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== Reproduction == | == Reproduction == | ||
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 the 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/> | |||
Grafting is where you take a cutting and cut the bottom of the cutting into a long v shape. Then the plant that is being used for understock, is cut so that there is a slit about the same length as the cutting with the v shape. The slit can be placed at the tip of the limb(called top grafting) or in the side (called side grafting). <ref name=Greer/> | |||
Layering is a way to make the new plant identical to the parent plant. This is where a low limb of the plant is pulled down onto the ground, covered with loose soil and weighed down with a rock. This form of propagation takes at least a year to start to really grow. 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 the 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/> | 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 the 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/> | ||
