HORT1 - 4.02 Plant Reproduction

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Across
  1. 2. Using a small piece of stem to reproduce plants. Uses hormones and dipping in fungicides help speed up rooting
  2. 3. Produce two seed leaves
  3. 6. Creeping above ground stem that grows horizontally and produces roots and shoots at the nodes
  4. 10. Rooting media should be this deep (inches)
  5. 14. Young plants grown from seeds
  6. 16. Percentage of seeds that sprout and begin to grow.
  7. 17. The first sets of leaves
  8. 18. A form of grafting when a bud is used instead of a scion
  9. 19. Swollen, modified stem that grows underground.
  10. 22. An enlarged, bulb-like, fleshy structure found at the base of a stem. Usually flattened and round
  11. 24. Reproduction method hat is a fast way to get many plants
  12. 25. Second set of leaves
  13. 26. For leaf cuttings, this vein must be cut in order to make roots form
  14. 28. The multiplication and reproduction of a kind or a species
Down
  1. 1. Substance that kills fungi or inhibits their growth
  2. 4. Piece of plant at the top of graft
  3. 5. produce one seed leaf
  4. 6. Separating natural structures of a plant without making a cut
  5. 7. The piece of the plant at the root or bottom of graft
  6. 8. Reproduction method that uses growing plant parts other than seeds
  7. 9. Using a small amount of plant tissue to grow in a sterile environment. Gets the most plants in a short time and is true to parent plant
  8. 11. Cutting apart rhizomes, tubers, runners, stolons, or suckers to get new plants
  9. 12. Best time of day for rooting from cutting because plants have more moisture
  10. 13. The round parts of some plants that are underground
  11. 15. Scarring a small area of the stem to produce new plants
  12. 20. Means that the vascular cambium is actively growing, and the bark can be peeled easily from the stock piece with little damage
  13. 21. Creeping underground stem, usually horizontal, that produces roots and leaves at the nodes
  14. 23. This process reduces humidity and water and make environment more like outside to reduces stress on seedlings before transplanting
  15. 27. Joining separate plant parts together so that they form a union and grow together to make one plant