Re: Coir for Nepenthes
dave evans (T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU)
Mon, 19 Aug 96 22:44 EDT
> From: TANWK <TANWK@AM.NIE.AC.SG>
>
> Incidentally, in CP Digest 808 Topic 10 Dave Evans mentioned
> " I am no TC expert, but I've heard this question and answer many
> times: Use seed. CPs are impossible to sterilise".
>
> There is a section on CP tissue culture in Gordon Cheers' s book
> (page 44 -45) "A Guide to CPs of the World" with photos of Pinguicula
> and VFT tissue culture.
What I meant was that it is very hard/impossible to sterlize the
plants themselves and much easier to use the seeds for getting
plants into TC. Not that CP TC is not possible. Sarracenia also
grow well in tissue culture.
Dave Evans