Is propagating blueberries and raspberries from cuttings really as hard as everyone makes it seem?
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its very easy some amount of sand & compost (made from animal waste) thoroghly spoiled. mix them in equal quantity and add some water in it to keep it wet. now just deep a part of cutting in it where you want roots to come. also a solution come here in india's market if this not work.
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Hi!  Have never planted flowers before until this spring.  I have had excellent luck so far.  What I did was I bought these little Jiffy starter disks at the garden section at Wal-Mart.  They come in a tray, and I bought the smallest ones they had.  You fill them with water and they grow into little pods of soil.  I planted my flower seeds (I planted pansies and petunias) 1/8 inch into the center of the pod, and put the cover on for a few days.  NOTE:  I put more than one seed in each pod...but my advice is to only put one seed in each.  I have sprouts growing all over at the moment!  When they sprouted I put them under plain old flourescent lights, and now after 2 weeks I need to transplant them into a hanging basket, because they have lots of roots and are thriving.  Good luck, hope this is helpful!!
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There are many ways plants can be propagated grafting layering, cuttings, micropropagation, division etc if you wan't know more just ask
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Try illuminating a growing plant (¿beans?) with different wavelengths (a simple set of filters -yellow, red and blue- will do) in black boxes. \nMeasure the length of the shoots under different light colors with time. \nWhat you should see: Blue should give the highest growth rate, due to the fact that the maximum absorption of the plants pigments falls on those wavelengths.
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lol. for real? Let's just say, if you have a pet with a hairy butt....well, you can harvest some dingleberries from that area. Good luck with your search...and please....don't eat them.  However, I've also labeled some people I've met as "dingleberries". Learn to distinguish between what's authentic and what's not! lol.
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African violets are propagated from seed or, more frequently, from cuttings.\n\nWith seeds, you can obtain a large number of new plants, but they may not resemble the parent very closely. Some amateur growers pollinate their plants themselves to produce new hybrids, while others buy their seed from specialized nurseries.\n\nPropagation from cuttings is more common. The advantage of this method is that the new plants will all be identical to the parent and will bloom more quickly.\n\nTaking leaf cuttings is a common technique, among both commercial and private growers. \n\nSelect a strong, healthy stem that is neither too young nor too old. First water the plant, and then remove a stem from the second-last row of leaves. \nCut the stem to 3 to 5 cm on the diagonal with a sharp knife. \nInsert the stem at a 45° angle into a rooting medium such as vermiculite, ensuring that the leaf does not touch the surface. You may wish to put a small stick or piece of plastic under the leaf to hold it in place. \nRootlets will form quickly if the pot is placed in a bright spot out of direct sunlight; keep it warm from underneath, the rooting medium evenly damp and the humidity in the air constant. A plastic bag or glass may be placed over the cutting, provided that it doesn’t touch the leaf. \nTiny plantlets will appear at the base of the stem in about 5 to 12 weeks. \nAs soon as the leaves reach 2 cm in diameter, separate them and pot them up separately. \nAvoid overwatering the new plants, which will rot easily. \n\nAn African violet may also be propagated by dividing the offshoots that form on the crown of an older plant.
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this depends on the plant...different plants have VERY different requirements!
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i don't believe you can extract cholorophyl from leaves without damaging the leaves
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Well, i don't know for sure either,\n\nbut i've been reading in some books that telling about an experiment by turning a Classical music and a Heavy Metal music beside a plant (the same species of plants with the same caring), it turns out that the plant with classical music was grow healthy and gave a good fruit, while the Rock plant kind of skinny and don't even gave any fruit, and die slowly.\n\nI never seen it by myself, but i think it's logical that the sound wave (wich is energy) somehow bringing some kind of information (or effecting by force) to the plant (life being) and effecting the life of the cell...\n\nI haven't really make a research on this anyway, i have another project right now...\n\nHope this help\nBless You
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what do you mean by yield? do you mean percentage success? the advantage of cuttings is always: you know what you will get (identical to the plant the cutting came from) and they will almost always mature (flower/fruit) sooner than a seedling.
