In-vitro aquarium plants
No pests. No algae. Know what’s next.
Every plant we sell is raised from meristem tissue in a sealed cup, so it reaches your tank clean. Every cup carries the batch record behind it and the guidance to get it through its first three weeks.
Get these right in order and the rest is maintenance. Get them wrong and no amount of fertiliser fixes it.
A plant that wants high light and CO2 will melt in a low-tech tank, and a shade plant will be smothered in a bright one. Every entry in our range is marked with its light, CO2 and difficulty demand so you can match the plant to the tank you actually have.
Browse the rangeTissue-cultured plants are only as good as the lab that made them. Ours ship with the batch number, the sterilisation figures and the medium they were raised on, so a problem can be traced instead of guessed at.
How we growAn in-vitro plant has been living on sugar, not light. Rinse the gel off, divide it small, plant it shallow and give it three weeks to convert to submerged growth before you judge it.
Read the guideFour species in sealed in-vitro cups. Filter by how much work you want to do, or by where the plant sits in the tank.
MS full strength · BAP 0.10–0.20 mg/L
Sucrose 30 g/L · Agar 7–8 g/L · pH 5.7–5.8
NaOCl 1.5% · 8 min, single round
Explant: nodal segment
NaOCl 1.0% · 5 min × 2 rounds
Explant: runner node
NaOCl 0.5–0.75% · 3–4 min × 2 (<5 min total)
Stock grown emersed 2–4 wk before explanting
No plants match that combination. Try clearing a filter.
Every cup starts as a few millimetres of tissue taken from a mother plant, cleaned, and placed on sterile nutrient gel. From there it is divided and re-divided until there is enough to fill a cup.
Sterilisation is the step that decides everything. Too weak and the culture is lost to bacteria within a fortnight. Too long and the bleach kills the growing tip before it has started — which is the failure most small labs never diagnose, because a dead explant and a contaminated one look equally like nothing happening.
Our figures per species are on each plant entry above, under Plant info. They came out of our own batch log, not a paper.
We supply aquarium shops, aquascaping studios and growers. We are a small lab scaling up from pilot runs, so we would rather start you on a trial tray than promise volume we cannot hold. Tell us the species and the quantity you move in a month and we will tell you honestly what we can supply.
What to do in the first hour, and the first three weeks.
Lift the plantlets out, rinse the gel away under lukewarm water until nothing slippery remains, then divide the mass into small portions. Leftover gel feeds bacteria and clouds a new tank, so rinse it properly. Plant the portions a few centimetres apart and let them grow together.
In-vitro plantlets live on sugar rather than light, so they arrive soft and light green. They firm up and darken within two to three weeks of being submerged under normal aquarium lighting. Small is expected. Mushy or brown is not — tell us if you see that.
Several weeks at room temperature and out of direct sun. Keep it upright and sealed. Once opened, plant the same day.
Yes, while the seal is intact. Sterilisation and culture leave nothing alive in the vessel except the plant. What happens after you open it depends on your own tank and tools.
Sometimes. Send us the species and we will tell you whether we already have a protocol, whether it is worth developing one, or whether it is a plant that simply does not behave in vitro. Development work runs a few months before there is anything to sell.