NRM 215 Plant Propagation

Aeroponics
This article describes the advantages and disadvantages of aeroponics in comparison with hydroponics.

Aggie Horticulture Network
This site offers a wide variety of grafting methods contributed by horticulture professors, cooperative extension, and agricultural extension services.

Agricultural Research Service
ARS has information on the following subjects: Protecting crops and livestock from pests and disease, Improving the quality and safety of agricultural products, Determining the best nutrition for people from infancy to old age, Sustaining our soil and other natural resources, Ensuring profitability for farmers and processors, Keeping costs down for consumers, and Providing research support to other federal agencies.

Air Layering For Difficult-To-Root Plants
This site covers the basics of air layering. It’s a step by step guide with diagrams and descriptions. It’s short but includes enough information to get the reader started.

Alaska Revegetation Manual
This manual provides an overview of revegetation in Alaska.

American Dahlia Society
Links to dahlia societies, suppliers and dahlia fanciers all over the world.

American Fern Society, The
Information on propagation and spore exchange.

Apomixis: Embryo sacs and embryos formed without meiosis or fertilization in ovules PDF
The objectives of this article are to describe the processes of different forms of apomixis and compare them with sexual reproduction.

Approach Grafting
This article is on approach grafting,  a method where both plants retain their root systems in the initial stages of the procedure.

Australian Plant Society
This website promotes the use of native plants and has links to related articles.

The Avocado
Very informative site on how to vegatatively propagate avocados.

Bark Grafting
This site includes a step by step illustrated guide about the process of bark grafting.

Berries May Protect Against Cancer and Heart Disease
Here is a link from the ARS site about "Berries May Protect Against Cancer and Heart Disease".

Bibliography of References Related to Seed Dormancy and/or Germination in Higher Plants
This website has a database containing over 12,000 references.

Biotechnological improvements of tea PDF
This site provides information on tea (Camellia sinensis) reproduction methods, from conventional to biotechnological.

Bird of Paradise
This is a website that contains the description, characteristics, optimum growth environment, easiest propagation techniques, and general care for Strelitzia reginae, or Bird of Paradise plants.

Bonsai Site
This is "a truly detailed guide to bonsai, as an art, hobby and horticultural practice."

Botany.com
Common or Botanical names can be used to look up specific information.

Brocolli
Here can you get an answer of the most common questions about broccoli.

California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc.
This monograph of the Babaco provides a description of this natural occurring seedless papaya found in the highlands of Ecuador.

Carnivorous Plant
You can learn techniques on cultivating and propagating carnivorous plants.

Carrots
Info. about the most importent ways of carrot growing.

Chilling requirements for seed germination of 10 Utah species of perennial Wild Buckwheat(PDF)
This article examines the chilling requirements of 10 different species of wild buckwheat.

A comparison of methods for drying seeds: vacuum freeze-drier versus silica gel
This website in an online published article about comparing the vacuum freeze-drying method of seed drying versus the silica gel method.

College of Forest Resources, Native Plant Production
This resource website gives an excellent database for varying propagation and growing methods for Native Northwest Plants for production and revegetation including seed cultivation, seed germination--breaking dormancy, best methods of propagation.

Commercial Specialty Cut Flower Production Peonies PDF
Good site for propagation techniques of cultivators suitable for cut flower production of peonies.

Compost tea as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Clear step by step instructions with photographic illustration of each step.

Conservation of Australian Orchids by Seed Propagation
Iinformation on artificial propagation that could be used to help conserve endangered species.

Dahlia culture
This site addresses aspects of dahlia culture, including insect and disease treatments.

Dahlia propagation
Directions on dahlia propagation from seed, from tubers and from cuttings.

Development of Phalaenopsis Orchids for the Mass-Market
This article gives a history of the horticultural development of the potted Phalaenopsis orchid for sale in the retail market. It also discusses the difficulties and methods used in propagation of the orchid both by seed and tissue culture.

Division of Agricultural: Plant Materials Center
This is the website for the Northern Latitudes Plant Materials Center (PMC), a branch of the AK Division of Agriculture.

