Go Gardening - Rooting figs inwards agar. Let's become Nerdy together with grow figs via Tissue Culture

Tissue civilization plants isn't a novel affair but it's relatively novel to Figs. I've purchased a few varieties grown inwards this method in addition to they tend to grow rattling bushy alongside lots of suckers. I wanted to try this for rare figs since it would brand feel to seat thus much endeavour into growing a Dessert King this way.

After only about research, I purchased only about cardinal ingredients to making the agar gel.

Ingredients

Sugar
Distilled Water
Plain Agar powder
Kinetin .1 gram dissolved inwards 100 ml if water. in addition to then purpose 2.5 MLs of that solution
Murashige
Sterilizing Tablets
Microwave
Cups alongside caps

The most of import business office of this procedure is keeping your travel infinite super duper clean. Which is tough because I accept ii modest boys that are constantly sick in addition to dear getting into everything.

After mixing the ingredients accordingly in addition to microwaving the solution until the agar is melted into the H2O I poured the solution into pre sterilized cups in addition to wrapped them alongside saran wrap.

The indicate of this projection is to easily reproduce rare varieties without having to lose likewise much woods from doing cuttings. I pinched my Ponte Tresa (which is somewhat rare still) to get branching in addition to fig production. I took the tip, washed it inwards bleach in addition to alcohol to teach ride of whatsoever mold spores. I in addition to then cutting the greenish stalk into footling pieces in addition to placed them into the agar gel alongside nutrients.

Keep inwards hear to spray all of your equipment alongside your alcohol solution. You cannot endure likewise cautious close that. The terminal affair you lot desire is a petri dish total of mold.

This is my 1st fissure at this in addition to for all I know I could've only made a tillage for a bunch of bacteria but nosotros shall see. More to come.

Update: 6/15/17
Just every bit I feared, looks similar I did non properly construct clean the cuttings in addition to I've got a crazy total of mold growing.

6/25/17 Round 2: This fourth dimension I'm using a Black Madeira. Cleaned extra long alongside bleach, alcohol, in addition to hydrogen peroxide. I also made certain to construct clean my tweezers. They may accept been the culprit the terminal time.

Update: 7/5/17
Well I'm actually expert at growing mold. Keeping a sterile surroundings is much harder than it seems.