By the time a starter plant reaches a commercial greenhouse, a significant part of its story has already happened. Tissue culture liners begin with plant material propagated under controlled laboratory conditions. At AG2 TC, our skilled technicians manage this early stage carefully, using tissue culture technology to produce disease-free plants before they move into greenhouse production and eventually into the hands of professional growers.
For nurseries and greenhouse operations, understanding how a liner was produced can be just as important as choosing the variety itself.
Tissue culture liners are young starter plants that originate through laboratory tissue culture propagation and are grown on for professional nursery production. Tissue culture allows plant material to be propagated under sterile, controlled conditions before plantlets transition into soil, rooting, greenhouse production, and eventually a liner that a grower can continue finishing. At AG2 TC, these liners represent the connection between our laboratory and your greenhouse.
Tissue culture isn’t simply a label attached to a plant. It describes a propagation process that takes place well before the plant reaches its finished size. AG2 TC operates an on-site tissue culture facility. Our laboratories are well maintained and sterile, providing a controlled environment where our technicians can work carefully with plant material.
The growing plant material is placed on gelled, nutrient-rich media containing growth regulators. Light and temperature are controlled as the plants develop. This stage allows our team to propagate plant material efficiently and consistently within the laboratory environment.
Tissue culture is only the beginning. The plantlets eventually transition from their laboratory environment into soil, where they root and continue growing. They then develop further in our greenhouses. By the time they become AG2 TC liners, they have moved through several carefully managed stages of production.
Commercial growers aren’t buying a finished product from AG2 TC. They’re buying the beginning of one. That makes the quality of the starter material particularly important.
Our tissue culture process produces disease-free plants.
For growers who need additional information about plant health, virus indexing can be provided upon request.
Tissue culture allows us to propagate plant material efficiently while maintaining consistency.
For professional growers planning a larger crop, starting with consistent material can make production easier to manage than beginning with highly variable plants.
Our research and development work supports a broad plant selection. AG2 TC’s catalog includes foliage, tropicals, landscape plants, succulents, ferns, carnivorous plants, grasses, and specialty varieties. That means tissue culture isn’t limited to one type of finished plant or one type of grower.
Our standard plants are supplied in 72-cell pack liners. Grasses are the exception and are supplied in 144-cell packs. This is an important distinction when looking at finished size information for individual plants. For example, a plant page may explain that a variety can be finished in a 4-inch pot, 6-inch container, gallon, or another size. That does not mean AG2 TC sells it in that finished container. We sell the starter liner to the professional grower.
AG2 TC is located in Apopka, Florida, near Zellwood, Mount Dora, Sorrento, Eustis, Tavares, Astatula, Ocoee, and Wekiva Springs.
Our wholesale customers must be able to provide a tax exemption certificate. If you’re evaluating tissue culture suppliers for an upcoming production cycle, contact our team to discuss the plant varieties you’re looking for and current availability.
A tissue culture liner is a young starter plant that originated through tissue culture propagation and has progressed into a form suitable for continued production by a professional grower.
Not in the context of what AG2 TC supplies to growers. Our plants progress from tissue culture through rooting and greenhouse production before being sold as starter liners.
Our standard plants are supplied in 72-cell packs. Grasses are supplied in 144-cell packs.
No. They are starter plants. Professional growers transplant and continue growing them to produce their desired finished crop.
Yes. AG2 TC produces disease-free plant material. Virus indexing can also be provided upon request.
Our plant selection includes foliage, tropicals, carnivorous plants, landscape varieties, specialty plants, succulents, ferns, grasses, and other selections.
AG2 TC is a wholesale supplier. Our customers must be able to provide a tax exemption certificate.
What happens before a plant enters your greenhouse matters. Our tissue culture liners begin with careful laboratory propagation and progress through controlled growing stages before becoming starter material for professional growers.
Explore our plant selection to see what’s available, or call 407-889-8487 to talk with AG2 TC about tissue culture liners for your production program.
We provide plants at wholesale to those entities that can produce a tax exemption certificate.
If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, you can contact us by phone at 407-889-8487 or by email at Info@ag2tc.com.