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5/11/2020 PLANT PROPAGATION For the Master Gardener 1 WHY DO WE PROPAGATE ? What are the main reasons for propagation of plants? 2 WHY DO WE PROPAGATE ? Food Clothes Timber Pharmaceuticals 3 1 5/11/2020 MANS BASIC NEEDS

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PLANT PROPAGATION

For the Master Gardener

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WHY DO WE PROPAGATE ?

What are the main reasons for propagation of plants?

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WHY DO WE PROPAGATE ?

  • Food
  • Clothes
  • Timber
  • Pharmaceuticals

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MANS BASIC NEEDS

Food, Clothing, and Shelter

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SEXUAL PROPAGATION

The most cost effective method in agriculture

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SEXUAL PROPAGATION

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat or testa

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THE TOOLS

Tools most propagators need

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CORONA OR FELCO

Best shears for our needs in Southern California

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MY NEW CHOICE FOR

Grafting knife, fold, locks and very thin blade

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THE TOOLS

  • Quality pair of hand

pruners

  • A pair of grape shears or

scissors

  • A knife
  • Grafting or budding knife

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ASEXUAL PROPAGATION

Vegetative Propagation (Cloning)

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ASEXUAL PROPAGATION

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CUTTINGS

  • Softwood cuttings
  • Semi-hardwood cuttings
  • Hardwood cuttings
  • Leaf cuttings
  • Root cuttings

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THE MEDIUM

Soil serves as a medium for supporting plant growth and development

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GRAFTING

Whip and Tongue

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GRAFTING

  • Scion may be a single

bud, small twig with several buds, a stem such as a succulent, or terminal shoot in an evergreen

  • Rootstock the foundation

to improve vigor, change form, improve fruit bearing quality,

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DIVISIONS

Plant propagation by separation from parent

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DIVISION

  • Sever from original plant-

(runner) strawberry, blackberry suckers

  • Simple separation of parts

not rooted-such as tulip bulblets or hen-and-chicks

  • ffsets
  • Rough division with spade
  • r saw-canna, rhubarb or

herbaceous perennials

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DIVIDE WITH A KNIFE

  • r use a small or large shovel

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IN VITRO

Technique carried out under aseptic conditions using filtered air and sterile environment

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PLANTS IN AGAR

Typically for high value propagation

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TISSUE CULTURE

  • Explants are placed on solid

culture medium

  • Medium contains salts plus
  • rganic nutrients, vitamins

and hormones

  • Medium is prepared by

adding a gelling agent such as agar

  • Cultures develop and grow,

peeled off and subcultured

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