Reproduction houseplants

• Reproduction perennials
• Reproduction bulbous crops
• Reproduction of other species

The new healthy, beautiful indoor plant can grow, if you use high-quality planting materials in the form of seeds or by rooting of the plant (vegetativeway). Only a few plants taken propagateseeds. These include dracaena, cineraria, cyclamen, various types of palm, asparagus. Basically the same plants, like most arts-valent, multiply vegetatively way - cuttings, rhizomes, offshoots, mustache, layers, baby-bulbs, dividing the bushes. The main advantage of vegetative mode of reproduction - is the exact preservation of all existing signs and varietal characteristics of the plant. Reproduction of seeds - the easiest and cheapest way to get the planting material. When storing seeds in favorable conditionsmost of them do not lose the ability to germinate for many years, but not always retain varietal characteristics. Most of seed multiplication are used for planting annual flowers or balcony as an experiment. |

Propagation seeds

Before sowing, check the seeds for germination. Small seeds mixed with sand and spread evenly over the area sown.

Seeds of the earth does not sprinkle, but a little push to the ground glass. Large seeds are soaked to a depth of 2 times greater than the size of seeds, andasleep with a thin layer of soil.

The soil is wetted with water from a spray bottle and cover with glass.Crops are kept in a warm shady place at a constant temperature of 22 - 25 C.The grown seedlings, with 2-3 pairs of young leaves, diving, that is transplanted into pots or balcony flower boxes.

Cloning

Fans of indoor flower often propagated by vegetative means to

1) replace the old plant a new one;

2) have more favorite plants;

3) to give to friends;

4) to exchange for another plant that is not in the collection.

The most common method of vegetative propagation - cuttings. Reproduction of stem cuttings

Healthy annual shoots are cut into several cuttings length 6 - 8 cm 2. - 3 internodes and 3 - 4 leaves. The lower part of the cutting should be free of leaves.

With a sharp knife cut off the escape of 1 -1.5 cm below the leaf node. The lower part of the shoot (especially if sharing is difficult to take root) for a few hours immersed in a solution of growth substances (heteroauxin).In prepared dishes laid drainage of the gravel layer of 2-3 cm, then at 4 - 5 cm substrate, consisting of leaf and peat, sand in the ratio 1:1:1, and sprinkled the top with a layer of coarse sand 3-5 cm. After this sharing is placed in the substrate to a depth of 1,5 - 2 cm and the soil around the crush.

Planted and watered and sharing for 5 - 7 day cover with a plastic bag, creating a semblance теплички with warm and moist air. The best time for propagation by cuttings - Spring (March - May). Rooted in this period cuttings Abutilon, Pelargonium, begonias, fuchsias bloom in summer. Reproduction of tip cuttings.

Relatively easy to use and method of propagation of plants from cuttings of tip:

1) Cut from the top flight with a sharp knife cutting a length of 9-13 cm;

2) dip the cutting into the solution geteroksina or other growth stimulator;

3) put in the substrate, not buried the lower leaves;

4) Pour a little soil around the pot and cover with a plastic bag;

5) Check the condition of rooting plants: 3 - 4 weeks may appear first roots.

Such plants as the chrysanthemum, fuchsia, pelargonium, pink, hydrangea, propagated by cuttings of tip.

Some plants such as Tradescantia pelargonium, beloperone, Ficus, oleander, Coleus, jasmine sambak, rooted directly in the bottle or tall glass of water.

Reproduction leaf cuttings.

Many plants reproduce fine leaf cuttings. Saintpaulia, decorative-sheeted begonias, gloxinia, peneromni can be multiplied by a sheet. With a sharp knife at the base of the plant cut a leaf with the stem length of 3 - 5cm.

Put in a glass of water for 2 weeks or dip in phytohormones. In the prepared substrate, make an indentation and then stalk with a slope of 45 degrees so that the lower surface of the sheet facing the wall of the pot. The soil around the stem primnite.

Reproduction of part of the sheet

Part of the leaf begonia breeding, sansevisriya, Streptocarpus. Uninfected leaves are cut into several pieces so that each piece had a clearly distinguishable stems, and placed on the surface of the substrate or placed with an inclination of 45 ° in the coarse disinfected moist sand at 1 / 3 of the height and covered with a plastic bag so that the edges of leaflets did not come into contact with the walls package. Pot set in a warm shaded place with a temperature of 20 - 22 C. After 3 - 4 weeks will the roots and pack will be removed.

Propagation by layering

Many hang-downing plants can be propagated by layering - young healthy shoots, which are recommended for best rooting is pressed against the ground pin or wire. Rooted shoot with young shoots should itsadit in another pot.

Reproduction offspring

There are plants that like briofillum Degremona form the edges of leaves a large number of siblings - a fully-formed child seedlings with aerial roots. Most bromelievyh, succulents and cacti as the same breed offspring, extending from the main stem. They are separated and planted in small pots.

Reproduction mustache

Some plants reproduce mustache (Chlorophytum crested, Saxifraga pletenosnaya and others), which should prikopat in the soil for rooting, and zetem separated from the mother plant and transplanted into a separate pot

Reproduction by fission bush

This is the easiest way to get the planting material. So multiply the spring ferns, papyrus, bromelievye, Chlorophytum, tsiperus, Maranta, Saintpaulia, Sansevierias, some herbaceous perennials. To do this, the adult plant is removed from the pot.

Released from the soil. Cut all with a sharp knife to separate parts so that each must have growth buds. Planted every bush in the prepared substrate.

Propagation by air layering

Air layering is well reproduce rhododendrons (azaleas), fig, lilac, figs, dieffenbachia, dracaena, Monstera and other plants. The best time for reproduction air layering - spring and early summer. At the selected escape in 20 - 30 cm from its top, remove the leaves. Take a sharp knife, cut the ring width 1-1,5 cm incision Treat growth stimulants (heteroauxin or its equivalent). Apply and secure on this site sphagnum moss. Below the notch secure a solid black plastic film, giving it the form of a cellophane bag. Both edges of the film (above and below the cut) fix tape or tie braid to when irrigation water is not leaking from the bottom, and above would not fall precipitation, which can moistened peat. Black film prevents the penetration of light and increases the temperature of the substrate around the notch.

When the peat will break through the roots, cut off the rooted shoot shears below the adhesive tape and otsadite into the pot. Depending on the type of plant rooting process may take 2 - 6 months.

Grafts

Such plants as citrus fruits, pomegranates, roses and many species of cacti are propagated by grafting, ie, a small stalk or kidney carry a cultivated plant (scion) on seedling (rootstock). The resulting plant has all the positive properties of the plant, from which was cut a bud or stem.