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27Sep2006
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The Arizona Master Gardener Manual, Arizona Cooperative Extension
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Propagation
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Plant Propagation – Asexual Propagation (Part Two)

Grafting Grafting and budding are methods of asexual plant propagation that join plant parts so they will grow as one plant. These techniques are used to propagate cultivars that will not root well as cuttings or whose own root systems are inadequate. One or more new cultivars can be added to existing fruit and nut trees by grafting or budding. The portion of the cultivar that is to be

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27Sep2006
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The Arizona Master Gardener Manual, Arizona Cooperative Extension
Category
Propagation
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Plant Propagation – Asexual Propagation

Asexual propagation, as mentioned earlier, is the best way to maintain some species, particularly an individual that best represents that species. Clones are groups of plants that are identical to their one parent and that can only be propagated asexually. The Bartlett pear (1770) and the Delicious apple (1870) are two examples of clones that have been asexually propagated for many years. The

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