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For those who enjoy gardening Azaleas, not only can you let your Azalea reproduce natually, but you can help them reproduce by five different techniques. These five techniqes or ways of propagation is cuttings, grafting, layering, seed, or tissue culture.<ref name=Greer/> | For those who enjoy gardening Azaleas, not only can you let your Azalea reproduce natually, but you can help them reproduce by five different techniques. These five techniqes or ways of propagation is cuttings, grafting, layering, seed, or tissue culture.<ref name=Greer/> | ||
Cuttings is where you cut from the tip growth of the mother plant and plant the cuttings in the ground and have the cutting root. Dipping th cutting in a rooting hormone that has indolebutyric acid in it, will provide easier rooting. The rooting may take from six weeks to twelve months, sometimes not even at all. <ref name=Greer/> | Cuttings is where you cut from the tip growth of the mother plant and plant the cuttings in the ground and have the cutting root. Dipping th cutting in a rooting hormone that has indolebutyric acid in it, will provide easier rooting. The rooting may take from six weeks to twelve months, sometimes not even at all. This form of propagation will cause the new growth to be identical to the mother plant. <ref name=Greer/> | ||
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