Farmers have used vegetative propagation for centuries in growing tropical.

With a fresh-cut base, dip the bottom 5 – 10 mm of the cutting in rooting auxin (A 40) in order.

Caribbean and Americas.

Most tree species root easily from leafy cuttings taken from young seedlings, but not when these are taken chainsaw cuts for felling trees the crowns of saplings or mature trees; Branches unsuitable for propagation.

In many tropical trees, the branches have a different structure from the main stems, and after rooting they give plants which may not show a normal growth habit. rooting cuttings from the best available seedlings for a start; selecting sizeable trees showing desirable features, felling them and using the coppice shoots as clonal stockplants (A 12, A 21); applying early tests to seedlings, and choosing the better ones (A 13).

By rooting them in a poly-propagator, or under automatic mist or ‘fogging’; By keeping them moist with a hand-sprayer while preparing (A 43) and setting them (A 44), and whenever the propagator lid is open; By potting up and weaning rooted cuttings carefully (A 53–54); By checking the conditions regularly (A 50).

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Jan 01, Manual 1 is concerned with rooting cuttings in order to multiply trees vegetatively. Farmers have used vegetative propagation for centuries in growing tropical food crops. It is a standard technique for producing improved rubber trees, and is also now used for tea, coffee, oil-palm and other crops.