What is Propagation by budding?

Question

We have to do an assignment is school using the school computers only. And here, we have blockers so I can't go to wikipedia or anything like that!!

Please help!!

Thank you!
Carly F.

Answer 1

Budding is a special form of grafting in which only a single bud of a desired variety with little or no wood is inserted into the stock. It is preferred to grafting for many species of plants, gives less satisfactory results with others, and works about equally well with still others.
http://plantpropagation.com/budding.htm

It's done while the bark of the plants to be "worked" will readily separate when gently pried from the young wood beneath (from midsummer until early autumn).

Grafting and budding are methods of asexual plant propagation that join plant parts so they will grow as one plant. These techniques are used to propagate cultivars that will not root well as cuttings or whose own root systems are inadequate.

Four conditions must be met for grafting to be successful: the scion (portion of the cultivar that is to be propagated) & rootstock must be compatible; each must be at the proper physiological stage; the cambial layers ( layer of cells located between the wood and bark of a stem from which new bark and wood cells originate) of the scion and stock must meet; and the graft union must be kept moist until the wound has healed.
http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/propagation/grafting.html

Good Luck! Hope this is helpful.

Answer 2

Go to the local library and use thier computers as many let you do..search "propogation by budding"..and print out the article then go from there