Media preparation for homemade flasking !

[halioscia]

Originally Posted by kosmickforestchild

I'm all for convenience but I love the idea of using natural sources for just about anything. Yeah, coconut water may not be the purest, most potent substance but it's certainly a very natural and organic method (..and i bet it smells like the beach!) Just like in the good old days where old time gardeners rooted cuttings in vases with willow stems (for the salicylic acid) instead of straight rooting hormone which often contains a synthetic hormone. I'm sure it's not the worst thing in the world (the synthetic hormone i mean) but i sure wouldn't eat it...as for the willow, they're highly edible especially and useful for a headache.

Hi kosmickforestchild!
I tried to Make Phalaenopsis Stem Propagations, preparing a media with homogenized banana and coconut water instead of synthetic hormones.
Well...maybe it's too early...but it seems to work.
Ciao.
Alice

[tuteca]

Hi!!!

I have a pair of questions!!!
I read in a pair of papers that adding something as 10-10-10 to the culture media could have future positive effects upon the adaptation ex-vitro of the plantlets. In that case, shall it be added to banana-tomato sowing media for example? -or it would be too much???-

Well, and talking about coconuts' water...
I have founded more and more frequently in international papers about adding cytokinines & auxines to the sowing media. One can obtain explants faster. Any with experiences about???

Thanks a lot beforehand!!!