Soilless Media
Asexual Propagation
Sexual Propagation
Cuttings
Hydroponics
100
A sterile mix of natural ingredient.
What is Soilless Media?
100
Asexual propagation is the multiplication without passage through the seed cycle.
What is asexual propagation?
100
It is the process of creating new plants from a variety of sources: seeds, cuttings, bulbs and other plant parts.
What is sexual propagation?
100
Striking
What is a technique of stem cutting?
100
Hydroponically grown foods not only taste better but are more nutritional.
Why hydroponics?
200
Soil is still prone to carrying harmful bacteria and fungi and can kill plants.
Why is soilless media more popular than organic soil?
200
Numerous plant species are propagated by stem cuttings.
What is stem cutting?
200
Yes, seeds are typically produced from sexual reproduction within a species.
Can seeds and spores be used for reproduction?
200
You can spend as little as 20 to 50 dollars.
How much does an hydroponic system cost?
300
Peat moss, perlite, vermiculite, and sand.
Types of soilless growing mediums?
300
A corm is a swollen leaf base and closed by dry, scale like leaf
What is corms?
300
Meiosis
What process creates gametes for sexual reproduction?
300
Pieces of foliated or defoliated stalks with one or more eyes.
What is an eye cutting?
300
Grow lights are an optional part of hydroponic systems.
What is grow lights?
400
Homemade soilless mix contains equal amount of coconut core, perlite, and bark.
How to make your own soilless mix?
400
A bulb is a modified stem that occurs in many familiar monocotyledonous plants.
What is a bulb?
400
Sexual
What type of reproduction is more condusive to evolution due to the increased genetic diversity it offers.
400
Willow blackberry and pelargoniums.
Which species are more susceptible for the cutting techniques?
400
There are six types (drip system, EBB & Flow, N.F.T., Water culture, aeroponics, and wick.)
How do hydroponic systems work?
500
You can blend ingredients for preferred drainage, water retention and air space.
What's so great about soilless mix?
500
A rhizome is an underground stem that grows horizontally t or just below the soil surface.
What is a rhizomes?
500
Gene pool
If an organism doesn't reproduce its genes are lost from the?
500
Rhizoctonia
Azalea cuttings can be mildly heated in water to disinfect it from the fungus pathogen?
500
Hydroponics is a subset of hydro culture and is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil.
What is hydroponics?