The most common ways of plant propagation are to grow them by seed or reproduce them by cutting. Cutting is a vegetative plant reproduction technique that consists of separating a piece of the stem or root from the source plant and then encouraging it to grow its own roots and develop as a new independent copy.
In this type of plant reproduction Laterlite Agri Expanded Clay of fine granulometry (granular size 2/3 or crushed size 0/4) is widely used in the substrate either on its own or as part of a mix (depending on the plant to be reproduced) giving many advantages that include:
- excellent drainage
- excellent moisture reserve over time
- excellent root aeration and oxygenation
- complete dimensional stability (does not compact and will not separate from the rootlets over time)
- mechanical support for seedlings
- negligible salinity
- freedom from pathogens, insects, or the seeds of other plants
- easy to wash and sterilise for reuse
- standardised properties
- easy to source
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