Plants with variegated colored patterns are rare, beautiful gems for any plant collection. How to induce variegation in your plants? The best way to induce variegation in plants is to propagate a genetically variegated plant or the variegated parts of a plant with mutated plant cells that lack the green pigment. Inducing changes artificially by …
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If you have ever propagated plant cuttings in water, you must have noticed that they easily die soon after they are transferred to the soil or vice versa. How to convert cuttings from water to soil without killing them? The best way to help a plant or cuttings replace their water roots with soil roots …
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If you want an easy and convenient way to grow flowers to attract pollinators to your garden or to simply start a pretty wildflower patch in your yard, you need to make seed bombs. Here are the 11 most commonly asked questions about how to plant them. 1. What are seed bombs? Also known as …
If you plant seeds and they still do not germinate after waiting for weeks, chances are the seeds could just be dormant. How can you make dormant seeds germinate? To break seed dormancy, you can physically crack open the hard outer seed coat using a sharp tool, soak them in strong acids (or vinegar for …
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For those who save seeds, you may have been told to wait for the fruit to turn completely ripe on the plant before picking it and harvesting its seeds. Well, that is a myth. You can harvest fruits before they look completely ripe because seeds mature before the fruit matures by color. For tomatoes, fruits …
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Air layering is probably the only way to clone a Bonsai or your favorite fruit tree that is not true to seed. But getting it done right can take some skills. Most air layering attempts fail because of improper ring barking or girdling, inappropriate temperature, wrong or insufficient growing medium, the use of a clear …
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We all enjoy saving the seeds of our favorite plant or crop. But it is very easy to end up storing too many seeds and not using them in time before they expire. How long do seeds last? The longevity of seeds depends on the seed quality, the storage method, and mostly the plant itself. …
It is fun to save seeds from our favorite plants and fruits. But you can only do so with certain plants, especially fruit trees, that are “true to type” (ie. producing the same fruits as the parents). The fruit trees that are “true to type”, or will grow somewhat approximately identical to their parents, are …
Many people are turning to peat pots and peat pellets as natural alternatives to plastic pots and trays for starting seeds and propagating seedlings. They are designed to reduce root shock during transplant because the seedlings can be buried together with the biodegradable pots directly in the ground. But do peat pots and peat pellets …
Some people want to apply keiki paste on a rootless keiki to make it grow roots, while others want to use rooting hormone to propagate shrub cuttings. Keiki paste is often confused with rooting hormone. Keiki paste contains the plant hormone cytokinin and is used to stimulate shoot growth on stems or shrub cuttings, while …
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