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I got some gemmae of Drosera.
I want to start these by Tissue Culture.

But I cannot find how I sterilize Gemmae on web sites.

Can I sterilize it by bleach (I used to use for seeds) ?
Or should I use mild sterilization media like weak hydrogenperoxcide ?

Please give me some information or your idea.

I get four kinds of pygmy drosera and 5 gemmae for each.



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I found a post about TC of Drosera from gemmae.

won0507won wrote:

plantmanmax wrote:How did you sterilize the gemmae?

Um.. ( I can't remember well,) I did;

A: 5min in approximately 1~2mg of benzimidazole in approx. 40ml of sterilized water, and 5min 10% bleach. (and rinse, of course.)
B: 10min 10% bleach and rinse.

Both aorked well, but method B could be kill some gemmae. About 10~20% of gemmaes are killed by method B.

Please understand my English ability

I will do like this.


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pygmy drosera have very sensitive roots. How can it be potted to acclimate in peat without damage it?

Nice one! How do you go to propagate them? Only growing pygmy drosera in vitro doenst make sense to me. Or was it a "just for fun" trial?

Tobi K wrote:pygmy drosera have very sensitive roots. How can it be potted to acclimate in peat without damage it?

I’m not sure but they prefer soft medium for their root.
When I replate them just put the plant on TC medium.


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TissueBob wrote:Nice one! How do you go to propagate them? Only growing pygmy drosera in vitro doenst make sense to me. Or was it a "just for fun" trial?

both. I enjoy this trial.
I wanna try to keep them healthy in vitro, and then propagate them if I can.
some of them made callus on hormone free medium.

some of them died but I have no idea cuz same gammae and same medium and same place I kept, I found both fine and bad.




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