Watch This Before You Buy a Tissue Culture Plant

The fact I forgot to include Stacey's Garden in this video is eating me alive! Stacey's Garden, you're next.

00:00 Intro
00:28 What is a tissue culture reseller?
01:19 Contaminated tissue cultures
02:30 How to spot contamination
03:23 Orange Lake Nursery
04:26 What's in the media?
05:39 What's with all the bags?
06:17 Dropshipping
06:44 Where to Buy TC plants
07:18 LARPing
08:00 US Sellers?
08:35 How to Import Plants
09:35 What if don't live in the US?
09:52 childhood dog trauma
10:05 Drawbacks of importing
11:09 I'm a reseller and I don't like this video
11:38 Anyone can do TC

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[bratniii]

The LARP reference killed me lol. Surprisingly accurate here. Your personality/vids are my favorite! ❤

[firstname]

I'll be buying merch soon, but wanted to tell you I think your design is the best I have ever seen for YT merch! Also, your channel is awesome. I work in a hospital lab and was absolutely sure you had the same training or at the least a science major. Shocked to learn this was just your hobby and your background was in business. You are crushing it!

[katiewilliams]

Thank you so much for this. I was considering this and I'm so happy you posted this before I wasted any of my money

[jkoblivion]

Thank you so much for exposing this situation. All hail our Tissue Culture Queen!

[Scooby-Snacks]

Thanks for making my day with another video

[JFGSXR]

Thanks for your knowledge! Looking forward to purchasing some merch!!

[jonathanweiss]

Great video! I hadn't realized people weren't doing their own tissue culture for online reselling. I found tissue culture while I was researching Agave propagation. This was a really helpful video. It seems to me the best process for an importer would be to subculture upon arrival into new "stabilizing" media instead of growth or multiplication media. Once an order is placed it is transferred aseptically into the retail shipping vessel. And I would imagine a specific set of protocols for each shipped media so that the end customer is fully aware of how to handle and properly dispose of the media. If the plant is transferred multiple times during this process, the shipping media could likely be very focused on root development instead of multiplication or variegation. Working with Yucca and Agave is difficult to turn revenue when often the plants have lifespans longer than me and I've often wondered if these kinds of plants into the Austin area would support work on the native plants. This helps me process a little better how to do that in an ethical way. Im growing a thai constellation and another something albo in my greenhouse right now and I am hoping they will be a couple quality mother plants. Setting up a lab seems like the best way to go if the market is open like that. I just thought there were labs already in the US because I would love that job.

[Scooby-Snacks]

I'll be representing out here in Colorado, sweatshirt ordered!

[VincentOak]

You should colab with the thought emporium.
Make genetically modified plants that produce spidersilk.
Or glow or something

[thevalleysally]

I have done business with teenyplant quite a few times through TC101 group, everything is always perfect, tbh they're my goto. i have also been invited to their "lab" in Florida, I have not taken them up on the offer yet but may have to, i don't know how much is cultured in the US vs Thailand, I do believe they're doing both though.

[zzyehf]

That's just what Big Tissue Culture wants me to think.

[northliu]

The regulation for import into Canada is quite similar to the US, you need an import permit, the import permit has to be shipped with the package with a valid phyto. The difference is that the permit application is not free 😢.

[Christian-jzxt]

I want to try this with a new frass I'm trying to clone since it lives in a climate that isn't normal for the type. Just scared who to bring it to and not sure I would have the skills to do it myself

[Plantdaddytips]

I have no respect for Orange Lake Nursery had a recent poor experience with them. They do not respect their customers.

[SteveEh]

well....Dang....here I am up in Canada...just Kickin rocks 🤣

[TheRoulette]

so sorry for 9yr old you ....must have been tough comming to grips with austrailias import paws

[agentbarron]

You making it sound like rocket science tbh lol

[nome]

Let's start a thread on tissue culture in Europe. Anyone have any experience with sellers/sources and or importing regulations?

[sheen]

How do you feel about bloomify/orchid gene? I've bought from them a couple times.

[IggyJReilly]

I'm pretty disappointed to hear that the companies I've been buying TC plantlets from are resellers. It especially is disappointing and dishonest to represent them TC plantlets as their own. That being said, I literally have purchased over 100 TC Plantlets this year from all of those sellers. With probably half from Orange Lake Nursery. However, some came in looking a little rough but NONE of them got contaminated and I've had a 100% acclimation rate with these resellers TC Plantlets. So, while all of this is a bit troubling, I've either been very lucky or the reselling of TC Plantlets may be a fairly safe practice? Probably somewhere in between.