Yes, you can. People do. I shall give you a brief introduction on how to do it. It will be brief. It will still be very long and complicated, and involve a LOT of bleach. Tissue culturing plants at home does seem like fun, but in the same way that leca is fun but will …
One of the big problems when it comes to doling out house plant advice is that what works for one person may not work for another. Plus stuff that I can get won’t be available to you and vice versa. I love neem oil, but loads of people say it doesn’t work. But then I …
Discovered a single thrips on my Monstera and suspected spider mites on my teeny baby Ficus elastica shivereana. IT’S FINE. I’ve been keeping an eye on the Monstera – the adults hang out in the petiole bit that the leaf came out of. The Ficus is so small I just dunk it in the pond …
In my many, many propagation experiments, I haven’t found any evidence that top cuttings root any faster than mid-cuttings. There are some properties of top cuttings that can help them root faster, but if you have a mid-cutting that has those same properties, it’ll root just as quickly. What’s the difference between a top-cutting and …
I should really stop writing articles on tissue culture. I have a video queued up on YouTube all about setting up your own home lab for $200. I can feel myself standing on the edge of a rabbit hole. Still, all in the name of house plant research! Today I’m just going to cover why …