The first meeting of the year!
Our feature plants for this month is the Scented Leaf. Bring in your scenteds for Show & Tell and the Parlour Show.
Feature :
Jean Hausermann will be speaking about tissue culture and updating us on her efforts in the area. There is more and more tissue cultured plants out there and this will provide us with an opportunity to learn more about the process.
Feature Report:
Jean presented a video on tissue culture. There is a lot of prep that needs to be done especially around maintaining sterile and sanitary conditions. The video outlined how to do tissue culture in your kitchen using readily available tools and outline the steps required. This was contrasted vividly with scenes from a commercial tissue culturing lab which was quite startling to say the least.
The club members found the video to be very informative and Jean shared some of her recent experience with members. Many questions were asked and the suggestion was put forth that we look into the possibility of doing a tissue culture workshop as a club project. Since it would involve some planing and preparation, we are looking at the possibility of doing this as one of next year's project.
Regular Features:
Membership fees will be due.
Our 2010 Project Plants will be handed out.
We don't anticipate our species seeds being received in time for this meeting, but if they are received, we will be distrubing them. This year we plan to give out a special prize for the best seedling grown and will be giving this prize out at the October meeting.
Parlour and Lore Show, Lore and our Show and Tell feature.
