Orchids were what my friend was wanting to work on. I did some reading on here before i posted but i think i might have got the tissue culture thing a little mixed up. I know he wanted to start from seeds and said something about a tissue culture.
I have banana plants and tissue cultures with banana plants are a bit different, so i think i may have incorrectly assumed TC in orchids were more similar to that. I did suggest working with bananas first since im already familiar with that community and bananas are generally hard to kill. (Though once bananas start growing they get huge.)
After that comment I don't want to say much about our non-profit now and dox myself or my organization. But we do have access to a small lab where we have projects and classes. He said that he already has the chemicals and agar. I sent him a few text after i realized seeds are so hard to come by, and we are supposed to talk more this weekend. I also bumped into a profile of his on a different orchid community so it looks like he got seeds from hobbyist before. So I'll have to ask further about that.
When i started digging i saw the thing with vanilla vines and i am actually really interested in that personally. I can at least use it for cooking.
But i will see when we talk later, he seems pretty set on the seeds.... Im going to guess because it's a challenge.
We normally do things like run simple PCR test, essential oil distillations, or electroplating. We are also planning a CRISPR project too.
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