Field labs, not articles.
Two interactive labs about the parts of plant work that are genuinely hard to picture. Everything here is a dial, a sequence or a simulation — you turn something and watch what the plant does. Free, no account, and they run fine on a phone.
The Cutting Bench
How a plant decides what a cell becomes — and how to take that decision away from it. The auxin–cytokinin balance, where on the stem to cut and why, air layering step by step, sterile technique for tissue culture, and the twenty-six-year arithmetic behind a bonsai trunk.
- Cuttings
- Layering & grafts
- Tissue culture
- Failure clinic
- Bonsai timeline
The Bonsai Bench
The craft, taken apart. The vigour-versus-refinement trade that governs every decision, how taper is actually built, finding the front of a tree, making the cut, wiring, the seasonal calendar, substrate and root work, deadwood — plus a species reference and a test to see if it stuck.
- Styles & taper
- The cut
- Wiring
- Seasonal year
- Root work
Both benches run entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, nothing is tracked, and they work offline once loaded. If you want to keep what you propagate, Repot tracks every cutting through rooting to a mature plant.