How to Get Rid of ANY Plant Virus (Meristem Culture Tutorial)

Welcome to my mini meristem culture tutorial (also sometimes called "shoot culture" or “apical meristem culture") + a Light Bio Firefly glow-in-the-dark Petunia update!
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[@jackaldgaf]

The tomatoes we've all been waiting for

[@Scooby-Snacks]

Legalize Tomatoes 🍅

[@LioLi-Potcast]

100%

[@nonsequitor]

Europe here: we don't have a problem with the soda bucket. We think you guys have a problem with soda buckets...but you do you 😉

[@briansplantlife]

That is why my great-great-great grandparents left Europe....

[@casualgardeningwithdustin]

The intensity of the glow on the firefly petunias isn't consistent. They're engineered to glow in the dark and not to waste that energy during the day. So taking your petunias into a closet during the day isn't going to give you a realistic impression of their capacity to glow. It takes them a while to decide it's night time and start kicking out that sweet, sweet bioluminescence. This is a problem for me because I'm a middle-aged man and after dark is way past my bedtime. But sometimes I can enjoy their glow in the mornings before sunrise when I'm stumbling through the dark like the aging freak I am.

[@Scooby-Snacks]

If you can't get all the way to the meristem, And end up with maybe 2mm -5mm What are the odds you remove most pathogens and problems and diseases? I realize you probably won't be able to remove HLVD, But if that's not your goal, do you still have to go so tiny?

[@xannmax]

Its a shame the petunias didnt end up glowing as much as they could have. I'm hoping sometime soon we can have brightly glowing plants in a variety of colors!

[@albertvanlingen7590]

the marketing material used a camera with VERY VERY high ISO sensitivity...

[@EverythingPlants]

How close are you to getting your own SWIG franchise???? Haha As a Canadian.....I have never heard of this place

[@copyjockeynk]

I got my firefly petunia the other day! It really does glow, but I think it is still recovering from being shipped. I'll share some pics on the discord when I get a chance!

[@stephenohimor1784]

I just got the firefly petunias. Expectations are low. Gotta support cool science experiments though.

[@casualallisterenjoyer1715]

THE VIDEO THAT ONE COMMENTER HAS BEEN ASKING FOR IS OUT

[@Scooby-Snacks]

THE VIDEO I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!! I'VE BEEN WORKING ON MARISTEM CULTURING TRYING TO REMOVE HLVD.

[@Scooby-Snacks]

I 💚 🌱 + 🫙

[@PLAYERSLAYER_22]

Exacto brand: nervous glaring

[@briansplantlife]

So meristem culture for cleaning up viruses saved big portions of the horticultural trade -- Pelargonium ("Geraniums") for example. Also -- I think next spring I am buying glow-in-the-dark paint and spritzing it over the petunias I sell......

[@Gxie]

Just stumbled across your channel! I had to sub ~ even though I don’t mess with tc myself. This is so fascinating!! Can’t wait to see more! 🌱

[@toobmes]

I challenge you to tissue culture North American Pawpaw, Asimina Triloba.

[@ourworld215]

Thank you, I knew my tomatoe had some funk and after several attemts to clone, including drastic seperations, I gave up on my faviorte. Like spider mites I decidd burn it to the ground (safely) I figured it was possesed and had to remove the funk / mites. No more worries but thankfull to know there is another way .... YT is fickeled I've wached alll your videos and for some reason I haaven't seen any of your last 5 videos on my feed at all. I've Watched them all now : Your mixtuure of teaching by showing and discussing methodes while having a positive spirit, humor and pointing out faluires is outstanding.

[@robertwalloch591]

What magnification was clip of the medicinal meristem at? Said another way, what magnification scope should I get?

[@bpark10001]

I ordered one of the glowing petunias. They definitely glow more than you show in your video. Most of the light comes from newly-formed flowers that are just "thinking" about opening, but the open flowers also glow. I would call the color "white", not green (but in such dim light, the eye can't really see color anyway). But the plant refuses to grow larger so I can take cuttings.

[@Secret_Moon]

What kinds of plant growth regulators do you supplement in the meristem culture medium, or do you just use plain MS?

[@pellemikkelsen4477]

Cutting the shoot tip of the stem, and then dissecting it, is the opposite of how I do it. I strip it down to the exposed meristem while it is on the stem, then cut it off. Is there any advantage of doing it your way?

[@monkey_man70-1]

I was hoping this would be a simpler process... Still grateful that you could show a reliable process to save a plant from a viral infection, but they're gonna have to be special plants for me to do all this. Why are plant viruses, viroids, and obelisks so hard to deal with in plants?

[@savageking8762]

Love your videos actually your my teacher 😅😅😅

[@Le_Brick420]

Is it true that when you do this type of cleaning on a cannabis plant, it erases the terp values in that plants genetic make up of what it once had before it was diced to shreds?

[@timothyc353]

What magnification was used in the video?

