EFFECT OF STOCK PLANT PROPAGATION METHOD ON GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FICUS BENJAMINA ‘EXOTICA’ CUTTINGS

Better uniform growth and development of pot plants might be obtained by improving the uniformity of the starting material.
Therefore, influence of the stock plant propagation method, age of micropropagated stock plants and correlations between cutting characteristics and final plant height were investigated in Ficus benjamina ‘Exotica’. Plants grown from rooted cuttings taken from micropropagated stock plants were shorter but the number of lateral shoots and branched lateral shoots was higher, compared with plants grown from cuttings taken from traditionally-propagated stock plants.
The external quality was judged better.
Plants grown from cuttings taken from older, micropropagated stock plants, were taller and the number of lateral shoots was lower compared with plants grown from cuttings taken from young, micropropagated stock plants.
Shoot length of the rooted cuttings at the start of the second experiment was correlated with plant height after sixteen weeks of culture.

II International Symposium on Propagation of Ornamental Plants

A. Kromwijk, N. van Mourik

micropropagation, plant height, branching, stock plant age, cutting length

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1992.314.36