Microclone Seed Starter Germinating Kit

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cp_ca_113

$65.00

The Seed Starter kit provides seeds with the greatest possible advantages for germination. The kit should be ideal for those attempting to germinate old seeds, valuable seeds, and difficult to germinate seeds.

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Microclone Seed Starter Germinating Kit

Tissue culture provides a microbe-free environment containing sugar, nutrients, and vitamins that provide developing plants with energy and mineral nutrition. This kit will decontaminate the surface of seeds, hydrate them with a solution containing sugar and a mild nutrient/vitamin solution, and germinate them on a sterile medium. When plants are actively growing, they are inoculated with beneficial microorganisms and planted in larger containers and raised as normal.

Seeds can be cleaned and added in batches such as when mixing varieties or doing a trial run. We recommend that with any new technique, the user should dry run to make sure all the parts are nearby when they are needed and that reaching them is fast and convenient. And of course it will be unfamiliar the first time through so maybe washing six healthy young seeds will give good practice and demonstrate how the cleaning and growing stages will go. Just make sure to leave enough of the solutions for both batches.

Materials Included in Kit:

Seed wash vial with thermometer and drainage holes
Seed surface sterilizing solution powder
Seed hydrating solution
10 Tubes of Sterile seed germination media in a 10-site trays of autoclave safe polypropylene plastic
8 in Forceps
25 Meters of Sealing Tape
Instruction Manual
2 Tubes of tissue culture Seed Rescue embryo agar medium

Additional Requirements for Kit Success:

HEPA air filter
Clean grow room
Florescent lighted shelf, such as compact fluorescent or LED-6W/sf

How It Works:

This kit will decontaminate the surface of seeds, hydrate them with a solution containing sugar and a mild nutrient/vitamin solution, and germinate them on a sterile medium.

Seeds are first surface decontaminated in the hydrating bottle in the solution made with the sterilizing tablet, usually about 30 min.
The chlorine solution is then drained into a jar or narrow glass as a sanitizing tool dip.
Add the sterile hydrating solution to the soak jar and keep at 76 degrees F or 27 degrees C until seeds sink.
Sinking indicates the hydration, enzyme activity, and change in specific gravity occurring to seeds.
Seeds that have sunk are ready to plant in sterile coco coir until they emerge.

Note: Coir tubes are to be sterilized in a microwave until steaming, then cooled for use BEFORE placing in seeds.

When plants are actively growing, they are inoculated with beneficial microorganisms and planted in larger containers and raised as normal. Seeds can be cleaned and added in batches such as when mixing varieties or doing a trial run.

We recommend that with any new technique, the user should dry run to make sure all the parts are nearby when they are needed and that reaching them is fast and convenient. It will be unfamiliar the first time through so try washing four healthy young seeds as practice to demonstrate how the cleaning and growing stages will go.