Dogwoods for American Gardens PDF
“Dogwoods for American Gardens” covers the planting and maintenance, cultivars, types of diseases, and insects that strike the flowering dogwoods.

Doing Dahlias - A Project of The Colorado Dahlia Society
This site offers a list of over 70 dahlia suppliers.

El Pahuma Orchid Reserve: Orchid Propagation
This site summarizes the propagation program for orchids.

Everything that You wanted to know about the Rooting of Plant Cuttings
This website provides information on the use of a plant rooting hormone (Rhizopon AA).

Experiences: Establishing native wetland plants in a constructed wetland  PDF
This site follows the methods and processes used in germinating 10 wetland plant species and creating the wetlands.

Forcing of Potted Amaryllis (Hippeastrum)
Tthis site offers detailed information on the home forcing of potted amaryllis bulbs.

Fraser South Rhododendron Society: Rhododendron Basics.
This website provides the basics for propagating rhododendrons. The methods contained here are cuttings, grafting, layering, seed, and tissue culture.

Fruit trees
Considerations, Foundation, Nursery Stock, Planting, Varieties, Fertilization, Thinning, Pollination, Irrigation, Pruning

Garden Web Forums
Garden Web Forums claims to serve the largest community of gardeners on the net.

Gibberellic acid for fruit set and seed germination
This article is both a discussion and a 'how-to' on using gibberellins in plant propagation.

The Ginkgo Pages
This site covers the history, propagation, classification, and uses of the ginkgo tree.

Grafting
This site gives a very good overview of grafting, why do it, what can be grafted and the best part, the how to including great illustrations.

Greening of Potatoes
Is it dangerous or not.

Growing Ferns (PDF)
This University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension fact sheet provides a good introduction to the growing of ferns.

Growing Garlic in Minnesota
This website provides information on growing garlic in cold climates.

Growing Herbs for the Home Gardener
This article is useful for the home gardener interested in the culture, propagation and uses of both annual and perennial herbs used in cooking.

Harvesting and Saving Garden Seeds
This article offers advice pertaining to the selection, harvest, storage, and propagation of seeds from garden plants.

Home Fruit Production-Bananas
The site gives basic information about obtaining banana tree suckers for propagation.

Home Propagation Techniques PDF
Home Propagation Techniques covers seed propagation and asexual propagation, including layering, grafting, division, aseptic methods, plus others.

Houseplants
This is an excellent website for anyone looking for information on houseplant selection, care, growing requirements, propagation, and health. It provides clear and concise information in all areas although not necessarily extensive in nature.

How to propagate by dividing
This website provides the basics of plant propagation through the separation of the root mass of a plant.

Hybrid seed production in tomato
This website describes both the mechanical and manual methods of seed extraction and fermentation

Insect Pollinators help Preserve Plant Treasures
This is an article on pollination and genetic viability of plants grown in some agriculture stations.

International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds
This is the definitive website on weeds that have become resistant to herbicides, which is mainly due to outcrossing with GM crops.

In vitro propagation of Vanilla planifolia, a tropical orchid PDF
This site is an article describing a micro-propagation protocol for the vanilla orchid (Vanilla planifolia) using shoot tip and nodal segments as explants.

Kitchen Culture Kits, Inc.
This website gives information on how to start tissue cultures at home without expensive equipment.

Kiwifruit
The intention of the site is to provide general information about the kiwi fruit although it does provide details on propagating kiwi by seed, grafting, and budding.

Kongsvoll Alpine Garden
They have a reserve of all alpine plants in Norway.

Landscape Plant Propagation Workbook: Unit IV. Propagation by Division
This site is a workbook which describes and teaches how to propagate by division various plant organs.

Landscaping for Wildlife in Alaska
The information presented on the website is meant to advise the user on methods of propagation of plant species for the purpose of attracting wildlife.

Lingonberry: Potential new fruit for the northern United States
This site goes into the lingonberry in great detail.

Lotus
Lotus seeds information on everything pertaining to growing lotus plants.

Mandevilla
This is a great tropical plant that is easy to grow as a houseplant or outside in the summer.

