Propagation & Cloning
Mother-Plant Management & Propagation Consistency
Source plants used repeatedly for cuttings should be managed as tracked biological stock. Their health, age, architecture, nutrition, pest status, testing history, and cutting demand can affect propagation consistency.
Key concepts
- Mother plants are production sources, not just large vegetative plants
- Repeated cutting changes canopy architecture and source-sink relationships
- Systemic pathogens can spread through every cutting taken from infected stock
- Source-plant replacement should preserve identity and testing history
What to measure or observe
- Track source plant ID and age
- Record cutting counts by date
- Maintain health and testing records
- Compare rooting outcomes by source plant
Common mistakes
- Keeping source plants indefinitely without health review
- Ignoring declining rooting performance by source
- Mixing replacement plants without lineage records
- Taking cuttings immediately after severe stress
Visuals this lesson still needs
- Mother-stock record map
- Cutting-demand timeline
- Source-to-clone traceability tree
- Mother replacement workflow