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 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/>
+Seed is a sexual and natural reproduction rather than all of the above being vegatative propagation. As a result this plant will not be a clone. A seed is very tiny, as a result it requires a smooth fine surface in order to start growing. The seed usually takes any where from three to eight weeks, in some cases it takes longer to sprout. <ref name=Greer/>
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