Trying to grow new plants from the cuttings of your existing plants? Break out the rooting hormone. Rooting hormone is usually a substance that you apply to plant cuttings. This hormone speeds the ...

Expand your summer berry patch for free. Discover the step-by-step method to easily multiply your favorite raspberry plant ...

July is a great time to take cuttings from these wonderful plants and get them rooting well before the fall. Expand your ...

Take a look at new shoots growing on a favorite shrub or vine and you’ll see that the bases of these shoots may be beginning to toughen up, their once soft, green outer layer turning brown and woody.

Propagating new plants by taking cuttings from your current favorites is always a fun endeavor — until they fail to root. So, to avoid such torment, some gardeners aid their cuttings with rooting ...

At the awkward stage of development we call puberty, our bodies produce hormones that trigger and enhance our development into adults. The same thing happens with plants, though on a different ...

The variability among woody plants in their responses to asexual propagation techniques poses challenges and severe limits for commercial production. While some species readily root from stem cuttings ...

The secret to multiplying your garden without spending a penny ...

Many plants can easily be regenerated and multiplied using cuttings. Crucial is that the cutting can initiate the formation of roots, a process called adventitious rooting. Sanaria Abbas Jaafer ...

It's easy and it's free. It's the best way to stretch your gardening budget. The easiest method is to root cuttings in jars of water. This works for coleus, bloodleaf, cuphea, plectranthus and sweet ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Roses are one of the most popular of all flowers. Their beauty and fragrance has long been sought after by gardeners as well as non-gardeners. Rooting stem cuttings from hardy roses can be an easy way ...