Plant Propagation
EFB 437/637
Monday/Wednesday - 9:30 a.m. to 10:25 a.m., Illick 12
Friday - 12:45 p.m. to 3:35 p.m., Illick 530
Instructor: Terry Ettinger, Greenhouse Manager
Office: 529 Illick Hall
Phone: 315-470-6772
Mobile: 315-471-5854
Chapter 11 - Principles of Propagation by Cuttings (Chapter 10 in the 7th and 8th editions of the textbook)
In this chapter we'll focus closely on the specific types of cuttings and when to collect them, and how to care for them after they're collected, but before they're placed into a propagation system.
We'll also discuss the role of stock plant "etiolation," "banding," "blanching," and other techniques for propagating difficult-to-root species.
And, finally, we'll discuss the "secret sauce" many people consider to be the key to successfully propagating plants from cuttings - synthetic auxins. (However, we now know that the use of auxins in cutting propagation is only one of many considerations when it comes to the propagation of plants by cuttings, right?)
(Note - because of the shifting of chapters in the new, 9th edition of the text book, the introduction screens for each of the videos below will reference "Chapter 10" - not Chapter 11.)
"Hartmann & Kester’s Plant Propagation: Principles and Practices"
Chapter 11 - Techniques of Propagation by Cuttings
(Again, a reminder that this content is found in Chapter 10 of the 7th and 8th editions of the textbook)
"Video 1 - Introduction Through Softwood Stem Cuttings" (5:04 minutes)
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"Video 1A - Herbaceous, Softwood and Hardwood Stem Cutting Review" (4:33 minutes)
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"Video 2 - Semi-Hardwood and Hardwood Stem Cuttings" (8:34 minutes)
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"Video 3 - Coniferous Hardwood Stem Cuttings Through Root Cuttings" (7:46 minutes)
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"Video 4 - Stock Plant Pruning and Light Manipulation Strategies" (7:28 minutes)
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"Video 5 - Sources of Clonal Stock Plant Material" (3:43 minutes)
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"Video 6 - Role of Synthetic Auxins in Cutting Propagation" (6:44 minutes)
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"Video 7 - Key Concepts Review" (2:26 minutes)
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Assigned Online Resources:
None currently assigned.
"Plant Propagation: Concepts and Laboratory Exercises"
Chapter 14 - Plant Growth Regulators Used in Propagation
Chapter 19 - Use of Auxins for Rooting Cuttings
Chapter 22 - Care and Management of Stock Plants
Chapter 23 - Adventitious Shoot and Root Formation on Leaf and Root Cuttings.
"Methods of Auxin Application in Cutting Propagation: A Review of 70 Years of Scientific Discovery and Commercial Practice"
(link)Though now more than a decade old (published in the September 2007 issue of the Journal of Environmental Horticulture, Vol. 25, Issue 3:166-185), this is likely the most comprehensive review of the use of auxin-based growth regulators in the propagation of plants ever published.
Supplemental Online Resources:
None currently assigned.
Supplemental Video Content:
None currently assigned.