PLANT PROPAGATION“Asexual Reproduction”

NATURAL VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION

Natural Vegetative Reproduction

•Plants reproduce on their own using underground stems, , bulbs, corms, rhizomes and leaves.

• Underground Stems: Ginger (rhizome)

bud

• Onion

• Potato

• Suckers: producing upright shoots• Heliconia and Banana

• Leaves: Thick and fleshy • Bryophyllum

• Begonia

• African violet

PLANT PROPAGATION“Asexual Reproduction”

ARTIFICIAL VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION

Artificial Vegetative reproduction

•Plant parts such as stems, buds and leaves•A man-made way to

reproduce plants with certain preferred characteristics.

CUTTING• Also called as plant slip• Stem Cutting

• Moist soil must be used and stem should be kept away from direct sunlight for the roots to develop.

CUTTING

CUTTING

• Roots• Warning: Acidic Soil and too much water

GRAFTING

• Making one part of a plant grow into another plant.

Widely used to grow fruit trees such as apples.

BUDDING

• Similar to grafting. The only difference is that only a bud and a small piece of bark is grafted to the stem of the stock plant.

BUDDING

• The bud will gradually grow into a new plant with the characteristics of the parent plant.• Generally, fruit trees such as

peach and trees that provide shade are suitable for budding.

AIR LAYERING

• Making a cut or wound on the stem or large branch of a parent plant to grow another plant.

• Used to reproduce plants that take a long time to develop roots.

• Plants can be large ad have a little or no leaves at the bottom half of their stems.

• Also can be used to reproduce fruit trees, such as guava, woody plants or indoor plants.