Episode 161: tissue culture explained
On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts
Jane Perrone
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
I learn about the science of tissue culture and what it means for the houseplant industry with the help of Chris Reynolds, founder of tissue culture lab Seedless Labs. Plus I answer a question about an ivy and a Dracaena called Norman, and we hear from listener Karl.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | I am your inimitable, occasionally irritable, but never insipid host Jane Perrone. |
| 0:30.1 | Tissue culture. We're hearing about it more and more in the world of house plants, but what is it? How does it work? And what does it mean |
| 0:39.2 | for the future of our plants? Chris Reynolds of Tissue Culture Lab, Seedless Labs in Massachusetts |
| 0:47.1 | in the US, joins me to answer all my tissue culture questions, and yours I hope. Plus we'll be hearing from |
| 0:56.2 | listener Carl in New Zealand for Meet the Listener and I answer a question about an ivy with a |
| 1:03.6 | soil that's turned to a brick. Thank you to Twana and, who both became patrons this week. |
| 1:14.5 | Your name doesn't have to finish with an A in order to become a member of my Patreon community, but it doesn't do any harm. |
| 1:22.8 | And thanks to Evie Mia 95 in Australia for leaving a five-star review for the show. And they write, |
| 1:30.3 | I hope there will be many more years of On the Ledge. Well, I hope so. I was talking to my husband |
| 1:35.2 | about retiring the other day and I was saying, I never want to retire. I want to keep doing |
| 1:40.7 | stuff with house plants till the day I die. I think he might be slightly |
| 1:45.4 | keener to retire and go and watch cricket around the world, but provided it's in places with |
| 1:50.0 | lots of interesting plants, I'll be happy to tag along. A couple of items in the On the Ledge |
| 1:57.2 | inbox this week I wanted to bring up. Thanks to Christian for getting in touch to tell me |
| 2:01.9 | that the wonderful podcast, 99% Invisible, has just done an episode about Pete and its vital role |
| 2:09.6 | on our planet. I do urge you to go and have a listen and I'll put a link to that in the show notes. |
| 2:15.4 | If you've heard me bang on about Pete in the show before, but |
| 2:17.9 | wondering why, do go and check that out because it's a really nice summary of all the reasons |
| 2:24.6 | why we shouldn't be using Pete in our potting mixes. Thanks also to Derek for picking me up on |
| 2:30.8 | my mention of leaf mold in the potting mix ingredients series. Derek writes, |
| 2:35.7 | one thing that I felt would have been good to emphasise in the segment on leaf mould is |
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