I’ve always been hesitant with tissue culture plants ever since I had a bad experience with tissue cultured Pogostemon Helferi, but when I saw this plant for sale at a well known store downtown Toronto I had to take the chance.

Here in Canada Ammania Sp. Bonsai is one of those plants you RARELY see, and when you do people charge anywhere from $5-10 a stem, this made the little $9.99 tub of Tropica’s 1-2 grow even that much more attractive.

Quickly after getting home I prepared all my cutting tools, a small bowl of water, a mister to keep the plants moist, and a couple of old tissue culture pots I had from previous purchases to keep the stems in once cut. Once I began working on the Ammania Sp. Bonsai I was super impressed by the root growth on it, although it was a slow and tedious process which took a little over 1 hour. I managed to salvage 103 stems ranging in size from 1/4 inch-2 inches and then distributed them throughout various humidity domes and emersed planted tanks in order to experiment with it’s growing conditions.

I will continue to add pictures as the stems develop and look more so like the Ammania Sp. Bonsai we’ve come to know and love.