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Hello everyone!
Sometime back,I have problems with my medium.Plants just turn yellow white.So I bought a new batch of medium from a more reliable sources.My vfts and sundews are doing well.But now i faced another problem.

My vfts are dividing very quickly but not growing into big plants.They remains around 3cm diameter with lots of plantlets.I am using 1/2MS and 1/3MS 30g sucrose/litre but no luck with them growing big.

I divide them every 3weeks and put them in new flask but it grew more plantlet instead of bigger plants.

Anyone faces this problem?

Thanks in adavance!

Do you use a hormone in your medium?

try to reduce the sugar amount to 25g/L:)

Thanks for your help!

No hormone is added from the beginning.They are grom seeds.

I have seen some one used 1mg/litre BAP and 0.2mg/litre Naa.Does anyone have any idea what is it used for?

I will give 25g of sugar a try!And see how it goes
Thanks!

darren4373 wrote:Thanks for your help!

No hormone is added from the beginning.They are grom seeds.

I have seen some one used 1mg/litre BAP and 0.2mg/litre Naa.Does anyone have any idea what is it used for?

I will give 25g of sugar a try!And see how it goes
Thanks!

Hormones can be used to induce shooting/rooting/callusing/etc. A balance of cytokinins and auxins is often used to induce callus growth. I am growing some dionaea seeds on callus media, and instead of growing like yours, they are turning in to little blobs:

darren4373 wrote: Anyone faces this problem?

Yes. I've had one grow fairly large in TC and the rest do like you're saying in what should've been the same media. I don't know the answer though.

Doomsday wrote:I am growing some dionaea seeds on callus media, and instead of growing like yours, they are turning in to little blobs:

I've seen a few people do this over the years and in all cases I can remember, the seedlings never start growing correctly after germinating on hormones.

No hormone is added from the beginning.They are grom seeds.

I have seen some one used 1mg/litre BAP and 0.2mg/litre Naa.Does anyone have any idea what is it used for?

I will give 25g of sugar a try!And see how it goes
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I do not understand why anyone would wish to use BAP with their VFTs. All the cultivars that I have experience with multiply very well without the use of cytokinins such as BAP. 0.2 mg/L NAA is an auxin and can perhaps work to help offset excessive branching. My gut tells me that perhaps the best best bet would be the following: 1) try 0.2 mg/L NAA, 2) increase your cycle time to 8 weeks until your height improves, and 3) break the clumps up into smaller pieces.

Good luck.