Re: CULT: Propagation by Partition of Rhizome--for Sharon
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Propagation by Partition of Rhizome--for Sharon
- From: "* C* <j*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 23:44:13 -0600 (MDT)
>"For commercial propagation on a larger scale, the mature rhizomes >are
cut into half-inch sections and placed in coldframes with sand, >where
they develop advantitious buds...............
With trees potential branch buds are inhibited (hormonally?) in some
way, so that a main leader develops. If this is cut, new branches
develop. In the same way, shrubs and smaller plants put out more
branches, if trimmed back. I imagine a similar process occurs in irises
and may have something to do with why some rz's produce more increase
than others. If so, I wonder if there is a finite number of advantitious
buds which can develop and would that be 1 bud per leaf formed, as new
increase seems to correspond to leaf growth.
Any ideas anyone?
Jan Clark
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