Re: Possible Hosta Virus?

In a message dated 6/9/2006 3:58:40 PM Central Daylight Time, 
Jeaa0088@aol.com writes:
Is this process of lining them out, then mincing them up and  replanting the 
pieces referred to as 'tissue culture'? It would  seem that hosta are easy to 
grow. And, if it's so easy to propagate hosta, I'm  surprised that we don't 
have enough growers in the States to supply the demand  here. And why would 
it 
be cheaper to produce and ship them  from Europe?
Most Hosta multiply to slowly to be propagated by division, and those 
propagated by tissue culture should be clean of Virus X because most good labs test 
for the virus before putting the plants into production.

Cutting up the crowns and replanting is simple division.  In Tissue Culture, 
small plants are grown from buds and then rooted.  After they have roots they 
are moved to cell packs and grown out and sold for potting or to be grown in 
the filed (called lining out)

Most Hosta (wholesale) are grown in the Netherlands, cheep labor and lots of 
space with just the right amount of sun and plenty of water. 

Before tissue culture came around in the early 90's, it was hard to get large 
numbers of Hosta, except for the same 10 to 15 varieties that were common.

Paul

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