Medjool Hobby Orchard / Tissue culture

[ZPalms]

So is tissue culture for dates just to have clones of a specific palm?

[mydateplams]

You can tissue culture a lot of plants but for palms you can clone the best ones and not wait for the offshoot to grow.  One palm can make millions of explants.

So if you are starting a farm you would buy 1-2k cultured plants and they are all the same.

The money is the work it takes to harden the plant from the tube to the field. 

https://www.phoenixagrotech.com/lab/

https://www.ranchotissue.com/laboratory-tour/

[mydateplams]

Picture update. I had my tree cleaned and pollinated and de-throned. I planted 50 more Medjools. I have 150 Medjools, 40 zahedi , 5 Barhi.

About 1500 pounds of Medjool are on the way.

Just to give an idea. ita $400 one gal of pollen and $12 each tree to clean,