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Old 05-19-2018, 06:23 PM
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It seems that food grade Agar-Agar powder (a "vegan" gelatin made with seaweed) is available in Indonesia. This is the stuff that is on the bottom of the flask. Just saying-- the grocery store!!! Other things needed for sanitary condition, gloves, bleach to clean, should not be that hard to find. Clean boiled canning jars, plastic lids instead of metal lids.
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While it is not a perfect medium, it works. You can get all of the stuff including agar at stores similar to Whole Paycheck, and/or the grocery store. Worked for me.

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Interesting. I will try to flask using those techniques. Can I replace the sodium hypochloride with normal bleach?
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Interesting. I will try to flask using those techniques. Can I replace the sodium hypochloride with normal bleach?
Sodium hypochlorite is bleach.
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Household bleach is, in general, a solution containing 3–8% sodium hypochlorite, by weight, and 0.01–0.05% sodium hydroxide;
I tried bleach fume sterilization and it was a complete failure. I would not trust it at all. But perhaps I did it wrong.

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Sodium hypochlorite (NaClO), yep, ordinary bleach is great. It's what I use. It's also not a bad idea to double check the dilution factor reported by your source - commercial bleach is usually 5-8% hypochlorite, so just double-check whether your source is specifying the final NaClO concentration or the dilution of the "stock" commercial bleach. This fooled me once

Edit: to clarify - I use commercial bleach to soak-sterilize my seeds or explants. Not for this bleach fumigating method. Never tried it.
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I tried bleach fume sterilization and it was a complete failure. I would not trust it at all. But perhaps I did it wrong.
It doesn't work very well, and it is extremely noxious. This is something I wouldn't do unless you have a big room to get away from the fumes. They are really strong.
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It doesn't work very well, and it is extremely noxious. This is something I wouldn't do unless you have a big room to get away from the fumes. They are really strong.
I was doing it outdoors, but I also had diluted the bleach which is probably why it did not work. After I realized how simple pressure cooking them is, coupled with inoculating over a steam plume, I would not try the vapor technique again. My only concern is down the line for replates which is something I haven't done. Steam plume won't work for that because it would cook the protocorms, but I'll be trying aseptic technique.
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Interesting that the bleach fume method works for some but not for others. When I tried it, i was flasking Cattlianthe seeds. I had hundreds of seeds germinate.

Maybe other seeds are more sensitive to this technique?
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My issue was not seed sterility (well, possibly) but a lack of sterilization. The flask I tried to use bleach vapor on was one of the first to become infected.
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My issue was not seed sterility (well, possibly) but a lack of sterilization. The flask I tried to use bleach vapor on was one of the first to become infected.
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