In the previous installments of plant propagation I covered stem cutting. As promised, I’ll cover five more methods of plant propagation here.
Other Methods Of Plant Propagation
Leaf Section
- How: Break off a healthy leaf from the base of the parent plant after removing it from the pot and cut the leaf crosswise.
- Suits: Plants with long leaves like mother-in-law’s tongue, and those with prominent veins in the leaves like begonias.
Plantlets
- How: Detach a well-developed replica of the parent plant from its leaves or at the end of long stalks (stolons).
- Suits: Spider plants and aloe.
Division
- How: Remove the parent plant from the pot, and gently split apart the sections that are clearly divided.
- Suits: African Violets and ferns.
Offsets
- How: Remover the well-developed small plants which appear around the base of the parent plant.
- Suits: Bromeliads and succulents
Layering
- How: Get roots that have formed on the trailing stem of the parent plant into contact with soil or rooting mixture in a nearby pot. Cut the new growth from the parent plant.
- Suits: Creeping plants
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