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KT, I respect your works. Please let me know if you need help from an illustrator and graphic artist, I would be happy to help
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It looks a bit like tricocereus pachanoi, or maybe peruvianus......but the needles are a bit long
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Micropropagation, tropical trees, Mitragyna Speciosa
shonman replied to shonman's topic in Ethnobotany
Darklight, I do see what you mean.. I am continuing to feed the plants well, cutting back on water a bit.... Can you elaborate on dry heat and how this plant responds to it? So far I have mostly worked with relatively high humidity, It seems to help promote new growth.... I am very interested in the ghetto culture/ kitchen culture tech for micropropagation. Like art, though, you cant just dive right in and create a perfect masterpiece, There have to be a bunch of scribbly crayon drawings first! Hopefully some will be good enough to put the picture up, as it were! I have a great little digital camera, will post my experiments as available.... I think I will begin with Ma Huang seeds, I have alot of them... One thing I would like to do, is to get the correct media for working with the Mitragyna, or at least the right base components for it.. I want to begin experimenting with that plant from the start, not en masse, just a few and see how it goes as I go along.. Can you suggest any components for the media, or the media I should get? Is it better to PM you about is? -
Micropropagation, tropical trees, Mitragyna Speciosa
shonman replied to shonman's topic in Ethnobotany
.....use the leafvein of one of the seedlings grown in sterile conditions, to generate plantlets?...... -
Thanks! That is very informative. There are several varieties of plants I am rooting now....mostly the mitragyna speciosa, As seen in the pix in my post on propagating tropical trees, mitragyna in ethnobotany forum... But also Ma Huang, (from seed) And Psychotria poeppigiana...which I FINALLY got cuttings for....now if I can just find Psychotria Colorata... http://www.google.com/search?q=psychotria%20poeppigiana&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
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Micropropagation, tropical trees, Mitragyna Speciosa
shonman replied to shonman's topic in Ethnobotany
Darklight, I will do as you suggested.... The plants began the prepping process three weeks ago... They have many growing tips...I prune in a way so as to get two new tips for each one I cut. Did you suggest starting from seed to obtain a sterile culture , due to challenges of using buds from plants? It seemed like if I were to just grow out these new tips...With PPM to kill fungus, bacteria...Using each one just as a basis for a new plant... That I could get five times as many starts as I do now... One for the top, Four total......from the two nodes.....then stack these on my shelves with floursecent lights, or under 400w HID light....far enough away....they could just grow out in little containers by the hundreds. At least in my imagination. Endorfinder....I will definately be continuing to root from cuttings in the meantime....but want to do these en masse, efficiently...I am absolutely fascinated my micropropagation.... "Plants from test tubes" was where it began, then collecting the equipment a bit at a time.....getting started now... -
Micropropagation, tropical trees, Mitragyna Speciosa
shonman replied to shonman's topic in Ethnobotany
Thanks! I have great respect for your posts on micropropagation......I actually signed up here back in 2000 or 2001, when I ordered plants from Torstein...but couldn't find my old arrangement here....So I signed up again. I have done very well propagating this plant from two node cuttings using techniques I developed experimentally myself.... I am very in tune with plants... I have just started tissue culture/micropropagation, have assembled the supplies except for the right hormones, etc.. I wish I could fly you over here and start and entire botanical garden and epic classical glass conservatory, But my funds are limited..... Perhaps thru space, the energy of your thoughs, could move my hands here, and I could return a percentage of green energy For the spirit and energy that you put in.... I could be instructed, take digital photos, and send feedback as it went along.... Currently, I have 30 or so nice mother plants. They are very cool...most of them have been carefully used for cuttings over a couple years. This has made them grow low and wide. I kept them in smaller containers, one gallon, for quite some time until transplanting for increased growth recently. They are almost like bonsai trees! What I would like to do, is what you have done...I am impressed....would share the results, in an arrangement we could agree on in advance, if you like....I understand and respect the work you have gone through to gain this knowledge. I wonder if it would be possible to split the (green,new) stem at a node, and grow out both buds..... -
These are great setups for propagation, I usually use clear plastic tubs with a sheet of plexigass over the top... Never had much problem with fungi, until I had to move and setup indoors...only option is a room with carpeting. I have to keep high humidity in here for the plants....I now dislike carpeting alot! How can fungi be kept at bay in these cutting propagating setups? It almost makes me cry to lose a batch of cutting, I really am attached to my plants..... I tried spraying them with a mixture of one teaspoon of clorox bleach to one gallon of water.... To kill anything.....would this be likely to cause leaves to turn brown? Would it kill fungi? I have heard this will kill bugs effectively.....
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Thanks for the info! I am actually using some of the old version of Rootone to inhibit fungi, But some small leaf sections turned brown,...maybe too warm in there, too acid? Then it looked like the very beginning of fungus forming on them..... I actually did dilute the root one in water, making a fairly strain solution, and use that to hydrate the coca coir mix That I use to grow cuttings.........not sure why they are turning brown in some spots, maybe ph, maybe too close to light?...