Biotope One

Ever wish you could clone your favorite houseplant? Now you can!
This book teaches you how to multiply plants like Monstera, orchids, and even carnivorous plants—right from your kitchen. No fancy lab needed. If you can cook, you can tissue culture.
Grow more, spend less, and turn one plant into hundreds!

Plant Tissue Culture: A Home-Based Guide: How to Practice Plant Tissue Culture on a Budget Plant Tissue Culture: A Home-Based Guide: How to Practice Plant Tissue Culture on a Budget

Anyone catch and keep their own aquarium fish?

The Art of Microfishing is giving away a COMPLETE Telescopic Micro Fishing kit. You can like the FB page or Instagram page and tag two of your buddies. We will pick the winner Feb 1. US only. Ships to US address only.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2Ec5WEPCjQ/

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How many of you guys are interested in plant tissue culture? What kind of topics on plants would you like to see next?

How many of you have kept wild caught natives in the aquarium? Here's a quick rundown on catching and keeping wild caught micro fish in the aquarium on hook and line microfishing.

Catching Care and Keeping of Native Fish for the Aquarium Caught by Microfishing - The Art of Micro Fishing Catching and keeping native fish in an aquarium is an exciting activity for new hobbyists and old aquarists alike. It is very much like keeping tropical fish except you are keeping local fish. Minnows like dace, darters, and shiners can make great tank inhabitants. It can open new doors for all expe...

I finished writing my book about propagating plants using plant tissue culture. I had posted short articles about TC and got a ton of questions about how to do it.

I wrote the book as simple as I could explain it. It covers getting plants into TC, multiplication, rooting them, and hardening them off.

It tells how to make and measure the plant growth regulators, media, and sterilizers. It explains how to make solutions that are easy to use and measure.

I've explained it as simply as I could. I had posted a lot of material before and received positive feedback. The trailer article got more than 20,000 views with good feedback.

If you want to start plant tissue culture this is a good start I believe. I wrote it all from my personal experience learning plant tissue culture while improvising supplies learning the hardest bits.

Plant Tissue Culture: A Home-Based Guide: How to Practice Plant Tissue Culture on a Budget Plant Tissue Culture: A Home-Based Guide: How to Practice Plant Tissue Culture on a Budget

Are you looking for a place to sell fish and plants?

TC cup of d tokanensis. I don't even know how many plants can be in there.

Founded in 1826, the society established London Zoo in Regent’s Park initially for scientific study exclusively; it was over twenty years later before the public was admitted to help fund its work.

British zoos are starving to death – and the most historic of all may be about to slip away The Zoological Society of London’s work has saved species across the globe. Now, amidst the footfall famine of the pandemic – and an uncertain post-lockdown...

Coral propagation! Nice to see more of it. Corals can be propagated at home with cement plugs and glue. Some of the operations in Florida were amazing in the amount of other organisms that came around when the frames started to mature and grow.

With No Tourists, Australian Scuba Tours Are Planting Coral Instead Tour operators in Australia are giving back to the Great Barrier Reef by repurposing their idle vessels and staff for coral restoration missions.

I sometimes press plants that I grow or collect for future reference or just to look at. I don't have a huge collection but I started after I made a visit to Kew Gardens and saw some in the galleries. I hadn't considered them art until then for some reason.

Have any of you considered making herbarium pages?

Below is a link to a PDF about pressing plants for a collection.

pages.wustl.edu

Lots of plant and pet businesses are probably being negatively affected by quarantines and lower foot traffic.

Millions of Orchids Are Being Thrown Out by Top World Exporter As global tourism collapses, so does the orchid industry in top exporter Thailand, where the flowers are regarded as a symbol of hospitality.