Tagged: planting material

The Third Way to Plant an Assam Tea Bush

Not every Assam bush is a clone or a seedling. A third category, the biclonal seed variety, crosses two proven clones on purpose and plants the resulting seed. Here is how it works and why Tocklai still makes it.

Clones and Cultivars

Every named plant in an Assam garden carries a code, TV1, TS 397, TTRI 2, or a garden's own name and a number. The complete reference to what those codes mean, the categories Tocklai sorts its releases into, and how a candidate plant becomes a released clone at all.