canadianplant

Ive heard about this alot. And would live to try some banana, or my philodendron. You can do this with bamboo as well. But , how exactly do you do this? Can you suggest me some sites, or link please???

Frankco

Hi canadianplant,

Yes you can do this with bamaboo. I've done it with seeds but not a mature plant, yet. Jackie Heinricher made a nice business out of it.


Here's one I started from seed.

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MediaHound

Here is a site that may be useful: http://www.kitchenculturekit.com
There are also threads in this section that will be of help, just nose around and absorb from the discussions that are going on.
Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants - Bananas.org

Gabe15 along with many others here have myriad experiences with tissue culturing, and if you have specific questions, please do not hesitate to post threads and ask, because many others are probably lurking around wondering the same thing, and if not, for sure anyway it will help others in the future who are researching how to get started.

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Frankco

Hi Mediahound.

Thanks. The link to the Home Plant Tissue Culture site has changed to
http://www.hometissueculture.org]Home Tissue Culture Group

Here's an interesting tid bit. If you happen to find that a webpage has dispeared and you REALLY needed to look at it again, go to Internet Archive: Free Movies, Music, Books & Wayback Machine and type in the old URL in the Wayback Machine field. It will list the webpages saved at different times going back, sometimes for years. Then save the webpage! It has helped me out a time or two. It's fun to look at the cutting edge of web design back, say 10 years ago

Frank

well tried edit the link to make the archive.org look like it should but it keeps throwing in stuff about free music and books. It still take you there though.

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MediaHound

To avoid that, when posting, use the advanced posting form, and uncheck this:
"Automatically retrieve titles from external links"

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NANAMAN

"Plants from test tubes" would be a great book to start with on the subject also.

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Frankco

Thanks Mediahound for the suggestion on using the advanced post.

I started out reading Plants from test tubes. It's a good book and a good place to start but I found, at least for me, some of the simplest things are over looked. Take the size of a cutting you use in tissue culture. There seems to be a bit more info out there on it now but, in 2007 I spent a good deal of time just trying to find out that basic question. During searches of images and websites I found many images of plants already growing in tissue culture but it took quite a while before I got the idea of what size of cutting I should use for different plants.

A new version of Plants from Test Tubes is coming out next year about this time. Volume 4 is now being written/updated by Dr. Michael E. Kane. I excited about how he will update it. He says he wants to keep the charm that Lydiane Kyte and John Kleyn created in the original volume but, Dr. Kane wants make it more modern. Dr. Kane is a “teacher’s teacher” of plant tissue culture. I’m sure his additions to the book will help make it more “friendly” to beginners.

In case you’re are interested, Dr. Mike Kane is holding workshops about plant tissue culture at University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida on July 12 - 15. http://hort.ufl.edu/2010_Plant_TC_Workshop.pdf

Dr. Carol Stiff will be holding several workshops this year. I plan on going to the one at the Kankakee Community College being held Sept. 18th, (the date has changed from the website. It is now on the 18th of Sept.). You can check the workshop schedules here:
Home Tissue Cutlure Workshops

Bob Cannon is organizing a workshop for Dr. Carol Stiff some time in July in Palmetto Florida. Thye need a few more to get a workshop going. If you are interested check Bob's page here:
How to Propagate Plants Start

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stevelau1911

Was that tissue culture with the moso seedling ever sucessful?

I've always though that it may be possible to do it with a dormant shoot bud on a bamboo once the generation core is removed.

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