How Can I Propagate My Plant?

Does your plant form some kind of underground food storage organ?

Does your plant form an underground organ from fleshy leaves (bulb)?

Does your plant form an underground organ from a vertical stem (corm)?

Does your plant form an underground organ from a rhizome (tuber)?

Did your plant form a growth coming out of its root (sucker)?

Did your plant form new plants coming out of its base (offshoots)?

Does your plant forms horizontal growth that at some distance starts to form a new plant?

Does your plant forms underground horizontal growths (rhizomes)?

You can propagate your plant by dividing its bulbs and transplanting them. Most well-known bulb forming plants are lilies, snowdrops, daffodils, tulips, and alliums.

You can propagate your plant by dividing its corms and transplanting them. Most well-known corm forming plants are Gladiolus, Freesia, Tritonia, and Caladium

You can propagate your plant by dividing its tubers and transplanting them. Most well-known tuber forming plants are potato and yam.

You can propagate your plant by dividing its tuberous roots and transplanting them. Most well-known tuberous root forming plants are sweet potatoes, cassava, and dahlias.

Sucker that arises from a root is a whole plant and it can be removed and transplanted. It will grow to a full-sized plant.

Offshoots can usually be broken or cut off of mother plants and transplanted to make new plants. Place the offshoot in phosphorous rich fertilizer for a short time and transplant it into the soil.

You can propagate your plant with seeds. Most plants produce seeds after flowering. Annual plants are most proficient in seed production, but you can propagate perennials with seeds also.

You can propagate your plant by cutting off its underground growths (rhizomes) and transplanting them. Most well-known tuber forming plants are hops, asparagus, ginger, irises, lily of the valley, cannas, and sympodial orchids, etc.

You can propagate your plant by cutting off its aboveground growths (stolons) and transplanting them. Most well-known tuber forming plants are silverweeds, strawberries, hawkweeds, Zoysia japonica, creeping buttercup, etc.