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100

Cutting off the tip of either a healthy stem or leaf with little bit of stem. Then place the the cutting from a mature plant and place into water.

What is Tip Cutting

100

Dig a hole 3-4 inches deep and insert the tip of the shoot and cover it with soil. It will grow downwards first, then it bends sharply and grows upward

Tip layering

100

best performed in the spring as buds in the orchard are starting to open and the bark of the root stock slips. It can be done successfully up to the 30 days past full bloom

What is bark grafting?

100

A cut is made in the rootstock and a single bud with little or no wood is inserted into it in suck a way that they unite and grow as a new plant.

What is budding?

100

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Basil

200

Snip off healthy leaf with part of the stem. Then place leaf into moist growing media.

What is leaf cutting?

200

When a variety of woody-stemmed plants are cut back in the spring and the new shoots that develop are covered in soil. This gives you two plants instead of just one.

What is mound layering?

200

often used to change the cultivar or top growth of a shoot or a young tree (usually a seedling). It is especially successful if done in the early spring.

What is cleft grafting?

200

Select young, vigorous pencil thick roots, about the thickness of a pencil, and cut them off close to the crown with a sharp knife or secateurs.

Root Cutting

200

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Zinnia

300

Two cuts are made a half inch above and below the node. It is used on leaves that are opposite from each other.

What is double eye?

300

Genetic material touches a new root system and starts a new plant

Air Layering

300

This method is often used for material 1/4 to ½ inch in diameter. The scion and rootstock are usually of the same diameter, but the scion may be narrower than the stock

Whip grafting

300

Make two cuts on the stem. The first cut should be just above a node, and the second cut just above another node 2 to 6 inches down the stem.

Medial Cutting

300

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Lavender

400

cut at ground level its leaves are removed and the top is trimmed off by cutting off the last mature joint. then placed into large piles and picked up, tied, and transported to a factory.

What is cane cutting?

400

A portion of an above-ground stem grows roots while still attached to the parent plant and then detaches as an independent plant.

Simple Layering

400

Plants with more than one rooted crown may be divided and the crowns planted separately. If the stems are not joined, gently pull the plants apart.

Division- bulb


400

This method uses stock material with woody stems efficiently. Make a shield-shaped cut about halfway through the wood around a leaf and axial bud. Insert the shield horizontally into the medium.

What is heel cutting?

400

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Blue Star Fern

500

This is used when plants have alternate leaves when space or stock material is limited.

Single Eye Cutting

500

This method works for plants with flexible stems. Bend the stem to the rooting medium as for simple layering, but alternately cover and expose stem sections.

What is compound layering?

500

Plants with more than one rooted crown may be divided and the crowns planted separately. If the stems are not joined, gently pull the plants apart.

Division- corm

500

This is the most commonly used budding technique. When the bark is slipping, make a vertical cut (same axis as the root stock) through the bark of the rootstock

T budding

500

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silver mound artemisia

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