[@SillySpinach-jf4pl]

Yay for Tomatoes 😁🍅😂

[@Leo-u4f5f]

Utah here, we usually get made fun of for the absurd amount of soda shops we have, glad to see someone gets us😂

[@PLAYERSLAYER_22]

aye the tomatoes lol angiosperms for the win!!!!

[@kikinotbouba]

wt is a soda restaurant?

[@plantsinjars]

restaurant 4 soda

[@larrygeran6964]

You are amazing!

[@RenanFuji]

acting cool here in the comments haha

[@PlantCellTechnology]

2:24 😂

[@HolographicThoughts]

Alternative title: "How to perform a C-section on a plant fetus" That'll draw in the curious. 🤣

[@plagueainsworthdenny375]

Yo the plant fetus is in the flowers

[@joshuadwebster]

Can you do a lab tour of all of your tc? What are you growing, what are goals, etc?

[@plantsinjars]

That’s what my most recent video is lol

[@kc-jm3cd]

Good business model soda

[@Tom47936]

Thank you so much for this video, especially using that Tomato plant, I would love even more videos around meristem culturing.

[@adamconrad9223]

be kewl doods!

[@benox345]

Very interesting video as usual, but I would be more worried about the references in the 'bonus' section to propogating a patended plant line....

[@ivanivanovich5904]

me being cool

[@exaken5249]

I am european, and yes i have a big problem with the 96 ounce Coke Zero >:(

[@Ned609]

I ordered the firefly petunias and got mine 2 weeks ago. They glow even less than yours did lol.

[@DTolen]

Great video, I´ve been waitng for this one. I´ve heard that with some plants you can just tissue culture the plant with Aciclovir, or another similar chemicals that will suppress the virus, so in theory the plant would outgrow it. But it is hard to find info on this topics for amateur growers

[@nigelthornberry7513]

just wanted to point out I got mine a week ago and a lot of people showing the glow of these are doing it wrong, they only glow at night, it has nothing to do with light. Even the species of mushroom that the dna they used on this plant will only glow at night, so during the day even if taken into a dark room there will be almost no glow. I can confirm this glows as much as the ads show every single part of the plant glows but the leaves, even the stems of the plant glow at night, and glow quite bright it is honestly shocking how much they glow. it glows bright at around 11 am, and around 3 or 4 am it is very bright even in a pitch black room you can see every bit of the plant glowing green all the way from the dirt to the very top flower.

[@GypsyinAus]

So how many plants do they get from one tip?

[@plantsinjars]

As many as you want

[@eternalspring1034]

Ooo, you have the best looking firefly petunia i have seen so far. I hope mine looks as nice soon, Its 5 days old.

[@ArmandoGonzalez-yz9uv]

Hiii question, I want to tissue culture on aquatic plants and was wondering if the tissue culture steps would be the same or is there a different processes since they are aquatic plants?

[@paulnovak833]

When are you going to show the biocoupler tumbler?

[@williamcalhoun7841]

I grow tomatoes a lot and this video was an instant click. Got my attention very quickly!

[@kendexter]

Amazing

[@Just_A_Name14]

That’s the same building scooters coffees are in around here

[@Johnny-xq4il]

Just got my firefly petunias today🙏🏽

[@Briguysgrow]

This is really cool. I have been wanting to dive into learning tissue culture. Thank you for showing how this is done.

[@katiatwood]

Utah here: I have 6 soda shops within a 2.5 mile radius of my home. Swig (2) Sodalicious (2), Fizz (1), and a Sip-N (1). Problem, what problem? Just keep a Stanley or two in every car. Love your videos by the way.

[@plantsinjars]

UGH life isn’t fair 😭

[@agnelomascarenhas8990]

All the slicing and dicing vegetables aka apical meristem is resulting in fragile stuff for small plants. Why not use *node* of stem. It proves clear marking of buds and you get uniformity from repeating on multiple nodes.

[@agnelomascarenhas8990]

My bad, missed the part "virus"

[@Perses-_-]

We need an update on the firefly petunia

[@plantsinjars]

Bruh it’s at the end of the video

[@Perses-_-]

​@@plantsinjars my bad I got distracted halfway through the video and had to go do something

[@BeeWellSeeds]

your setup is looking great!

[@itsumibotanicals]

LOVED the bonus content!!

[@fergusredbeard]

Favorite new channel... also Light Bio took my money.... I haven't received my glow in the dark petunias. I haven't received any barely glowing in the dark petunias. I haven't received any petunias or any other plant. All I have is a $130 size hole in my heart and in my bank account. Monsters

[@fergusredbeard]

Update - I got my flowers. They were very healthy.

[@keziabanana5791]

DO THEY GLOW???

[@CocoGreen420]

Cool tomatoes

[@michab5626]

2:09 "... Meristem is very small like stupidly small whatever you are thinking it is smaller than that ..." - Me thinking that it's size will be a few times the thickness of human hair (which is about 0,1mm to 0,01mm) and you show me those comparatively huge things XD.

[@igor-zb9vd]

🥰

[@bato6640]

COOL 🍅🧫