Vegetative Techniques (01:37)

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Using vegetative techniques helps take advantage of plants' natural growth habits. Plants reach maturity faster from vegetative germination than from seeds.

What is Vegetative Propagation? (02:57)

Propagation is the reproduction of plants using tissues of a parent plant other than seeds. Vocabulary includes crown, node, internode, propagule and adventitious roots.

Crown Division, Offshoots & Suckers (03:50)

Crown division is splitting a plant at the crown or collar. Offshoots can be removed from a parent plant to start a new one. Suckers are spurts coming from the root above the crown.

Layering (06:37)

Layering stimulates roots to form on a stem that is still attached to the parent plant. Different types of layering include simple, tip, mound, and air.

Runners & Stolons (02:36)

Stolons are specialized stems that run horizontal to the ground. Stolons and runners layer naturally. Runners are a type of stolon that develops between the leaf axial and the crown.

Bulbs & Corms (05:50)

Underground plant structures hold food, water, and energy. The basic bulb forms are tunicate and scaly. Both can develop offsets or bulblets, which can then be propagated.

Tubers & Tuberous Roots (03:40)

These vegetation propagation structures grow underground. Tubers are modified stems and tuberous roots develop out of root tissues. Many root crops are eatable tubers.

Rhizomes (02:18)

Rhizomes are modified stems that grow underground. They grow horizontally, away from the parent plant.

Credits: Science of Propagation, Volume 3: Vegetative Techniques (00:48)

Credits: Science of Propagation, Volume 3: Vegetative Techniques