East Fork's Tissue Culture Plants a Hit with Growers
In 2020, East Fork launched a partnership with Vibrant Hemp Cultures to offer tissue culture clones of our hemp genetics on a commercial scale.
In this process, East Fork Original varieties are cloned in a sterile environment using in vitro micropropagation, then hardened off and delivered to your farm field-ready at 3” – 4” tall. Tissue culture clones are an excellent option for farmers who don’t have the optimal setup to germinate large amounts of seed, and ensure uniformity in your field and at harvest.
With the 2020 harvest behind us, feedback from farmers has been outstanding.
Cultivator Jeremy Jones of Ladyland Organics in Bend, Oregon had this to say:
Growing East Fork Cultivars genetics via Vibrant Tissue Cultures was one of the best business decisions we made in 2020.
Our field consisted of 20 varieties from the most respected breeders in the industry (Oregon CBD, Sovereign Fields, Davis Hemp Farms, Trilogene Seeds, Taproot Seed Co, and High Alpine Genetics). East Fork Cultivars stood out with excellent vigor and hardiness, with best-in-field performance during a season of extreme environmental pressure (pests-aphid, disease - beet curly top virus, heat, smoke, and early freeze).
The plants were thriving and field ready in 50 count trays, nestled in paper pots which meant supremely healthy roots and negligible transplant shock.
While our customers have definitely enjoyed the very unique terpene profiles and beautiful flower, our staff really appreciated the efficiencies that having a tissue culture product affords; no phenotype variations within varieties means that the harvesting, bucking and trimming processes were wonderfully streamlined and produced a very consistent product.
We are excited to move a higher percentage of our field over to East Fork tissue cultures in 2021!
Thanks to Jeremy and Ladyland for the kind words — we’re proud and excited to share our conscientiously bred genetics with farmers like you.
You can find out more about Vibrant Hemp Cultures here, and please let them know we sent you!
