-Budget-Starter-Kit-/320775614319?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aafb76f6f What do you guys use?

I bought a S. leucophylla "Tarnock" two springs ago at a garden center locally. It was/is in a 4"square plastic pot. It didn't really look large when I bought it, but it was the best I could get then. I keep my Sarracenia's outdoors spring to fall in full sun in water trays. Most of my CP are in...