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    This document describes an exercise on asexual propagation of horticultural crops through layering. The objective is to learn how to propagate plants through layering and develop skills in asexual propagation. The methodology involves preparing materials, selecting healthy branches, removing bark, wrapping branches in rooting medium, and allowing roots to form before severing the new plant. The critical stage is when severing the new plant, as roots may not be sufficiently developed. Using root promoting hormones increases rooting success and quality compared to not using hormones. In experiments with lemonsito marcots, treatments with hormones resulted in 100% rooting within 25 days and produced plants with many green leaves and dense roots, while treatments without hormones rooted more slowly with

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    This document describes an exercise on asexual propagation of horticultural crops through layering. The objective is to learn how to propagate plants through layering and develop skills in asexual propagation. The methodology involves preparing materials, selecting healthy branches, removing bark, wrapping branches in rooting medium, and allowing roots to form before severing the new plant. The critical stage is when severing the new plant, as roots may not be sufficiently developed. Using root promoting hormones increases rooting success and quality compared to not using hormones. In experiments with lemonsito marcots, treatments with hormones resulted in 100% rooting within 25 days and produced plants with many green leaves and dense roots, while treatments without hormones rooted more slowly with

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    This document describes an exercise on asexual propagation of horticultural crops through layering. The objective is to learn how to propagate plants through layering and develop skills in asexual propagation. The methodology involves preparing materials, selecting healthy branches, removing bark, wrapping branches in rooting medium, and allowing roots to form before severing the new plant. The critical stage is when severing the new plant, as roots may not be sufficiently developed. Using root promoting hormones increases rooting success and quality compared to not using hormones. In experiments with lemonsito marcots, treatments with hormones resulted in 100% rooting within 25 days and produced plants with many green leaves and dense roots, while treatments without hormones rooted more slowly with

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    Exercise No.3

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    Jessa Silvano Argallon
    This document describes an exercise on asexual propagation of horticultural crops through layering. The objective is to learn how to propagate plants through layering and develop skills in asexual propagation. The methodology involves preparing materials, selecting healthy branches, removing bark, wrapping branches in rooting medium, and allowing roots to form before severing the new plant. The critical stage is when severing the new plant, as roots may not be sufficiently developed. Using root promoting hormones increases rooting success and quality compared to not using hormones. In experiments with lemonsito marcots, treatments with hormones resulted in 100% rooting within 25 days and produced plants with many green leaves and dense roots, while treatments without hormones rooted more slowly with

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    Name: Jessa S.

    Argallon Schedule: T (1:00-4:00)

