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If nursery growers were physicians, the finished-product grower would be a general practitioner. The propagator would be the surgeon.

Plant propagation is an undertaking. But for skilled propagators, it’s often their passion. Coaxing seeds to germinate, cuttings to root and grafts to bud are true art forms. Multiplying baby plants on a large scale requires almost the same sanitation as an operating room. Fungal problems at these early stages of growth will doom a crop.

But cleanliness isn’t the only task facing propagators.

Click on a page below to download each article's PDF file and find out more about propagation!

 
Page 1
   Propagation requires
   a surgeon’s precision


 



 
Pages 2-3
   Anatomy of
   propagation


 



 

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