UK: AHDB seminar on softwood propagation of ornamentals

Although there are several UK specialist plant propagators, and a number of production businesses take propagation material from their own stock plants or crops, the production of cutting material from stock plants is now an international trade with material being supplied from as far away as Africa and South America.

The successful and uniform rooting of bought-in or self-produced softwood cutting material is important for a wide range of crops including nursery stock, herbaceous plants, alpine plants, bedding and patio plants and pot plants. The selection of material, its transportation and preparation, the rooting and weaning environments provided and subsequent pest and disease control will all impact on the rooting percentage achieved and the quality of the rooted young plant.

This seminar focuses on these and other aspects which can impact rooting percentage and plant quality and provides information about optimising the various processes involved.

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