    Exercise No.3
    Asexual Propagation of Horticultural Crops by Layering

    Introduction
    Asexual propagation is also known as vegetative propagation. This type of
    propagation is where seed is not needed, but instead a portion of the vegetation is used
    for new growth. Asexual propagation can be done in a variety of ways. The major
    methods of asexual propagation are cuttings, layering, division, budding and grafting.
    Layering is propagation by means of allowing the plants stolons or runners to root
    themselves and grow into their own plants. Common plants that display this type of
    propagation are the vines and spider plants. Air-layering is also a common type of
    layering. This graft is done on a branch. The branch is cut open then the opening is
    surrounded by a soil medium then all this is wrapped with plastic. Once this is complete,
    roots should begin to form from the opening after a few weeks. After roots are mature
    enough, the branch is severed from the parent plant and place in soil to grow on its own.
    Objective
    • To learn how to propagate horticultural crops
    • To develop some skills in asexual propagation in layering horticultural crops
    Materials
    ✓ Sharp knife
    ✓ Rooting medium
    ✓ Plastic wrapper
    ✓ Tying material (string)
    ✓ Lemonsito tree
    Methodology
    Students were able to:
    1. Prepared the materials needed
    2. Selected a branch/stem about the size of an ordinary lead pencil or smaller depending
    on the crop species that is healthy and as much as possible without flowers/fruits. At
    approximately 1 foot from the tip of the shoot, make a parallel cut on the bark about 1/2
    to 1 inch or approximately equal to the circumference of the stem/ branch. Removed bark
    and scraped the exposed surface of the stem to ensure complete removal of the cambium
    layer in order to prevent regrowth of bark before root formation takes place.
    3. Position the wrapping material (plastic sheet) by folding it around the stem enclosing
    the wound/cut. Tie securely using a string or plastic straw the lower end of the wrapper
    at about 3 cm below the lower cut.
    4. With the wrapper now forming a receptacle, I place or fill it with about 2 handfuls of the
    rooting medium and then securely tie the upper end of the wrapper. The medium should
    be sufficiently moist but not too wet. When using garden soil, the moisture is enough if
    the imprint of the finger is left and little cracks is observed but does not break (too dry)
    nor turn muddy (too wet) when squeezed firmly in the hand.
    5. When sufficient roots are formed and are already mature (in most cases yellowish in
    color), I cut the marcot just below the ball of the rooting medium that holds the roots.
    6. After cutting the marcotted plant, I removed the wrapper slowly as well as some of the
    leaves and place in a pot or any suitable container with good potting medium and having
    enough size to provide sufficient room for roots to develop further.
    2nd attempt
    Guide Questions:
    1. What are the general uses and advantages of asexual propagation?
    ➢ The general uses of asexual propagation are to preserve the genetic
    characteristics of a particular plant; to propagate plants that do not produce
    viable seeds (bananas, pineapple, seedless grape, etc.); to propagate plants
    that produce seed that is difficult to germinate or has a very short storage life
    (cotoneaster, willow); and to bypass the juvenile stage of plant growth when
    the plants will not flower and bare fruit (apple). Advantages of asexual
    propagation include: It may be easier and faster than sexual propagation for some
    species. It may be the only way to perpetuate particular cultivars. It maintains the
    juvenile or adult characteristics of certain cultivars.
    2. What are the other methods of layering aside from air layering? Describe each
    method.
    ➢ Other methods of layering aside from air layering are simple layering, tip
    layering, compound layering and mound layering. Simple layering can be
    accomplished by bending a low growing, flexible stem to the ground. Tip
    layering is quite similar to simple layering, the tip grows downward first, then
    bends sharply and grows upward and roots form at the bend. Compound
    (serpentine) layering is similar to simple layering, but several layers can result
    from a single stem, Bend the stem to the rooting medium as for simple layering,
    but alternately cover and expose sections of the stem. Mound (stool) layering is
    useful with heavy-stemmed, closely branched shrubs and rootstocks of tree
    fruits.
    3. What particular stage of the marcotting operation that is considered most critical?
    ➢ Many plants are lost in the final stage of the process because the root system
    is not sufficiently developed to sustain the top portion of the new plant.
    4. Discuss the effectiveness of root promoting substances/hormones.
    ➢ Rooting hormone will increase the chance of successful plant rooting in most
    cases. When rooting hormones are used, the root will generally develop
    quickly and be of higher quality than when plant-rooting hormones are not
    used.
    Table 1. Final rooting percentage of lemonsito marcots or any plants

    Treatments Number of Days to 50% No. of Percentage


    marcots Rooting Rooted Rooting
    marcots
    T1-with 1 25 2 100%
    root
    promoting
    hormone
    T2- without 1 28 3 100%
    root
    promoting
    hormone

    Table . Quality of the rooted marcots


    Treatments Sample No. Color of leaves Rooting Density
    With root 1 Green +++
    promoting
    hormone or
    substance
    Without root 1 Green *
    promoting
    hormone or
    substance

    Rooting density:
    +++ -many roots
    + + - few roots
    + - very few
    * - none

    References
    https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/plant-propagation-by-layering-instructions-for-the-home-
    gardener
    https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/propagation/cuttings/root-
    stimulating-hormone.htm
    https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/earthkind/landscape/air-layering/

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