ABSTRACT
Vegetative propagation of plants by cuttings is the most commonly used method of propagation for herbaceous and woody landscape plants in many parts of the United States and around the world. A cutting can be described as a detached plant part that, when placed in a suitable environment, will regenerate its missing vegetative parts. These parts may be roots, shoots, or both. The three major advantages of propagation by cuttings are the following: (1) cuttings provide a more successful vegetative method of propagation compared to budding or grafting, (2) the cuttings will have the same genetics as the parent plant, and (3) a number of cuttings may be taken from one stock plant. Since many of our important fruit and landscape species are clonal (same genetic makeup as the parent), cuttings are an important method for propagating such taxa.
