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.