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A way to get the best possible price from Rega is to put together a group order from your society or maybe more than one. I got mine as part of a group order which was big enough to max out the price break.

If you find that most of the plants you test are clean, you can "gamble" a little by combining bits of up to 5 plants. (so that you end up with the amount of material that you'd use for 1 test... don't overload the test or you may get false positives) The tests are very sensitive so reducing sample size will still work. Of course, if you test 5 in one test and you get a positive, you have to go back and test the individuals. So it depends on whether or not you have a significant number of positives. And keep one of those positives around (isolated) to QC your test strips after they expire... they stay good for a long time but you need to check now and then.
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A way to get the best possible price from Rega is to put together a group order from your society or maybe more than one. I got mine as part of a group order which was big enough to max out the price break.

If you find that most of the plants you test are clean, you can "gamble" a little by combining bits of up to 5 plants. (so that you end up with the amount of material that you'd use for 1 test... don't overload the test or you may get false positives) The tests are very sensitive so reducing sample size will still work. Of course, if you test 5 in one test and you get a positive, you have to go back and test the individuals. So it depends on whether or not you have a significant number of positives. And keep one of those positives around (isolated) to QC your test strips after they expire... they stay good for a long time but you need to check now and then.
Luckily, I got mine in a group order.
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