Introduction to Plant Propagation: The Essential Guide to Plant Propagation Methods and Techniques

By Dueep Jyot Singh

Table of Contents

Introduction to Plant Propagation
The Essential Guide to Plant Propagation
Methods and Techniques
Introduction
Layering
Marcottee
Cuttings
“Striking” Cuttings Successfully
Using Sand
Traditional Cutting Growing Technique
Benefits of Shallow Pan Technique
Triple Pot Method
Propagation through Buds
Grafting
Benefits
Wedge Grafting
Grafting Wax Solutions
Grafting Wax
Conclusion
Growing Cuttings in Water
Points for Water Cuttings
Author Bio
Publisher

Introduction

It is always been the nature of human beings to try to improve on nature. That is why, you can be certain that millenniums ago when some enterprising soul learned how to domesticate wild plants and grow them in his own little yard for food, shelter and wood, one fine day he decided – what is going to happen if I can grow the branch of such and such tree on such and such other tree? That means I am going to have oranges and apples in one parent tree.

The start of such creative ideas must have given rise to many bizarre experimentations, most of which would fail monumentally. However, as time went by, and more and more people started to experiment, they gained more knowledge and gardening experience related to plant propagation.

In the natural state, you are going to see different vegetative propagation methods through which a plant can grow. That means the plant is going to grow its own seeds, and use natural methods like air, wind and water to spread the seeds far and wide.

In a strawberry, you are going to have the plant sending out long branches trailing on the soil. Stimulus of moisture causes the production of roots below a bud on a long branch. The bud is then going to send out shoots. Soon the connection between the new plant and the old plant is severed by a withering up of the intervening branch.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mendon Cottage Books
• Release date: Mar 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310530005

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Introduction to Plant Propagation

The Essential Guide to Plant Propagation

Methods and Techniques

Gardening Series

Dueep Jyot Singh

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Layering

Marcottee

Cuttings

Striking Cuttings Successfully

Using Sand

Traditional Cutting Growing Technique

Benefits of Shallow Pan Technique

Triple Pot Method

Propagation through Buds

Grafting

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[Casey Jeremiason · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Essentially unreadable. Very poor sentence structure and phrasing, almost as if it is a rough draft of a book.