Marijuana Tissue Culture Success!

im going through the post now

• tupperware container on its side... tools are alcohol flamed​
  
  
  
  

Alcohol is not going to kill pathogens. Even with a flame, you would have to keep it there for over 60 seconds. i dont have the article that demonstrated how ineffective it is. you would likely have high rates of contamination. there's a reason why ceramic/glass bead sterilizers are used in the industry. i cant imagine how the tupperware on it's side would do anything but block the airflow, and increase contamination

• Correct, I grow callus' of a few dozen strains, ..... this does not replace cloning...​
  
  
  
  

if you're growing from callus culture, you're likely to get genetic variability. this is why callus culture isn't the industry standard.

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• contamination issues happen because the explant(node,leaf,flower,seed,etc) has either been A(sterilized so much that it retains useless dna, does not flourish, and/or B) has not been sterilized enough to remove unwanted materials​
  
  
  
  

It's contaminated because you over sterilized it?? really?

• I HAVE NEVER INSERTED A BIOLUMINESCENCE GENE INTO marijuana.
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this whole talk about bioluminescence in plants... if this was so easy and possible, WHY doesnt the bedding plant industry use it? you're going to tell me multi national corporations wouldn't jump on glow in the dark pansies? glow in the dark sanseveria for in-door air purifiers?

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• heres the magic, after those rootballs(which can be divided also with great success)are transplanted into a cytokin/auxin mix, causing wicked like lateral branching and upward bonzai growth in a couple days​
  
  
  
  

you're introducing a callus culture to a cytokinin/auxin mix? first off, this would never happen in a commercial lab because it wouldnt make sense to do that. there's a reason why stage 2 media contains high levels of cytokinins, to produce shoot growth/multiplication, and auxins are used in stage 3 if you can't make the plant root when hardening off. stage 3 media is skipped because it's EXPENSIVE.

the pdf provided on cannabis biotech...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14571756/The-Biotechnology-of-Cannabis-Sativa

this doesn't provide the media needed to micropropagate cannabis. they say you can use the same media used for carrots. whatever. any real peer reviewed paper would actually PROVIDE the media recipe. they cant prove it works, and the experiment isn't replicatable. the paper is a waste of time

post 48 on page 5 shows a tub tilted on its side... he talked about using this INSIDE a laminar air flow hood. in a hood, you have air being flown at you at over 90 ft/s. this is to prevent pathogens. with the bottom of the tub facing TOWARDS the filter... it's going to block all the airflow. there's no airflow going over the cultures. if you work over the cultures, pathogens aren't going to get blown towards you and out of the hood, away from your samples. THIS IS POOR STERILE TECHNIQUE

i dont think im allowed to post contact info. im unemployed if anyone wants to hire me for anything. i have a degree. and stuff. let me know if you have any questions, im pretty far removed learning about TC, but ive been to commercial labs, have hood experience, and will answer questions to the best of my degree.

sorry for multiple posts. this is the top result for marijuana tissue culture. this kind of crap shouldn't stand.

This stuff is overwhelming to me but I'm very thankful I stumbled upon it. Will be coming back! Thank you for sticking with it.

pharmacoping said:

pressure cooker works great, and ul light mutates genetics, usually negatively, and usually irresponsibly. an autoclave is unecessary until you have gallon batches and hundresds of prepared vessels to sterilize.

if easy?? what the hell is easy kiddo? this is not easy. I use it to to put 30 more plants into play every grow cycle, instead of housing clones/moms. lets see...30 x plant value = ahhh, cant be done. you stick with that answer, and move aside as a provider of healthy verifiable pathogen free plant medicine.

many things in life are easy for some and difficult for others. For instance, intelligent technological advancements are "easy" for some to imagine, and very difficult for others to grasp. I would still be living at home if I couldn't grasp knowledge, or wanted an easy way out.

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angrygrower said:

im unemployed if anyone wants to hire me for anything. i have a degree. and stuff.

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lol, @ "stuff"

good luck, with your future, and employment. I wish you the best.

overmyhead said:

This stuff is overwhelming to me but I'm very thankful I stumbled upon it. Will be coming back! Thank you for sticking with it.

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it's still overwhelming to me ! thanks for the kind words.

Closetgardner said:

@pharmacoping,what strain do you prescribe for psoriasis? my cousin suffers from the worst case ive ever seen in real life(not on tele) id love to get something to help her out!! im not in a legal country as you can probly tell!!! and what affect does this strain have on the condition does it help clear it up or stop the itchy pain?? id be very grateful if you can help me with this.CG

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I dont have that disorder, but two past patients did. They used olive oil infused with a higher cbd and topically applied it, as well as dosed daily. its uncomfortable for some folks to eat at first, but the approach was internal and external healing. they claim now to only have these issues in places where they didnt apply, like the scalp.
I would saponate the oil like soap if was me, and use it as shampoo. good luck

Stonefree69 said:

Lemme guess - pentane or hexane?

