Reproducing Plants - Propagation Roots of Growing

There are two general methods of multiplying or reproducing plants, and several reasons for practicing either or both methods. Sexual propagation occurs when a flower is fertilized and sets seeds; and the plants grown from the seeds inherit characteristics from their parents or even from their distant ancestors. Asexual, or vegetative, propagation includes various ways of making new plants from pieces of one parent; and the new plant possesses the characteristics of that parent.

Annual and biennial vines are started from seeds; and many biennial vines have a perennial effect because they perpetuate themselves by setting, dropping, and germinating fertile seeds every year. Perennials that flower the first season are grown like annuals, from seeds, or by rooting cuttings in fall and wintering them over in a window or greenhouse. Other perennial seedlings take so long to reach flowering size, faster vegetative propagation is preferred.

Sex Distant Disease

Before we leave this subject of sex and seeds, let's pinpoint the reason why some vines - like celastrus and actinidia - may fail to produce their attractive fruit. These plants bear "incomplete" flowers; that is, on one vine all flowers will be male; on another all flowers are female. In order to produce fruit and seeds, female flowers must be fertilized by pollen from the male. Since you can't tell the sex of a vine until it flowers, several young plants are set in the same planting hole or quite near each other to increase chances of pollination.

Reproducing Plants - Propagation Roots of Growing

Vegetative propagation includes cuttings of all kinds, layering, and division of rhizomes, tubers, and other roots. Some house and garden plants will reproduce by several methods, some by only one.

By any method of propagation the new plant is only as good as its origin. When you buy seeds, get the freshest and best you can find, from the most reliable supplier. Don't save your own seeds from hybrids like today's petunias. They won't "come true," won't produce plants like the seed-bearer. When you take cuttings or select a plant to be layered or divided, make sure the parent is healthy stock - not undernourished, diseased, beset by insect pests, or even forced into abnormal growth by overfeeding. Start with sturdy parents, and you will more likely end with sturdy offspring.

Reproducing Plants - Propagation Roots of Growing

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