Then place your cutting into a glass of water immediately. Take a cutting at a 45-degree angle close to (not into) the main stem as this helps to increase the surface area, making it easy for the roots to sprout. CutĪs new cuttings are very sensitive to microorganisms, bacteria, etc., be sure to clean and sterilize the scissors/knife /razor before doing. You often see this as a “v” form, where you will see the new growth – new branch regrows after the cutting. Identify a vigorous branch that comes off from the main stem. Select a healthy well-established plant, which does not indicate any sign of diseases for weeks. Using it doesn’t decrease the cloning rate, but only to increase it.
Personally, I use the hormones because it speeds up the rooting process. Other types such as large fruiting or single harvest crops are hard to clone without applying that stimulant. But you can only clone easily for some crops like tomatoes, mint, basil, rosemary, peppers without using rooting hormones. Some prefer to let plants grow naturally and do not like to use synthetic hormones that may contain chemicals. It may boil down to preferences if you want to use the rooting hormones or not. Rooting hormones can be organic (honey, willow extract) or synthetic in the powder, liquid or gel form. The rooting hormones help stir the plant cell growth and establish roots faster. Some plants like tomatoes are easy to clone because they possess lots of natural auxins hormones while others are challenging to do without using an added hormone. They have the auxins hormones themselves, which aid in the initial root creation.
– Rockwool cubes/Soils/a cup of water/cloning machine (depending on the method you use for cloning) 1.2 Rooting hormones or not?īy nature, plants can produce the rooting hormones themselves after a short span of time. – Plastic/humor dome to cover the cloner. In this post, I will cover the four primary effective methods to clone, which have been proven and used globally. It’s not uncommon to see some of your clones die before rooting. You can clone as many cuttings as you want as long as the original plants still have lots of branches.īut that doesn’t mean you can do ten clonings and all of them successfully root. Also, when the cuttings of the plants are inherently mature, they can also flower fast after rooting.Ĭloning does not really affect the mother plant’s health. – Instead of the germination step when starting to grow a plant, making a clone is another widely used method of producing a new plant. – Cloning is an efficient way to keep the best genes as the new plants will inherit the same qualities and characteristics of the mother plants. – Cloning is a quick easy and cost-saving method of making new plants. There are several reasons why as a gardener you should propagate plants. After 1-3 weeks, the roots will form from the cutting, and a new life of a clone begins. Simply put, cloning is just to take the cutting/clipping of a plant and grow it elsewhere on its own. Plant cloning is the act of producing identical genetical plants from an original plant.
While new growers may find it confusing, but the process is really simple within a few steps. Any seasoned, as well as new gardeners, should always at least clone plants once. People have done this for thousands of years.
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