Tissue Culture Lab Rehabilitation
Fix a tissue culture lab that stopped working.
A lab that contaminates, stalls, or drifts costs you genetics and money every week. We find what is actually wrong, contamination, weak vigor, slow multiplication, HLVd pressure, and get your program back to clean, consistent output, with your team running it.
Signs your lab needs a rehab
You are firefighting instead of producing.
- Contamination rates you cannot get under control.
- Cultures that brown, stall, or will not root.
- Multiplication rates that keep dropping.
- HLVd showing up in lines you thought were clean.
- A team that cannot keep the lab running without you in the room.
How we diagnose and fix it
Find the real failure point, then fix it for good.
Full audit
We walk your workflow, media, sterile technique, and records to find the actual cause, not the symptom.
Root-cause fixes
Contamination control, media correction, aseptic technique, and workflow redesign, targeted at what is broken.
Clean-stock reset
Where lines are compromised, we re-initiate them through meristem culture and verify clean by qPCR.
Team retraining
We retrain your technicians and rewrite the SOPs so the fix holds after we step out.
What you get back
A lab that produces, and a team that keeps it that way.
Clean, consistent output; SOPs and a trained team that hold the line; and, if you want it, the Collective Herb lab platform to track it. We have preserved 250+ cultivars coast to coast.
Related reading
If your lab is fighting you.
Rehab questions
Rehabilitating a lab, answered.
How do I know if my lab needs a rehab or a rebuild?
That is the first thing the audit answers. Most underperforming labs do not need to be torn out; they need the real failure points found and fixed, in the workflow, the media, the sterile technique, or the training. We tell you straight which one it is before you spend on a rebuild.
Can you save lines that are already contaminated or HLVd-positive?
Often, yes. Where a line is worth saving, we re-initiate it through meristem culture to remove HLVd and contamination, and verify the result by qPCR. Where it is not, we tell you.
How long does a rehab take?
It depends on what is wrong. A contamination or workflow problem can turn around quickly; rebuilding clean stock from infected lines takes longer. We scope it on the consultation after the audit.
What if the problem turns out to be our staff, not the process?
Then we say so, and we fix it through retraining rather than blame. Most technique problems are training gaps, not bad hires: nobody showed them why a step matters, so the step drifts. Retraining against written SOPs fixes that far more reliably than replacing people.
Do we have to shut the lab down during a rehab?
Usually not. Most of the audit happens around your existing work, and fixes get staged so you keep producing while the failure points get corrected. Where a line is badly compromised we may pull it out of rotation, but a full stop is rare and we would tell you before it happened.
What if someone else built our lab?
That is a large share of the rehab work and it is not awkward. We audit what is there on its merits, keep what is working, and fix what is not. You do not need to have built with us for us to get the program running.
How do we stop it happening again?
By fixing the cause rather than the symptom, then writing it down. A contamination spike traced to a media batch or a technique gap gets corrected at the source, the SOP gets rewritten so the correction survives staff turnover, and the tracking stays in place so the next drift is visible early instead of at the next transfer.