- Thu Nov 03, 2016 7:04 pm
#278506
Hey guys,
I'm back from my ~3yr hiatus, and finally got my TC stuff set up again, this August. This time around, I made myself a plastic/pvc glovebox, and have had a few small successes so far. I'm going to share some of my TC culture progress here, so pull up a seat and enjoy the ride. Feel free to comment/ask anything you like, but please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times, because these plants DO bite.
First up is a dionaea seed callusing up nicely, getting ready to be turned into dozens/hundreds of babies.
Dionaea muscipula "typical" seedling on callusing media:
10/26/16
10/30/16
11/2/16
Next, we have some Drosera nitidula gemmae that have started growing. They haven't been in vitro for very long, though, so I still haven't counted out contamination. There is a slight "wisp" of cloudiness under the surface in one area where the media is a bit messed up from my pipette I believe, but it doesn't appear to be growing like my other bacterial contamination, and isn't touching any of the gemmae.
D. nitidula on plain MS media (hard to get a good pic of these):
I'm back from my ~3yr hiatus, and finally got my TC stuff set up again, this August. This time around, I made myself a plastic/pvc glovebox, and have had a few small successes so far. I'm going to share some of my TC culture progress here, so pull up a seat and enjoy the ride. Feel free to comment/ask anything you like, but please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times, because these plants DO bite.
First up is a dionaea seed callusing up nicely, getting ready to be turned into dozens/hundreds of babies.
Dionaea muscipula "typical" seedling on callusing media:
10/26/16
10/30/16
11/2/16
Next, we have some Drosera nitidula gemmae that have started growing. They haven't been in vitro for very long, though, so I still haven't counted out contamination. There is a slight "wisp" of cloudiness under the surface in one area where the media is a bit messed up from my pipette I believe, but it doesn't appear to be growing like my other bacterial contamination, and isn't touching any of the gemmae.
D. nitidula on plain MS media (hard to get a good pic of these):
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