Horticulture :: Propagation :: Introduction
Cut Flowes
Cut Rose: Rosa sp

Propagation
  • Cut roses are commercially propagated by ‘T’ budding on Briar rootstock.

Cut Chrysanthemum: Dendranthema grandiflora)

Propagation

  • Terminal cuttings and tissue culture plants are used.

  • Terminal cuttings are widely used for commercial cultivation.

  • Cuttings of 5-7 cm length are taken from healthy stock plants and are induced to root by treating with IBA (1000 ppm).

Carnation: Dianthus caryophyllus

Propagation

  • Division of clumps, keikis, back bulbs and tissue culture plants

Lilium: Lilium sp

Propagation

  • Liliums are commercially propagated through bulbs.

  • A six week cold storage period at 2oC to 5oC is needed to break dormancy. Bulbs can be stored at - 20C up to one year.

Gladiolus: Gladiolus spp

Propagation

Tetraploids:
  • Commercial propagation is through corms.

  • Cold storage of corms at 3 to 7°C for 3 months or treatment with Ethrel (1000ppm) or GA3 (100ppm) or Thiourea (500 ppm) is adopted for breaking corm dormancy

Triploids

  • Propagated through terminal cuttings of 10 - 15 cm length (41,700 cuttings/ha).

Gerbera: Gerbera jamesonii

Propagation

  • Commercially propagated through division of suckers and tissue culture plants.

China Aster: Callistephus chinensis

Propagation

  • Propagated through seeds.

Source:

Crop Production Techniques of Horticultural Crops 2013
Update on: July 2015
 

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