Don’t people doing tissue culture use bleach to clean a sample?
I did but got rid of it. 
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Same and have regretted it ever since cuz the weeds around here are superpowered!
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hold up I thought boxwoods were “little to no maintenance”?? You’re telling me the 20 hedges I just planted will need pruning? I need a refund!
Seriously though , I did plant 20 korean boxwoods this summer. I’m going to let them go without hedging. We will see how it plays out 
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S1s may be very similar to the parent, or segregate like an F2. If the parent plant is relatively inbred and homozygous for a lot of genes, you will get more S1 plants that are more similar to the parent than a highly heterozygous clone.
You can’t assume you will (and probably won’t) get the same plant back.
@Seamonkey84 Sodium hypochlorite and alcohol washes are used to surface sterilize explants for tissue culture.
@Foreigner The unripe seeds of solomon seal are nice snacks, like a pea.
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