Mimosa pudica
This is a site for the general audience interested in propagating Mimosa pudica.

Mosser Lee Company, 1999. How To Index
Basic information on topics including air layering, root cuttings, and propagating African violets.

Model for Expanded Use of Native Grasses PDF
In this article the authors detail a plan for using native grasses to revegetate the landscape. It focuses on both biological and economic factors, which both play an important role in this process.

National Onion Society
Every aspect of onion cultivation and use, not to mention onion trivia, history and quotes.

Native Plants Propagation Protocol Database: Propagation Techniques
This site gives a brief introduction on how to propagate native plants, stating that it is both an art and a science.

New Pollinators Buzzing with Potential
This article describes some alternative pollinators to bees.

North American Blueberry Council (NABC)
This site is for everyone who needs info. about blueberry.

North Carolina State University, Cooperative Extension
The site is titled "Grafting and Budding Nursery Crop Plants".

Northern Gardening
At the Northern Gardening site, you can connect to the Northern Gardening Forum.

Notice of release of Leelanau germplasm highbush cranberry selected class of natural germplasm PDF
This document announces the release of a cultivar of the highbush cranberry (Viburnum opulus var. americanum Aiton) called Leelanau.

Ohio Master Gardeners- Plant Propagation
This site includes information on sexual and asexual propagation of plants.

Ornamental Grasses for Cold Climates
This site offers the results of a six year study on ornamental grasses.

Overcoming Seed Dormancy: Trees and Shrubs
This website is a North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service pamphlet on seed dormancy.

Palm Plantations of Australia. Vanilla Cultivation.
This is a very interesting site about the vanilla orchid and the bean it produces.

Passion Flower. Cultivation and Propagation
A short, to the point article on growing passion flowers, propagating, care and overwintering them.

Perennial Publications 2005
This is a good site for perennial and horticultural information including reviews of publications concerning propagation of various plant species.

Pikao (or Pingao) the Golden Sand Sedge - Propagation of Pikao
This site provides information on how to successfully propagate Desmoschoenus spiralis, golden sand sedge.

Plant Propagation by Leaf, Cane, and Root Cuttings: Instructions for the Home Gardener
This web page provides illustrated instructions for the cutting propagation methods listed in the title.

Plant Propagation by Stem Cuttings: Instructions for the Home Gardener
This site gives a list of common garden plants and the type of cuttings that work best for each.

Plant tissue culture
General descriptions of what tissue culture is, how to use it and detailed case studies.

Plant Tissue Culture Information Exchange
Information about tissue culture and links to numerous information sources about tissue culture.

Plant Propagation by Layering: Instructions for the Home Gardener
This website provides an introduction to layering for plant propagation.

Plant tissue culture for home gardeners
How micropropogation can be accomplished using materials found around the home.

Plants For A Future, Plant Database
This website as a search engine 7,300 edible, medicinal and useful plants that include propagation methods for each.

Plumeria PDF
Information pertaining to characteristics, culture, propagation, pest and diseases, and more.

Pollination
This site offers many links related to pollination.

Potting Mixes for Certified Organic Production PDF
Not only does this site describe in detail numerous possibilities for soil building blocks, but it gives precise recipes and side notes on the how and from where certain soil amendments are
obtained.

Propagating Deciduous and Evergreen Shrubs, Trees, and Vines with Stem Cuttings.
This site includes information on types of cuttings such as tips, mallets, and heels.

Propagating herbaceous plants from cuttings PDF
This paper contains a detailed summary of the propagation of herbaceous plants via cuttings.

Propagating methods of Haworthia
A good site for anyone interested in propagating Haworthias. Other links included.

Propagation of Alaska Native Plants for Restoration and Landscape Use PDF
This report includes best methods for seedling germination and container growing in seven Alaskan native herbaceous legumes.

Propagation of Bulbs
This website describes how to propagate “bulblets” from plant bulbs.

Propagation of Dahlias by Cuttings
The site explains two ways in which to propagate dahlias; by sprout cuttings or be leaf cuttings. You are given step by step directions and close up photos which help a novice visualize the process for the two types of propagation.

