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The Plant Propagator's Bible : A Step-By-Step Guide to Propagating Every Plant in Your Garden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Miranda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plant propagation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (731 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cool Springs Press 2021
- Summary:
- The Plant Propagator's Bible offers all you need to know to propagate new plants from existing ones.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- About this Book
- Tools and Techniques
- The Propagator's Tool Kit
- Hand tools
- Equipment and supplies
- Soil mixes
- Propagation equipment
- Starting from Seed
- Seed characteristics
- Flowers and seeds
- Starting seeds
- Leaching
- Soaking
- Scarification
- Stratification
- Light
- Dark
- Relative humidity
- Temperatures
- Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels
- Life cycles and growth characteristics
- Saving seeds
- Pollination
- Harvesting and cleaning
- Storing saved seeds
- Treating seeds to prevent disease
- Working with hybrids
- Dividing Established Plants
- Good digging
- Dividing plants with fibrous root systems
- Dividing plants with fleshy or woody crowns
- Dividing suckers
- Dividing plants with rhizomes
- Dividing plants with tubers
- Dividing plants with offsets
- Dividing plants with bulbs and corms
- Scoring, sectioning, scooping, and coring bulbs
- Scaling lily bulbs
- Cuttings
- Types of cuttings
- Greenwood cuttings
- Softwood cuttings
- Semiripe cuttings
- Hardwood cuttings
- Conifer cuttings
- Cane cuttings
- Leaf petiole cuttings
- Leaf vein cuttings
- Upright leaf cuttings
- Monocot leaf cuttings
- Root cuttings
- Layering
- Tip layering
- Simple and serpentine layering
- Air layering
- Stooling or mound layering
- French layering
- Dropping
- Grafting
- Grafting with rootstocks
- Whip-and-tongue grafting
- Apical-wedge grafting and saddle grafting
- Side-wedge grafting
- Approach grafting
- Four-flap grafting
- Side-veneer grafting
- T-budding
- Chip budding
- Grafting a cactus
- Plant Directory
- Glossary
- Hardiness Zones
- Plant List
- Index
- Credits
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Smith, Miranda The Plant Propagator's Bible
- ISBN:
- 9780760369807
- OCLC:
- 1293242226
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