Video from the garden and the balcony.

The first ten minutes after a tissue-culture order arrives matter more than people think. The plantlets have spent days in the dark, sealed inside agar and humidity, and the choices you make in the next half hour shape how many of them survive the next two weeks.

This episode walks the intake — the unboxing, the first inspection, the triage of which plantlets are healthy and which are flagged, and the first staged movements toward atmosphere. The substrate primer this episode pairs with is over here if you want the chemistry behind the choices.