What are the steps of cloning a plant?

Question

Hello,

Okay I heard you can clone a plant but dont know all the details can somebody give me the steps here is what I got and I dont even know if they are right

Step1: Cut a stem of a branch at a 45* degree angle
Step2: Put in a water bucket with water
Step3: Wait until roots come out
Step4: Move the plant to the ground and now just wait for growing.

So if anyone knows about this please help me out with these questions

How long until the stem grows roots?

In what do I dip the stem when I recently cut before putting it on water?

Answer 1

Yes, you can clone most woody plants by rooting a cutting. if you dip the cut end in rooting hormone and place it carefully in sterile sprouting medium, you will increase your chances of it taking root. Water from the bottom while this process is going on. (That is, pour water into the saucer beneath the pot, letting the soil pull the water up, rather than pour water on top of the dirt, which is more likely to disturb the rooting process)

Rooting cuttings takes practice and patience. Get a book on plant propogation from the library - it will have lots of tip on just how and where to make your cutting, depending on the species of plant you're trying to propogate.

Answer 2

You don't need to do it from a single cell like the one person said.

The one person gave you good advice regarding the rooting hormone.

How you can get new plants varies from plant to plant. With colleus, you only have to do what you just said. However rooting hormone helps. The same thing goes with sweet potatoes. You just use toothpicks to suspend the potatoe about halfway in wanter in a mason jar then cut the green shoots off it and stick them in water.

Some plants such as daylillies and mums you just have to divide. Basically you just take the root ball and cut it in half to make two plants.

With other plants such as grape vines you can use layering. For layering you just take part of a vine or plant stem and bend it down so that it comes down to the ground. Then cover part of the stem with dirt and leave the rest of the stem above ground. The section below the ground will develop roots.

Another method that can be done uses a black plastic bag. This can be done with trees and many woody plants. Cut a 30 degree angle or so into a small portion of a limb. Don't make the cut so deep that it significantly weakens the limb. Then bend the limb back a little and use a toothpick covered in rooting hormone to put rooting hormone inside the cut. then use the toothpick to keep the cut open and stick some sphagnum pete moss into the cut. Below the cut wrap a piece of black plastic bag. Wrap the plastic up around the cut and fill it with pete moss and potting soil. Then add some water and tie up the top above the cut. This allows roots to grow inside of the bag. Keep the soil watered. After enough roots grow, cut the limb off and plant it in the ground.

For most cuttings you can just cut it at a 30-45 degree angle, treat it with rooting hormone then stick it in pot of wet sand or potting soil and let it grow. Not every cutting will take off. In fact, many of the cuttings will die. Many people will add stakes to the pot then cover the pot with a bag to make sure the cutting stays well watered and doesn't dry out. Normally roses and rosemary are propogated this way.

I recommend getting a gardening book by the American Horticultural Society. I have a big one from them. It tells all the ways certain types of plants can be propogated and has plenty of good picture illustrations of how to do it.

The book I have is called the American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening. It has basically almost everything and more you would like to know about plants. It covers almost every topic there is.

Here is that book:

http://www.amazon.com/American-Horticultural-Society-Encyclopedia-Gardening/dp/B000HDZ9MO

Here is another book you might be interested in:

http://www.amazon.com/American-Horticultural-Society-Propagation-Plant/dp/0789441160/ref=pd_sim_b_4_img/002-3872988-9885601

Answer 3

Cat has the right info..and this procedure is called "hard cuttings"...I do alot of hibiscus, bouganvillas, andeven do my tomatoe plants like this!

http://www.rooting-hormones.com/cuttype.htm


here is a chart telling you what type of cuttings and what types of root harmones to use..

Answer 4

um, to clone a plant you have to get one single cell, then divide the chromosomes so you have one of each pair...then grow it some how after that
who ever gave you those steps obviously didn't pay attention in biology class lol