Propagation of Plants by Stem
Basic information on plant propagation by stem cuttings with discussion on rooting media.

Propagation of Succulent Plants
This site goes into general detail regarding how to propagate succulent species.

Pumpkin, Cucurbita spp. 
The pumpkin page describes characteristics, history and development, diseases and insects, harvesting, and briefly describes two propagation methods for the plant.

Purdue Landscape and Nursery Thesaurus, The
Some of the 196 links include apple rootstocks, effects of soil temperature on germination of vegetable seeds, in-vitro propagation, peach rootstocks, plant tissue culture information exchange, seed propagation of birch, shield budding, and vegetable seed saving tips.

Rapid propagation of Phalaenopsis from floral stalk-derived leaves PDF
The objective was to refine methods for tissue culture propagation of orchids as the previous methods were not always successful for certain hybrids of Phalaenopsis

Reed Canyon Enhancement Strategy, Non-Native Species Management
This site is about rehabilitation of land invaded by noxious weeds and replacing them with native plants.

Reproduction and Life Cycle of Ferns and their Allies
The article describes in detail the life cycle and reproductive cycle of the ferns.

Review of the Promotive Effects on Smoke on Seed Dormancy
This article summarizes various studies on the effects of smoke on seed germination.

Rooting Database
Expect to find in this database pertinent information on vegetative propagation of shrubs and trees.

Rooting for You: Plant Propagation with Stem Cuttings PDF
This report covers in broad detail the asexual propagation of plants using stem cuttings. It includes information on what to cut, how and when. It also includes information on how to properly plant the stem and care for it during early stages of establishment.

Roses
This webpage has thorough knowledge on any type of rose.

Roses in Alaska: Soils, pH, and Digging the Hole
This is made by Alaska Rose Society.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Science and Horticulture
This site focuses on the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens collection of plants conserved thru horticulture.

Sago Palms, How to grow them from seed
This is a very informative site relating to sago palms and growing them from seed.

Savory Herbs, Culture and Use
This website is written for those who want to grow herbs and prepare appetizing food dishes using the herbs. The site also includes cultivation of herbs that are easily grown as well as those that are more difficult to grow.

Seed germination enhancement for Carex nebrascensis (Nebraska Sedge) PDF
This site provides information associated with a germination test done for Carex nebrascensis, a sedge species.

Staghorn Fern; A Rarity Worth Growing
Information on the cultivation and propagation of Staghorn ferns is covered.

Succulent Plant Page
The site contains a fabulous amount of information on both cacti and succulents.

Succulent Tissue Culture: a New Way of Producing Cacti and Other Succulents
Succulent Tissue Culture specializes in the in vitro reproduction of cacti and other succulents.

Taking Slips for Propagation
This article defines the term "slip" and provides a description of the process of propagating a plant via a slip. The author provides insight into the vulnerabilities of this method of propagation and suggests ways to successfully deal with these vulnerabilities.

Tissue Culture and Biotechnology University of Natal Peitermaritzburg
This site is an aid for students in tissue culture and biotechnology.

Tissue Culture Micropropagation, Conservation, and Export of Potato Germplasm PDF
This paper contains a summary of the advantages of using tissue culture as a means of storing and distributing potato germplasm for agricultural use.

Tropical Hibiscus: “Queen of the Tropics”
This site is a compilation of information on growing tropical hibiscus flowers.

United Plant Savers. Planting the Future
This organization’s website is based on conserving, protecting, and finding new ways to reproduce endangered medicinal plants.

U.S. EPA River Corridor and Wetland Restoration
This site gives information about how to become involved in a community based watershed restoration project through the agencies Five Star Restoration Program.

Vegetative Propagation of Clivias
This website describes how to divide these beautiful, easy to grow South African plants.

Where there’s smoke… there’s germination? PDF
Seeds of many fire-adapted plants are very difficult to germinate, and some species have been impossible to propagate by seed. Recent research has shown that fumigating seeds with smoke or soaking them in smoke solutions improves germination of many species.

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