Download Cutting Techniques

Asexual Plant
Propagation
Students will be able to know and
plant, plants by using asexual
propagation.
Asexual Propagation
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The use of growing parts other than seeds to
reproduce plants.
 The types are….
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Cuttings
Layering
Division/Separation
Budding
Grafting
Tissue Culture
Types of propagation methods
Types of propagation methods
 Cuttings
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Cloning from another plant through stems,
roots, or leaves
 Layering
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Aerial stem grows roots while still attached to
the parent plant and then becomes one
• Air layering
• Ground layering
 Division/Separation
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Broken up into parts
 Grafting
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Placing another plant on another
 Budding
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Graft a flower bud onto another plant
 Tissue
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Culture
Done in a lab under sterile conditions
Types of Cuttings
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Stem
• Hardwood
 Deciduous trees or plants (lose
leaves in winter)
• Semi-hardwood
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Young hardwood
Soft
• Softwood
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Form from tips or shoots
Not hard, still soft
• Herbaceous
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Succulent and greenhouse plants
Leaf Cuttings
 The
use of leaves and sections of leaves
to reproduce plants.
 Done from herbaceous plants.
 Veins must be cut!!!
 Example
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Begonias
African Violets
Peperomia
Stem Cutting
 Stem
cuttings
 Cut between nodes at 45• angle
 Remove bottom leaves
Ways to improve rooting of
cuttings
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Proper rooting medium
Wounding
• Stripping
• Girdling
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Auxins (Hormone)
• Helps increase growth of roots
• Wood’s
Cutting video
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCI5-
zdhd-4
Article to read
 https://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/pro
pagation/asexual.html