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Succulent Tissue Culture
A new way of producing cacti and other succulent plants
News
July 5th 2008
STC has finally moved to its new location; krommeweg 3, 4695 SC Sint-Maartensdijk!
Please note we NO LONGER are located in Steenbergen
April 14th
When visiting STC in late winter enjoy the early morning sun and breathtaking of the surrounding fields:
Our friends from the Czech republik
April 8th 2008
NEXT AUCTION starts this week 15 and will end 26 of April afternoon Dutch time, so when interested please keep the auction page active the coming days; lots of very interesting variegated plants will be auctioned again!
March 27th 2008
Coach visit British cacti & succulent enthousiasts: an impression
March 15 th 2008
To our customers outside the EU:
Due to the very strict CITES issues and very expensive CITES documents in Holland STC is no longer able to export CITES app. 1,2 and 3 plants outside the EU.
However, for plants belonging to the groups: Aloe spp., Cactaceae spp. and Euphorbia spp., ONLY FROM APP. 2, we can make an exception by clearifying on the phytosanitairy certificate that these were artificially propagated plants.
Another exception to this rule see below for the mescaline-containing Cacti like Lophophora which are coutry-based-regulated out of CITES regulations.
See www.cites.org/eng/app/appendices.shtml for the current list and appendices
ALL other CITES plants will no longer be exported outside the EU.
We will adapt our webshop very soon so that in case customers outside the EU order a CITES plant (except the above mentioned groups), the specific plants will be cancelled from your order.
In our webshop is clearly indicated with a lable-symbol which plants this concerns.
Please also notify that a growing number of countries, also EU countries!!, are prohibiting import of mescaline-cantaining cacti like Lophophora.
Even though they fall into appendix 2 and officially would be able to export a growing number of countries worldwide prohibit this (USA, France , Italy etc.)
It is the customers duty to inform us if this is the case; STC is in no way responsible for confiscations of this material by country customs.
February 20th 2008
Our 2nd february auction started today and ends 1st of March, so if you are interested please visit the auction page.
We note to all our customers outside the EU that fytosanitairy certificates are requested !
January 18th 2008
During our variegation-induction experiments we do encounter very few fluorescent pink variegates, which grow freely on their own roots under tubelights and some drought-stress. These extremely special forms of colour stay stable in vitro culture, but sometimes disappear when planted, but can then be re-induced under stress (as you get red-colouration in stress-induced plants in the greenhouse; cold, heat, etc.).
These plants will later be offered in the auction.
"PINKY-Variegate"
ABSENCE-CLOSING
STC is closed between october 30 and november 5th; no emails/phone calls can be answered. In case of winning bids and shipment of auction plants please wait for reply of your emails after november 5th.
Thank you for your understanding
October 3rd 2007
In contrast to the earlier date-information we notify our bidders in the auction that the October-auction will end saturday 27 October in the morning (European time).
a few of the latest achievements with our rooting powder:
Pelecyphora asselliformis cuttings; after 2 weeks
Euphorbia waringiae after 2 weeks
September 1st 2007
We are able to present some further developments in the achievement of developping our own succulent rooting system; many succulent plants are able to respond to our newest developments and induce massive roots in a couple of weeks, like:
Uncarina sp. rooted cuttings in 2 weeks time
Pachypodium sp. rooted cuttings in 2,5 weeks time
Bombacopsis cubensis rooted cuttings in 3 weeks time.
July 15th 2007
STC is currently involved in the process of developping a new type of rooting hormone powder and a rooting gel specially developped for a range of succulent plants. The research of these 2 products started a year ago and we can share some of the results of the rooting powder, specially designed for succulent cuttings:
The last results show promising root development although much research and improvement is still needed to use the rooting hormone on a larger scale.
The development of a specific rooting gel for succulent cuttings is also improving and we hope to finally come up with a gel that can be used in a wide spectrum of succulent plants to make rooting of cuttings much easier and simple.
June 29th 2007
Important notice to all contacts with a email domain ending in virgin.net !!
It seems that my current provider blocks all emails from any emailaddress ending in virgin.net even when I have put them on my white spam list. You might be getting bouncing back emails after you have sent an email to me at rwellens@zeelandnet.nl
Please try to use info@succulent-tissue-culture for all your mails, this might help and hopefully you won't get bouncing back emails saying you sent spam or so.
