Your pineapple tops are planted and doing well, now you need to know how tolook after and multiply your pineapples. Learn how to propagate using slips and suckers and find pineapple growing tips and strategies. Pineapples And Permaculture Ideas, tips and tricks for growingpineapples in a perma...
Growers must select the best and graft their branches onto new trees to propagate each distinct fruit. Farmers have been doing this since we first domesticated the apple some 2,000 years ago. Here's how we developed some of the varieties.Amal Ahmed...
How do you propagate Mayapples? Mayapple can be propagated either byroot division or by planting the seeds collected from the fruit. But seeds can take four to five years to grow to maturity, so root division is the more common and preferred method. Is Mayapple poisonous to touch? The leav...
Grafting fruit trees is a simple way to propagate fruit trees for a home orchard without spending a lot of money. These simple techniques to graft trees can be used for both bench grafting (indoors in spring) and top working trees outdoors to change varieties or reinvigorate historical orchards...
How do you best propagate an apple variety? To achieve the same genetics as your parent tree, you’ll need to take cuttings from a ‘Granny Smith.’ Apples grow from seed in the wild and are hybrids of their two parent trees. Growing apples from seed is a fun activity, but not a re...
Many houseplant growers like to propagate cuttings in water, but this often isn’t the best practice because the water can be depleted of oxygen (causing hypoxia and rot) or become spoiled or soured (and cause infections). Most horticulturalists will recommend propagation in a light media like...
Most strawberries propagate themselves by runners; the mother plant sends out runners soon after producing fruit. Runners tip root about a foot away from the mother plant. Transplant rooted runners to start new plants If a plant makes few runners; you can divide the crown with a sharp knife ...
How to propagate a chamomile lawn How to collect and store chamomile flowers for tea FAQ about growing a chamomile lawn What is chamomile? Most of us have had chamomile tea at least once in our lives. If you’ve drunk this sweet tea but don’t know much about the plant itself, chamomil...
Take cuttings in early spring to propagate new plants. Early spring, from March to May, is the best time to take cuttings from manzanitabecause the terminal shoots are just emerging with new growth. This is a form of vegetative propagation that essentially clones the original plant by cutting ...
There are many ways to make money with an orchard, but no matter what, your business will revolve around specific food products. Let’s use apples as an example. Depending on the climate in your area and your local market, there are dozens of varieties you can choose from. Once you choo...