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So I’m new to propagating and naïvely jumped into TC’s. I actually thought I was bidding on small starter plants. I didn’t understand what a tissue culture was. But they’re here! Two of them say philodendron light leaf, one is a Calandria bubble and a Syngonium pink salmon. I’ve been doing a lot of research but keep getting conflicting information. I ordered Statum and Perlite and we’ll put them in a dome. My question is how long after getting them can I pot them? Some say right away and some say they should be under a grow light for 3 to 7 days. Some say to use liquid fertilizer and some say don’t. Also conflicting info on whether to use self watering cups or not. Any advice would be extremely helpful!

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  1. Waspinator

    Tissue culture plants are grown in a sterile environment. The gel medium they start in is mostly a kind of gelatin with sugar as the main food for the plant, so it's very easy for it to grow mold (hence why it needs the sterile environment.) When taking a plant out of tissue culture, it's pretty small and not used to anything it would need its immune system for, so it's delicate.

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    • Waspinator

      First you move it into inorganic substrate (the perlite mix) and use sterile (distilled) water and a sealed container. Let it adjust to that, then open the lid just a crack and let it get used to non-sterile air for a week or two. Then take the lid all the way off. Then get it used to non-sterile water a little bit at a time. Once it's good with regular water and gets big enough, you can start getting it used to soil a little bit at a time by mixing some in with mostly perlite each time you repot. Just acclimate it to normal conditions gradually and it should be fine

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    • TabbyTai

      All that.

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  2. jlsKenzy

    I'll only add: do not use fertilizer until it's been repotted in soil and has new growth. I think most stratum has some type nutrients in it.

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