PL ANT

TECHNIQUES
P L A N T P R O PA G AT I O N
TABLE OF CONTENT

• Introduction
• Definition of stem cutting
• Cutting : softwood
• Root cutting
• Cutting : hardwood
• Leaf cutting
• Leaf – bud cutting
• Conclusion
INTRODUCTION

• 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.
DEFINITION STEM CUTTING

• 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.
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CUTTING :
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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ROOT CUTTING
            -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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CUTTING :
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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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
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L EA F- BUD
CUTTINGS
     
-Consists of a leaf blade,
petiole, an axillary bud on a
node 
            -Single-eye or
double-eye nodal cuttings

Examples :   black raspberry

(Rubus occidentalis),
blackberry, bosenberry,
lemon, camellia, jojoba
CONCLUSION

•  plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops. The crops grown include cotton, coffee, tea
, cocoa, sugar cane, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, rubber trees, and fruits. Protectionist policies and natural 
comparative advantage have sometimes contributed to determining where plantations were located.
• A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as
a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas
were often quite grand and expensive architectural works.
• Among the earliest examples of plantations were the latifundia of the Roman Empire, which produced large
quantities of wine and olive oil for export. Plantation agriculture grew rapidly with the increase in
international trade and the development of a worldwide economy that followed the expansion of 
European colonial empires. Like every economic activity, it has changed over time. Earlier forms of
plantation agriculture were associated with large disparities of wealth and income, foreign ownership and
political influence, and exploitative social systems such as indentured labor and slavery.
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