cultures

I was going to wait on posting this data for another couple of weeks. However, in response to someone's faith, I thought it better to share the positive results thus far. Lest he break out the votive candles and start praying over cultures..... Currently, I have been using PPM very liberally -...

I have been doing alot of reading lately for the design of my grow tent. go big or go home right?. Any way instead of wasting money on a co2 tank regulator diffuser etc and spending agrand. I have been following some vendors that offer live mycellium cultures in bags that you hang in the grow...

All purpose thread for all the cultures I have in the works. Most of my cultures are Nepenthes, but I should have a couple of everything...In the last two months, I have amassed nearly 100 cultures. I have listed the media in cases where it is not clear. Here are a few of the cute sprouts...

Hello. Jeremiah generously gave me some Nepenthes Attenboroughii seeds to try my hand at in vitro culturing. I promised to share any progress, so here it is. I frequent this forum often, so it is only fair that perhaps someone can benefit. Let me preface this by saying that I have never...

In all of my sphagnum cultures that are grown out (around 8-9) there are these areas where there are no growing points. Some areas are small, but some are big and it is annoying. I think those areas may have been too wet so they drowned out from lack of oxygen, but for the winter I drained all...

I thought I was going to receive some dormant rhizomes with no pitchers, but I guess these aren't dormant... ??? I made sure the medium was just moist, not wet, when I potted them. I put maybe a few tablespoons of distilled water right around the rhizome. These are in drained pots that dry...

I want to get some drosera to put in my greenhouse sphagnum cultures. The greenhouse is 50-60F at night and 70-85F during the day depending on the season. So I'll probably want something tropical or close to it because I don't want to deal with dormancy and I don't want to dig up...

Aight, so I had this idea quite a while ago and I've thought it through and it seems like it would work. The idea is simple... When old leaves or pitchers die, you cut them off and let them decompose on top of the medium. There is one major flaw to this, which is that it would grow mold, however...

Okay, so I had an idea that would be pretty cheap and it would make a pretty piece for my room. Basically what it would be is a 10 gallon fish tank paludarium. It would have a mound of sphagnum going around on all sides and a big puddle in the middle. The puddle would go about 1/3 of the way up...

I got some live red sphagnum from my CP nursery and it like turned green... I don't even know how that's possible. What I'm looking for is pure red sphagnum. The kind I got that was red was mixed in with green stuff, it wasn't pure red I guess. That's why it reverted to green. Red or purple is...

While admittedly not much to look at for the time being, here is a vial of Nepenthes hamata, from 2011 seed, in a media to -- successfully as it turns out -- promote some root growth; all too frequently an issue with the genera. Unfortunately, the cultures experienced an unforeseen spike in...

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'...

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...

Today I was thinking about how when cell cultures (human cell cultures, at least) grow for too long, they eventually decline and die because mitosis shortens the protective telomeres on the ends of the chromosomes to the point where the coding DNA becomes damaged and the cell cannot divide...

Have any of you ever used No Pest Strips to control insects with your plants ? Do they work well ? I was always afraid to use them because I always had tarantulas, roaches, stick insects and several kinds of feeder insect cultures around. I'm now "pet bug" free and was thinking of hanging a few...

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)...

Dear CP/TC fans!:-) I took shots of some new cultures in jars today. Besides the species, that I have already posted (and thankfully, are grown into big plants by now), I did some sowing on gel few months ago and would like to share with you the pics of seedlings and plantlets: drosera...

Hey all, After over a year of delay, I finally managed to get some sterile cultures going last March and in early May. It sure is convenient to have access to a lab with flow hoods and ethanol/supplies! The jars and gel/nutrients are all purchased by me though. I was in san diego all summer so...

I have fruit fly cultures for trade or for sale for $5.00 plus shipping

Alrighty, this was asked wayyy before a few times so maybe there is a better way today. Here we go: I recently received 11 plugs of various (mostly terrestrial) utrics. Very happy about it :hail: ! The sender warned me that surface of most plugs is overgrown with carpet moss but that I should...