The Clonaflora journal
Notes from the culture room.
Guides, tutorials and explainers on plant tissue culture, written for growers, students and anyone curious about how plants are made in a lab.
Acclimatisation: getting plantlets out of the jar alive
Why lab-grown plantlets are so fragile, and a humidity-first routine for hardening them off.
24 September 2026 6 min read
Tutorial: aseptic technique and explant sterilisation
Contamination is the number one reason cultures fail. Here is how to set up the hood and clean an explant.
21 September 2026 7 min read
Tutorial: preparing MS medium, step by step
The most widely used plant culture medium, from stock solutions to autoclave, with the mistakes to avoid.
18 September 2026 9 min read
Seven types of plant tissue culture, explained
Meristem, callus, embryo, anther, protoplast and more — what each one does and when labs use it.
14 September 2026 8 min read
What is plant tissue culture? A plain-language guide
How a few millimetres of plant tissue in a jar becomes a full young plant, and why growers bother.
10 September 2026 6 min read