Hort I 4.02

Chris is interested in producing the mostnew plants in the shortest time period. What is the best propagation method for him to accomplish his goal?

• Budding

• Cutting

• Grafting

• Tissue Culture

Jacob learns a disadvantage of propagating using cuttings is that when cuttings are removed from the parent plant, the:

• cuttings’ absorption process stops.

• cuttings are cut off from their source of water.

• parent plant needs more light.

• parent plant needs additional fertilizer.

Victoria is careful to study the temperature, moisture, and seed viability for the plants she plans to grow. These are factors that affect:

• germination rates.

• hardwood cuttings.

• softwood cuttings.

• tree grafts.

Hannah is hardening off some tomatoes started in the greenhouse. Which is she reducing to harden off her plants?

• Fertilizer and Air

• Lime and phosphate

• Humidity and water

• Soil and fertilizer

Jamie has a tray of marigold seedlings she started from seed. She transplants the seedlings from the seedling flat to cell packs when the:

• first mature roots appear.

• first true leaves are on the plant.

• plants are two weeks old.

• seedlings are 6 inches tall.

Jenny needs to construct some beds to use for rooting azalea cuttings. How deep should the rooting media be?

• 1 Inches

• 2 Inches

• 4 Inches

• 10 Inches

Christy enjoys mound layering her prize-winning azalea. Which is true of her mound layering technique?

• The plant has to be dug and separated first.

• A trench has to be dug for each stem being propagated.

• Only one inch of bark has to be removed.

• Soil has to be heaped up around the plant.

Victor joins a new variety of pecan tree to some rootstock he has grown from seeds. Which propagation method does he use?

• grafting

• hardwood cutting

• softwood cutting

• division

Caroline is careful to use tissue culture in laboratory conditions that are aseptic. Therefore, the laboratory environment is:

• dirty

• humid

• pretty

• sterile

Uneek is making leaf cuttings. She must be certain that she cuts the leaf:

• margin

• petiole

• vein

• stomate