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W I L D F U C H S I A\nH I M A L A Y A N B L A C K B E R R Y\nWild Fuchsia (non native) is another plant from South\nAmerica that grows well in our mild coastal climate. It will\noften bloom the whole year. The colorful purple and pink\nflowers attract hummingbirds. It is one of the parents of\nthe fuchsia plants that are commonly cultivated in hanging\nbaskets and containers.\nHimalayan Blackberry (non native) has been quite the\nworld traveler. Originally from India and Asia, it traveled\nto England and then to North America. The flowers are 5\npetaled and range from white to pinkish. If you look\nclosely, you will see its resemblance to a rose; in fact, it is a\nmember of the rose family. The delicious fruit ripens by\nAugust. The best berries are almost black and very soft.\nThe fruit is eaten fresh or in jellies, pies and cobblers. The\ntangled, thorny stems provide food and cover for birds and\nsmall mammals.\nW I L D F U C H S I A\nH I M A L A Y A N B L A C K B E R R Y\nWild Fuchsia (non native) is another plant from South\nAmerica that grows well in our mild coastal climate. It will\noften bloom the whole year. The colorful purple and pink\nflowers attract hummingbirds. It is one of the parents of\nthe fuchsia plants that are commonly cultivated in hanging\nbaskets and containers.\nHimalayan Blackberry (non native) has been quite the\nworld traveler. Originally from India and Asia, it traveled\nto England and then to North America. The flowers are 5\npetaled and range from white to pinkish. If you look\nclosely, you will see its resemblance to a rose; in fact, it is a\nmember of the rose family. The delicious fruit ripens by\nAugust. The best berries are almost black and very soft.\nThe fruit is eaten fresh or in jellies, pies and cobblers. The\ntangled, thorny stems provide food and cover for birds and\nsmall mammals.\nW I L D R H O D O D E N D R O N\nE S C A L L O N I A\nWild Rhododendron is a handsome plant that prefers\nthe shaded portions of the park. Its beautiful pale-pink to\ndeep rose flower starts blooming in May and peaks in June.\nThe Western Azalea and the wild “rhody” are in the\nRhododendron family, which is, in turn, distantly related\nto the evergreen huckleberry.\nEscallonia (non native) is a fast-growing shrub from\nSouth America, which is planted at the park to provide\nquick, beautiful, visual barriers between campsites. The\nleaves are slightly sticky to the touch and they can flower\nwith white or pink blooms. Hummingbirds are fond of the\nnectar in this plant.\nW E S T E R N A Z A L E A\nE V E R G R E E N H U C K L E B E R R Y\nWestern Azalea is a deciduous shrub commonly found\nalong our paths and trails to the beach. Soft-scented white\nflowers with pink and yellow throats dot this plant from\nApril through June. This is a favorite flower of hummingbirds\nand bumblebees! Azalea Park in Brookings is situated\nin a grove of these plants.\nEvergreen Huckleberry is a shrub that blooms in the\nspring with tiny, inconspicuous bell shaped flowers noticed\nonly by the bees. The delicious blue-black round berries are\ngenerally ripe by late August. Many people make pies and\njellies from the fruit or eat them right off the bush.\nS A L M O N B E R R Y\nP A C I F I C W A X M Y R T L E\nSalmonberry is an early (March–April) pink flowering\nshrub. The raspberry-sized fruit that ripens in May and\nJune is one of the oldest and most important food sources\nfor Native Americans. The fruit was named for the salmon\ncolor of the berry and its ripening time—when the first\nspring salmon arrive. Different bushes have different\nflavored berries. Taste around to find the ones you like.\nClosely related to blackberry.\nPacific Wax Myrtle is a tall growing shrub (20’-30’) with\ndense green foliage. Tiny black seeds are formed in fall and\nare an important food source for park birds. Winter\nchickadees and kinglets feed heavily on the seeds during\ncold wintry days. A wax coating forms on the fruit.\nTRE
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They choose do reproduce plants that way because the cuttings are true to parents characteristically. Meaning, the next generation of plants will look and produce just like the plants of the year before.
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all off spring plants will be similar to that of parent plant in all characters .even the delicate characters like taste ,colour shape of fruit ,smell are 100%similar.\n\nthis true to type nature is obtained by going for vegetative or asexual propagation methods like budding, grafting, stem cuttings, root cuttings, leaf cuttings etc.
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I would think so.  It is not that difficult to do.  The hardest part is getting started .... so ..... get started!
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Well,cuttings can be taken,but this isn't reproducing in the strictest sence.This would be refered to as cloning.Naturally,they would grow from seeds.Their seed pods are beak shaped and when they mature,the seed pods slit open and a seed with a pappas(paracute)emerges.
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The origins are somewhat obscure. It is not related to the file type of rasp. In fact, raspberries were once simply called rasps.
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Yeah, we can manupulate plant genome as per our requirement.  we can inoculate plant with  gene responsible for producing fruits for all months.....its called "gene manupulation" which makes impossible to possible.