Horticulture :: Propagation :: Introduction
Propagation through budding

It is yet another propagation technique where a vegetative bud is excised from a mother plant and used as the scion material. The technique involves.

  • The removal of selected vegetative bud along with a patch of bark from the scion plant and inserting it on to the stock plant.

  • The graft is further tied to keep the bud in place and maintained till the union takes place.

  • After the union is ensured, the portion of the stock above the bud union is removed and the sprout from the scion bud is encouraged to grow further.


Citrus budded Plant

Removal of bud, fixing in rootstock tying with polyethylene Strip and Sucessful graft
Technique of batch budding

  • Different budding techniques such as Shield budding, Patch budding, Ring budding are seen in use, in which the scion material (in the shape of a shield, a small rectangular patch, a ring respectively) is inserted on to the stock plant.
  • However, in the case of medicinal plants, budding is very rarely practiced

Update on: July 2015

 

 

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