Propagation Courses

One way to produce vigorous, fruitful plants is through genetic modification. The other extreme is to find vigorous, fruitful plants and produce more of them through scientific propagation. Plants reproduce quite effectively, some more than others (think weeds). But under some circumstances, plants â€" particularly native plants â€" face changes in habitat, competition from non-native species, and different environments due to human development or climate change. Such plants become endangered and need help.

Careful propagation of endangered species can bring them back from the brink of extinction, and go a long way towards remediating whole ecosystems. Plant breeders also propagation methods to speed up the rate of reproduction of new or endangered species. If the tulip growers in Holland waited for each bulb to produce babies naturally, their industry would grind to a halt. But by scaling, the method which can turn a single bulb into anything up to a hundred baby bulbs, they are able to produce enormous quantitiesof new bulbs each year to satisfy the worldwide demand.

Courses Direct is here to help give you the knowledge you need for a career in plant propagation, whether you are grafting fruit trees to expand an orchard, replicating succulents for the house plant market, or saving native species from extinction. Cuttings, layering, tissue culture, grafting are all methods that can produce new, healthy plants to ensure the survival of endangered native plants or new species with exciting potential.