Sorry for any inconvinience; STC is working towards another provider.
June 27th 2007
Now accounts can be created for easy bidding in the auction and see what your order history at STC was. In case you create an ccount you can easily login and there is no need to put all your address info when you place a bid.
June 14th 2007
STC has finished it's 300 m2 triple growthroom space which will be cooled with state-of-the-art cooling and full spectra LED systems enhancing perfect tissue culture growth. Each square meter of groundfloor will consist of 10 layers of each 1 m2 so in totall we will be able to produce on 3000 m2 of space all succulents and other plants year round. We are planning to be operational at the end of 2007.
June 14th 2007
STC will be present on the ELK in Blankenberge in Belgium in september. People who win auctioned plants and/or make an order can save the postage as we can bring your items to this event in Blankenberge. Please inform us if you want to reserve your items and/or orders and that you pick them up on the ELK -cash payment there or pre-payment is necessary-
We look forward to see you at the ELK at 7, 8 and 9 september in Belgium !
We also would like to inform our French (and other south European) customers that we will be present at Terra Seca in 2008 in Montpellier, France. We will demonstrate our vitro cultures and will present in French leaflets and information.
June 10th 2007
STC is working on a LOG-IN system which will enable clients to log-in once taking part in the plant auction and/or order in the webshop. By this they don't need to write down every time their full address etc. Also clients who register will have full history of their ordered items and full history on the bids they placed. We hope this log-in system will be operational at the end of this month.
May 28th 2007
Our 4th auction started today with numerous lovely items and many variegated plants made by STC. have a look yourself at our auction page !
May 8th 2007
Our third auction ended and all succesfull bidders have received an automtic email that they are the winning highest bidder. In the next few weeks we will organize shipping of these items and at the same time we are preparing a new series of auction plants as soon as possible.
April 3rd 2007
Our second flow of auction plants has been finished and the winning bidders will soon be getting their plants. We are working hard on filling the new shift of auction plants this week and hopefully can offer you a new selection of auction plants within a week or two.
March 28th 2007
Starting from april 2nd it will be possible to download a full catalogue from our website in excel format (without pictures but with all details).
If you are interested in a printable full scale excel catalogue please follow the button which will appear in the shop after 2nd of april 2007
March 25th 2007
Today we show some of the recent pictures on building the totally new laboratory construction from STC where we plan to move to in summer of 2007.
STC now operates in a 1200 m2 greenhouse facility which will be expanded and a 500 m2 laboratory area completed with several computer controlled growthrooms, laboratory-facilities, offices etc.
January 23rd 2007
Today we show some of our latest results of different tissue cultured plants and induced variegates of different origin.
Aloe pearsonii, a wanted and rare Aloe not often found in cultivation or collections.
2 different forms of Agave turned variegate in vitro; STC now has full adapted vitro protocols to turn almost every Agave variegate in vitro like below:
Agave Ohi-Kissyoten-nishiki (variegate). A non-symmetrical variegated form were each different plant has a different variegation pattern (later in 2007 for sale in the auction).
Haworthia picta var. bicolor turned into variegates
Haworthia parksiana turned into variegates
Ledebouria revoluta; STC has produced a good protocol to multiply several sorts of bulbous plants in vitro, including this one and many, many more like Drimia's etc. Resulted plants from these will be offered in the shop once the plants are planted out and are bigger.
January 1st 2007
STC introduces a complete new lightning system for tissue culture; Agri-LEDs.
Using this system each separate shelf can be given an exact doses of all sorts of light in the whole spectrum, ranging from daylight, cool white, warm white, red, far-red, blue etc. etc. This provides new opertunities for enhancing growth of several hard to grow plants or plants that require a specific range of light-spectrum, for instance a R:FR ratio lower then 0,7 or higher then 1,9, or a daylight spectrum. The advantages of this system also includes much less warmth production, so growing plants in a culture room need less (expensive) cooling, the number of LEDs of different type can be adjusted according to the amount of PAR needed (or lux), and the life-time of these LEDs is over 10.000 hours.
STC will further use and develop this system for greenhouse uses as the system is fully waterproof and can be used to enhance growth of greenhouse plants, speeding up seed germination (using the red : far-red ration) and this without light being reflected out of the greenhouse (so no problems with light escaping to your neighbours) and a minimum energy input of 1 Watt per LED.
