Mother Plant - What Does a Mother Plant Refer to When You're Taking Cuttings?
By Marie Iannotti, About.com Guide
See More About: ...
The mother plants often form numerous basal rosettes that can be divided in the fall or spring to make new plants.
Remove mother plants each year or two allowing runner plants to take their place. Thin runners to allow at least 6" between plants.
ABOUT US :: GARDEN RESOURCES :: LINK TO US :: ...
STOCK - The "mother plant" of which cuttings are taken. Stock is also in reference to plants being grafted on "stock". Many hybrids are grafted on good stock material because they have better and sturdier qualities for growing.
Pineapple plants can produce one or more shoots (also refered to as suckers) at the base of the mother plant.
If this is the case, simply take cuttings from the mother plant.
Not only will the mother plants become bushier, you'll increase your stock of geraniums just in time for spring!
Propagating Geranium Plants
Geraniums are easily grown from seed.
The proper time for taking cuttings from the mother plant is when the sap is in full motion, in order that, in returning by the bask, it may form a callus or protruding ring of granular substance between the bark and wood, whence the roots proceed.
There is a minimum disturbance and no adverse effect to the mother plant.
During propagation both mother plant and new plant develop.
The new plant will have cloning characteristics of the mother plant.
Tip from Anne of Corinth, MS: Anne writes that she, too, has a method that seems to decrease the shock of cutting the new hydrangea plant from the mother plant.
Gently pull a chick from the mother plant and pop it into a new location. And voilà ! You have a 'single' chick. It's that easy! And Sempervivum needs very little dirt to settle into its new lifestyle, too.
You can also take cuttings of dusty miller, severing 3 in (7.6 cm) long stems from the mother plant. The feltlike covering on the stems inhibits root formation, so gently scrape the felt off the lower inch of the cutting with a sharp knife.
Strawberries can spread aggressively by producing runners, which are long shoots produced by the mother plant with clusters of leaves at the top. The runners will root when they touch the ground forming daughter plants.
Cut healthy leaves from the center of the mother plant with a stem 1 1/2 to 2 inches long. Slice through the stem at a 45-degree angle. Put the leaf aside a few hours to heal the cut end. A callus will form.
During the growing season, mother plants produce a crop of berries as well as three to six offshoots - smaller versions of themselves, called 'daughter' plants.
Planting a Rainbow is a brightly illustrated book that helps children learn their colors as they find out about the garden a child and his mother plant. Most children's garden books only discuss seeds, but this book starts in the fall with bulbs.
In July the small "baby runners" sprouting from the mother plant are harvested and rooted in a greenhouse under mist irrigation.
While most lavender is grown from cuttings taken from a mother plant, it is also possible to grow certain varieties from seeds.
Seeds from hybrids will not come true to type, which means they will exhibit characteristics that are different from those of the mother plant (but not necessarily unattractive).
A form of propogation in which shoots that are still attached to the mother plant are layed on top or just under the soil surface so that rooting occurs. Once rooted, the layered section can be cut from the mother plant and moved elsewhere.
After harvest, cut the mother plant down to ground level. The "follower" will take her place for next year's banana growing!
Linda is an author of Gardening Tips Tricks and Howto's of Gardening Guides and the Lawn Care section of the Lawnmower Guide.
If you want to produce another plant, just leave the keiki attached to the mother plant until it sprouts new leaves and shoots that are at least a couple inches long. When root growth is just beginning, you can remove the keiki.
Aloe is propagated by offshoots from the mother plant. Simply remove baby plants, and repot. This is by far, the most common way to propagate aloe.
The seeds from flowers can also be harvested for propagation.
How to Grow Aloe Plants: ...
Once the runners have been removed from the mother plant, you can allow the mother plant to flower and grow strawberries. Do not use the mother plant to propagate again though.
Redolent of anise or licorice, chervil's lacy tufts pop up here and there in our garden, as shiny black seeds drop from mother plants. Such a nice plant, with its soft, feathery, fragrant, white lace-cap flowers: it's tempting to let them all grow.
My lenten roses produce hundreds of seedlings around the mother plants. I would like to let the area fill in with plants, but it appears that they are
Permalink -- click for full blog post "What to do with seedlings" ...
-- or underground (as in mint). The runner produces an identical plant to the mother plant.
Definition as written by flowox:
A wiry, thick shoot about the soil line; can be rooted to produce new plants
Add a definition to this term ...
Clone A line of plants propagated from a single mother plant, identical to each other and to the parent.
Club root A fungal disease causing swollen roots.
These can be pegged down, usually in June or July, while attached to the mother plant. Eventually, they will form a separate plant.
Don't allow more than five runners to develop from each plant.
TISSUE CULTURE: A very sterile practice of propagating plants from the mother plant.
TOP-DRESSING: A process that means to apply on the top surface of the soil.
A method of propagating a plant where the stem is pegged down to the soil, still attached to the mother plant, to make it form roots and create a new plant once severed from the mother.
leafmould ...
It usually grows in colonies, as it suckers and develops in all directions from the mother plant, and prefers full sun but will tolerate partial shade. Smooth sumac tolertes drought and its low water needs make it a good xeriscape plant.
Layering is the easiest. You won't need to do this with the biennials as they'll be suckering like mad. Just move any suckers that are more than 6 inches from the mother plant.
daughter plants. Vegetative progeny of strawberry plants; plants that develop along the runners produced by another strawberry plant called the mother plant.
Layering- The rooting of an undetached branch, laying on or partially buried in the soil, which is capable of independent growth after separation from the mother plant.
After harvesting the fruit you may notice new shoots left on the plant. These can be removed and planted in the same method as the original mother plant.
Silver vase plant sends up a large cluster of long-lasting pink bracts that bear short-lived purple flowers. After the bracts fade, new offshoots, called pups, develop at the base of the mother plant.
The runners should be pulled up and removed completely, right back to the mother plant to keep it under control. Cutting the shoots off above the ground will only encourage more vigorous underground growth.
will tack down the runner either in a small cup, pot, or in a bare spot until strong roots are formed then cut from parent plant. The second method may help produce a healthier daughter plant more quickly but can take energy from the mother plant.
Spider plants reproduce like bunnies when they are given the right conditions to grow in and when you know how to transfer the "Ëœbabies' from the mother plants, you will be able to get many individual plants from one.
 See also: Plant, Soil, Flower, Grow, Growing
|
