Cultivation - Salvia divinorum tissue culture growing

[Alfa]

Does anyone have experience with salvia divinorum tissue culture growing? Various vendors offer a minature salvia divinorum plant in a tube, which is shipped worldwide. They stay well in the fridge. Does anyone have experience with them?

[DxCore]

that sounds interesting, if SWIY finds anything out keep us posted.

[Alfa]

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This is the information with it:

Salvia Divinorum plants can be propagated through cuttings and they require rich soil. Moisture should be high, but plants can be slowly adjusted to 'normal' growth conditions.

Plants are shipped as tissue culture plantlets still in the tube. This makes it much easier for us to ship them and you will get a 100% disease and pest-free plant.

To transplant your tissue culture Salvia Divinorum to soil you will need a pot, some fine soil and a glass jar. A fungicide such as Thiram is advisable.

The Salvia Divinorum plant is taken out of the tube and the agar is washed off with luke warm water. The roots must be clean! Any dead/black material is removed. Sometimes the tops of the plantlets die from the shock of shipment. This is no problem, just clip off the dead tissue and new shoots will appear from the leaf axils.

The bottom leaves of the Salvia Divinorum plant are removed and the larger leaves are trimmed. Large leaves will lead to too much moisture loss which leads to the wilting of the plantlet.

Carefully plant Salvia Divinorum in the soil and water it (preferably with a fungicide solution). If no fungicide is available, the soil should have been heat treated to prevent infection. A glass jar is put over the plantlet to raise humidity and it is put in a light shady place. After 7 days new growth should be visible and after 14 days the Salvia Divinorum plant can slowly be adjusted normal growth conditions.

In the winter some additional lighting may be necessary.

Once Salvia Divinorum is established it grows pretty fast. The Salvia Divinorum plants should be topped regularly to make them bushier or they will grow tall and thin and fall over.

It would be nice if someone would try this and do a photo shoot.

[Nagognog2]

An octopus I know who has 8 green thumbs suggests trying to get it rooted first. A VERY light touch with a good indole-based rooting compound - available in any good gardening shop - and then placing the entity into some moistened (NOT chlorinated tap water) rock-wool. See what happens.

[BeetleJuice]

Salvia cuttings are one of the easiest to propagate with no rooting gel or nothing. like nag said, you can put it into a rock wool thing (i find that pointless n time consuming) but also, they can go straight into most good soil mixes with or without roots and ittle root quickly as long as u keep it in a high humidity area ( easy way to do so is just cut a coke bottle and place over the the clone) till it starts moving, then try to setup a good humid grow area for em. Or you can just chuck an unrooted clone into a cup with abit of water for a week or so till the roots pop out then plant.