process of vegetative propagation of plants is based on their high capacity for regeneration, that is, to restore a part of the whole organism.This subsidiary plants inherit all the features of the mother, including high-quality and valuable quality.
Vegetative reproduction of plants is carried out by various bodies such as specialized (tubers, bulbs, rhizomes) and specialized (leaves, stalks).
in the wild vegetative propagation of plants is widespread.Certain types of general rarely reproduce by seeds.These include bulbs, lilies of the valley, and many others.Strong underground rhizomes of couch grass make this weed is almost invulnerable.No weeding does not allow you to completely get rid of it, and the whole thing in many kidney regeneration, which is literally studded with rhizomes.From these buds the plant can recover even if remained in the soil slice long couple of centimeters.
Wild strawberry propagated stolons (mustache), which are the kind of above-ground shoots.Mustache root at the nodes and of the adventitious buds develop young plants which will soon begin an independent life.Some trees can also reproduce vegetatively.Often broken branches of willows and poplars, getting in a moist environment, take root and form a complete plant.Sometimes even cases where willow twigs stuck in the ground as a hedge, takes root and turns into a tree.And the reason for all - the vegetative propagation of plants, which sometimes manifests itself in the most amazing ways.Popular in the indoor horticulture jade tree, which is popularly known as money tree, easily propagated by leaf.Under favorable conditions, on petioles formed roots, and after them formed a new plant.And do not even have to create special conditions for this - often leaves fall to the ground and take root on their own.
Vegetative reproduction of plants widely used in the practice of crop.This is an opportunity to get more yield in a shorter time compared to the seed method.As a popular example is multiplication of potato tubers or strawberry mustache (stolons).And if you need to multiply the young specimen, flowering and fruiting of which will not come soon, the vegetative method is simply irreplaceable.It is used for a huge number of plants - annuals and herbaceous perennials, deciduous trees and shrubs, and even pine.
artificial vegetative propagation of plants is especially important in cases where you want to save the varietal characteristics of complex hybrids.There are various techniques such propagation: cuttings, dividing the bush, rooting cuttings, grafting, the use of tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, affiliated outlets, leaf cuttings.
In the indoor horticulture is most often used for the production of plants is vegetative propagation, examples of which can be seen in ordinary home windowsills.Those living in urban apartments in Jade, Saintpaulia, dieffenbachia, Pelargonium, ferns, begonias, rubber plants and many other plants, as a rule, get it vegetatively.And not surprisingly, it is much easier to put the cutting in water or planted in soil previously treated with stimulant than fumbling with the seeds, germination which often is questionable.
Vegetative reproduction - a valuable invention of nature, which is widely used in modern plant and has a number of advantages over the seed method.
