Propagation Technique

  Hi, welcome back to my blog. In this entry, I will share with you about week 7. In this week, we learned about propagation technique which is . By the way, before we proceed to this activity, we gathered at the farm workshop. Mr. Farid Bin Zainon who is alumni of UiTM in plantation course was shared with us about his experienced and his plantation knowledge.

Mr. Farid gave talk about plantation management in FELDA

   Next, Madam briefed  about propagation technique. There are several type of propagation technique which is seeding, cutting, layering and grafting.

Process of creating new plants from a variety of sources: seeds, cuttings, bulbs and other plant parts. Define as propagation as production of new individuals from a selected plant having all the characters of the original one. Plant Propagation is the technique of making two or more plants where previously there was one. By using various methods we can produce exact replicas that perpetuate much loved varieties or we can create entire new plants that may become favorites of the future. This refers to process of creating new plants from seeds, grafting, buddings, cuttings, tissue culture method.

Types of Plant Propagation 

›Sexual Propagation

›Recombination of genetic materials to form uniquely genetic individual through the formation of seed

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›Asexual Propagation

›Use of vegetative organs to create plantlets genetically identical to parent plant (clone)

1. Sexual propagation

•In this method, plant propagation is done through seeds or spore that is separated from the parent plant.

•It is also known as seed propagation

•Use of involve of the sexes, referring to the contribution of both the male and female gametes in the production of new plants.

•Seeds are produced as a result by sexual reproduction in fruits of the plants.

•A plant grown from seed may have different characteristics than its parent tree

2. Layering

›Layering is a means of plant propagation in which a portion of an aerial stem grows roots while still attached to the parent plant and then detaches as an independent plant.

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› Layering has evolved as a common means of vegetative propagation of numerous species in natural environments.

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› Layering is also utilized by horticulturists to propagate desirable plants.

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›Natural layering typically occurs when a branch touches the ground, whereupon it produces adventitious root.

3. Grafting

›Grafting or Graf tage is a horticultural technique where by tissue from one plant are inserted into those another.

›The technique is most commonly used asexually propagation of commercially grown plants.

›Eg: Durian, mango etc

Grafting and bud grafting:

4. Micropropagation/tissue culture

Practice of rapidly multiplying stock plant material to produce a large number of progeny plants, using modern plant tissue culture methods. Is used to multiply noble plants such as those that have been genetically modified or bred through conventional plant breeding methods.

5. CUTTINGS

›One of the easiest way of plant propagation is by using cutting from various parts of plants such as:

ØStem cuttings

ØRoot cuttings

ØLeaf cuttings

›A piece of the stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil, potting mix, coir or rock wool.

›The cutting produces new roots, stems, or both, and thus becomes a new plant independent of the parent.

In this week, we learnt and did the grafting, budding and marcoting techniques for the plants.

Grafting and budding techniques

We applied Plant hormone for the faster growth of plant

Lecturer shows the marcoting technique to student