PLANTATION TECHNIQUE

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INTRODUCTION
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A plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used
in horticulture for vegetative (asexual) propagation. A piece of the stem or root of the source plant
is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil. If the conditions are suitable, the plant piece
will begin to grow as a new plant independent of the parent, a process known as striking. A stem
cutting produces new roots, and a root cutting produces new stems. Some plants can be grown
from leaf pieces, called leaf cuttings, which produce both stems and roots. The scions used
in grafting are also called cuttings.

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 Stem Cutting
Definition - What does Stem Cutting mean?
In horticulture, stem cutting refers to a process used during vegetative propagation
whereby a piece of the plant’s stem is rooted into a growth medium such as moist
soil. Consequently, the stem cutting will thrive and grow as a new plant, which is
entirely independent of the mother plant provided that the conditions are suitable.
Stem cuttings produce fresh roots, and once this happens, the stem cuttings are no
longer cuttings, but new, young plants. Because their genetics are the exact same as
the parent plant in which they are taken, plants grown from stem cuttings are also
called clones. The entire process is called cloning.

Cuttings: softwood
Softwood cuttings can be used to propagate a wide
range of perennials and deciduous shrubs, as well
as some trees, in spring and early summer.
Material is taken from the soft and flexible young
shoot tips, which root readily.

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Cuttings: hardwood
Hardwood cuttings provide an easy and reliable
method of propagating a range of deciduous
climbers, trees and shrubs, and as bonus, they are
taken from mid-autumn until late winter when more
time is usually available to the gardener. Some
evergreen plants, hollies for example, can also be
taken at the same time of year as other hardwood
cuttings.

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 Root Cuttings 
            -Roots of young stock plants (juvenile) 
            -Taken during winter and early spring 
                before new growth starts 
                carbohydrates stored in root essential 
            -Stick root cuttings with the proximal end upward 
 

            -Plants that can be propagated by root cuttings 

                coralberry (Acantopanax pentaphyllus) 
                trumpet vine (Campsis ranicans) 
                flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa) 
                bleeding heart (Dicentra species) 
                fig (Ficus carica) 
                apple (Malus species) 
                phlox (Phlox species) 
                white poplar ( Populus alba) 
                sumac (Rhus spp.) 
                black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) 
                rose (Rosa spp.) 
                sassafras (Sassafras albidum) 
                lilac (Syringa vugaris)

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Leaf Cuttings

            -Adventitious roots and shoots formed at the base of leaf blade, leaf petiole 
            -The original leaf does not become part of the new plant 
            -Examples 
              Sansevieria ---- new plant forms at the base 
                  S. trifasciata laurenti -varigated sansevieria 
                          periclinal chimera- use a division method 
              Begonia rex ---- leaf sections containing vein 
              African violet ---leaf with petiole 
 

              Kalanchoe pinnata (Bryophyllum pinnata) - offsets

    C. Leaf-bud Cuttings

            -Consists of a leaf blade, petiole, an axillary bud on a node 

            -Single-eye or double-eye nodal cuttings

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            -Examples 
                black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), blackberry, bosenberry, lemon,
camellia, jojoba