The basics of plant propagation and techniques for successful asexual propagation. Contents primarily focus on asexual propagation. Fruit seedlings; trees; Flowers
1. JUPITE MARK U. BANAYAG
Agriculture Department
Compostela Valley State College- Main Campus
BASIC PLANT PROPAGATION
AND NURSERY MANAGEMENT
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2. • Sexual Method of Propagation:
• In this method the plants are raised from
seeds.
• Asexual Method of Propagation:
• In this method of propagation the plants are
obtained from a vegetative portion of the
mother plant instead of seeds.
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Methods of Plant Propagation
8. Advantages
• Seed propagated rootstocks are hardy and develop
better root system.
Disadvantages
• Seedlings have a long juvenile period and come
into bearing later as compared to asexually raised
plants.
• Due to segregation of characters, the progeny is not
true-to-type.
• It is not economical to handle larger trees, as less
number of trees can be accommodated per unit
area and the cultural operations are difficult.
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Sexual Method of Propagation
9. • Asexual Method of Propagation:
• In this method of propagation the plants are
obtained from a vegetative portion of the
mother plant instead of seeds.
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Methods of Plant Propagation
10. • Vegetative Propagation by Roots
• Vegetative Propagation by Stem
• Vegetative Propagation by Leaves
Natural Vegetative Propagation
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11. • Combining the good qualities of two different
varieties.
• Propagating the desirable variety of plants
economically.
• Cutting, Layering, Grafting, Marcotting,
Micro Propagation
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Artificial Vegetative Propagation
15. • The union of the stock and the scion,
carried out with the help of cambium
• Scion - small shoot bearing one or more
buds
• The stock supplies the water and
minerals to the scion while scion forms
the upper portion and supplies the
organic food to the root
Artificial Vegetative Reproduction
(Grafting)
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22. • Budding Techniques
• Budding is a grafting technique in which a
single bud from the desired scion is used
rather than an entire scion containing many
buds.
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Artificial Vegetative Reproduction
(Grafting)
27. Advantages
• The plants are generally true-to-type, uniform in
growth, yielding capacity and fruit quality.
• Have short juvenile phase, thus come into bearing
earlier than seedling plants.
• Plants have restricted growth, thus cultural
practices and harvesting are easy.
Disadvantages
• New variety cannot be evolved by this method.
• Such plants are not so vigorous and long-lived as
the seedling trees.
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Asexual Method of Propagation
53. • 10% dried manure and
• 10% organic matter
• 80% of the sieved soil.
• It is important to break the soil up and sieve out
stones and large lumps.
• Loamy to sandy loam soils are the most suitable
as they provide the best medium in terms of
physical property for raising seedlings
Soil Based Potting Mixes
Seedling Preparation
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54. Using a cement mixer to mix the potting
mixture properly
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56. • Use 8” x 10” or 8” x 12” black polyethylene bags.
• The bags should be properly perforated to avoid
accumulation of excess water.
Seedling Preparation
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57. Bag filling with potting mixture.
Seedling Preparation
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66. • Lanzones and Citrus Seedlings
• Seedlings are ready for grafting in 8-10 months
• Durian and Mango
• Seedlings are ready for grafting in 6 to 8 months
• Cacao
• Seedlings are ready for grafting in 3 to 5 months
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STAGES OF SEEDLING DEVELOPMENT
OR IT REACHES PENCIL SIZE
104. PREPARING FOR WORK
• Work and storage areas are cleaned, sanitized and
secured.
• Tools, materials and equipment used are cleaned,
freed from contaminations
• Personal hygiene are observed according to OHS
procedures.
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