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I've never used hexane or pentane for anything actually. I only use organic fda approved food safe solvents in my preparations, including water, the universal solvent.

good day

[h=1]What Kind of Plants Glow in the Dark?[/h]X
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Well I'll be goddamned !! plants are glowing all of a sudden using off the shelf components and a little creativity !!!

hey im glad to see your still around. i just read thru most of the thread.

i have all the equipment needed to do tissue culture, however i need to order some new hormones mine are over 2 years old. heres my setup.

my tent lab was designed for mushroom cultivation. i will no longer be using the tent as i now have a 12x12 room dedicated to tissue culturing and other mad scientist exploits.

i only have one experiment undermy belt in plant tissue culture and that was with 20-20-20 fertillizer and vitamin pills and shit. about 5 years ago.
i couldnt get the seeds to germinate on the agar but after 1 month in 20 jars i saw no mold or bacteria, so i succeeded in that regard.

i would like to learn how to produce this callus superstart and then see if i cant come up with a procedure to acclimatize them in my air atomized aeroponic misting environment

just ordered

iaa
iba
naa
kinetin
gibberilic acid
all powder form

plus
brassinoid
triacontanol
fulvic acid
humic acid
to experiment with on ex vitro plants

thinking about looking for some TZD as ive heard thats a good one according to a chinese study on hemp
i already have enough MS salts to make 10 liters of media. and enough agar agar to make 300liters.

if you wouldnt mind telling me, what is your disinfestation procedure for cannabis.

i own a ultrasonic cleaner, tween 20, filter flask with hand pump vacuum(in plants from test tubes it mentions that using filter flask with a stopper and applying a 25mm HG vacuum really helps dislodge a lot of bacteria hiding in crevices of the explants.

i also have all the other disinfectants 70% iso, ethanol, hydrogen peroxide, calcium and sodium hypochlorite.

Dude !!! your set up rocks ! I'm watching you closely now. Skip the TZ and the vacuum cleaning, least I do. your jars are clear, and that's a great sign, you've mastered the sterile technique, the most difficult part for most of the people who try. I've seen people work at it for a year , unable to avoid the fungus, and give up !. stick with it man, it is the hydroponics of the highest order . I lie your aeroponic idea. I use sterile water to roughly wash my samples one at a time. Then 70% iso, then water again, then a 5%bleach solution, then water again. Like you, I use an ultrasonic toothbrush cleaner. Since getting one of those I've seen NO molds for a year. I have control vessels more than two years old with no mold present. I recently transferred into a dozen 2 year old prepared test tubes and my developed calli look happy.I no longer use any of the hormones listed in culture. I make willow water and use it sterilized for pretty good success. Although my growth rate is slower I don't mind the couple week delay, trading for a hormone free existence. peace

your not using any hormones? sweet

im actually in the process of moving all my science stuff to my new house where my "lab" is located.

i would rate my aseptic technique as excellent at this point, based on less that 1% of my mushroom cultures contaminating.
it should be ive been doing fungal culture for over 500hours over the last 5 years.

i am in the processs of buying some Isaria fumosorosea. it is a parasitic fungus that colonizes thrips, whiteflys, and most importantly spidermites, and kills them. i will maintain and cultivate this fungus for my own use.

http://www.sepro.com/default.php?page=preferal


also there is a member on here that goes by canndo or something that had some positive micropropagation experiances. im going to start chatting with him if i can to see if he has any advice for me.

if i were to collect the growth tips off my favorite wreckage strain and successfully sterillize them.
what would you recommend i add to my media?

full strength M/S?
grams of sucrose per liter?
what do you do for agar. i use a generic non tissue culture grade agar. for my fungal cultures. and it works good. i know for the M39 MEA agar i usually make for mushrooms i use 20grams per liter. im assuming i want a much lower concentration as the gel strength is quite strong at 20g


im going to try your hormone profiles before i do much experimentation seeing how your method has shown you results.

have you ever used a culture rotator before. this sounds like the bees knees. not sure how this would work for the callus cultures you speak of though

i will not have to use agar for cultures. as a rotator allows for a liquid medium
the roots will never have dissolved oxygen issues, at least due to the presence of a solid agar medium.
and i will save time not having to worry about washing agar off roots.

i will not be able to detect contaminates however, so i would probably just use this for the final multiplication before acclimatization.

pharmacoping said:

after wondering why I haven't met anyone here with mj culture success, a possible answer dawned on me. This is the most combative,immature, misinformed marijuana community I have ever encountered. Some of these same mindsets are, fuckit, ..

I thank the couple that helped me find two forums full of like minded individuals successful in the art(evidently) of marijuana tissue culturing, botany, and horticulture. I am a member in these communities now and will probably never return here, well, unless I'm having a hard time figuring out if my female has been seeded(brown pistils two weeks flower, as suggested here by a member) or if its a male or female.

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hey dude can you point me in the direction of these forums. RIU is not where its at when i comes to plant tc

I dream of rotators man, glad you mentioned them here. I do not own one though. I would suggest a readily available carrot culture recipe for the first time cannabis culture. I purchase commercial tc agar now, but actually used gelatin in the old days. I don't share my cannabis recipe, but after your calli are thriving in carrot culture, unless blind, you'll know exactly what to adjust to meet your expectations, divide, chute, root, or get off the pot right ! With a hundred or so practice runs you'll have your own recipe that succeeds, and I guarantee you it's different than mine. cannabis is not as forgiving as houseplants an flytraps. You'll be fast and fine with your my-silly-um experience. remember hormones, less is always better, always, considering your culture can even do without them..i use white cane sugar, by the way. peace