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How to Propagate Plants from Cuttings: Amazing Ancient Technology Rediscovered

Friday, September 11, 2015 4:00
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This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook and plant propagator Jack
Alexander reproduce plants from cuttings. (See below for tools and a
shopping list.)

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Imagine a technology that could do all these amazing things for free:

  • Produce a wide assortment of products
  • Filter the air to remove impurities
  • Moderate the air temperature to an ambient level
  • Create microclimates and produce clouds and rain
  • Reduce energy use and act as an energy source
  • Provide health and therapeutic benefits
  • Provide an energy efficient source of building materials
  • Provide diversity and habitat for wildlife
  • Provide abundant amounts of fresh food
  • Help prevent run off and soil erosion
  • Help build soils
  • Act as a natural fertilizer while promoting microorganisms
  • House a multitude of insects, wildlife, and bacteria
  • Absorb potentially harmful gasses, such as sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide
  • Provide beauty and colour
  • Sustain life on earth by creating oxygen

Nature!

You might have guessed by now I am talking about Trees. It seems humanity is obsessed with developing sophisticated technologies to solve many of our problems, yet we already have some of the most highly advanced, practical and useful technologies available to us, provided by nature for FREE. One wouldn’t think so, however, as the latest report by ‘Nature’ shows humanity is depleting the world’s forests by around 10 billion trees each and every year. Almost half of the world’s trees and forests (46%) have been exploited and depleted since the start of human civilisation, most of which has occurred over the last fifty years. (1)

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Tools for How to Propagate Plants from Cuttings:
- bypass pruners
- pocket knife
- grafting knife, used to cut plant for grafting
- electric heat tray
- electric heat map
- planter misters

Shopping list for How to Propagate Plants from Cuttings:
- propagating plants
- apple seedling, used as root stock
- plastic planting tray with cover
- root-inducing hormone
- peat moss
- sand
- perlite
- rubber band, (for securing the graft union)
- paraffin wax

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