The tissue culture lab at The Farm specialises in the production of consistently high-quality banana plantlets. High-yielding trees from various plantations are selected as source material for explants. These are then disinfected with sodium hypochlorite and anti-phenolics before being established in the lab by culture on a Murashige-Skoog medium for several months.

Once established, the explants are transferred to a multiplication medium. Several cycles of multiplication are carried out in order to attain the desired number of shoots. The shoots are transferred to a rooting medium where they are grown until they have established an extensive root system and are at a size of approximately 10cm. The plants are then taken to the nursery for hardening off, which takes roughly 4 to 6 weeks.

During hardening, the plants are monitored and inspected by our trained nursery staff, who remove any that show abberations or are performing poorly. Because every plant is individually inspected at every stage of the process, our clients recieve a healthy stock of plants of uniform age, size and genotype, allowing them to harvest their crop in one go. Please contact us for further information or to place an order.