Republic of the Philippines

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Province of Laguna
College of Agriculture
Siniloan Campus

CPT 103-Plant Propagation

Nursery Management
ESPERANZA O. CAÑA, LPT.
Course Instructor
 Pretest
Direction: Determine if the following statement is true or false. Then, choose the
word that makes the statement false.

1. There are four branches of agriculture.

2. Horticulture is a branch of agriculture that is
concern on rearing farm animals such as
cattle, duck and swine.
3. Plant propagation means multiplication of
plants with the aim to achieve increase in
number and preserve the non-essential
characteristics of the mother plant.
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 Pretest
Direction: Determine if the following statement is true or false. Then, choose the
word that makes the statement false.

4. A nursery is an unmanaged site, designed to

produce seedlings grown under favorable
conditions until they are ready for planting.
5. The three key elements of nursery
management are the place, the money, and
the person behind.
6. Nursery Management provide unfavourable
growth conditions to plants.
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 Pretest
Direction: Determine if the following statement is true or false. Then, choose the
word that makes the statement false.

7. Nurseries generate employment.

8. Plant Propagation improves characteristic
and quality of the plant.
9. Mother stocks must not be genetically pure.
10. A nursery can occupy a field, garden,
greenhouse, or other form of growing space.

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 Topic Outline
◍ Scope and Importance of Plant Propagation and
Nursery Management
◍ Plant Propagation Nurseries
◍ Role of Nurseries in Horticulture Development

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 Lesson Objective
At the end of the lesson 95% of the students should be able
to:
◍ Identify and discuss the definition of plant
propagation, nurseries, and the different type of plant
propagation nurseries.
◍ List down the roles of nurseries in horticulture
development; and
◍ Evaluate the relevance of plant propagation and
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 What is
agriculture?
(Tell me your own understanding of
what agriculture is to you.)

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 AGRICULTURE
Is the art and science or practice of
farming, including cultivation of the soil for
the growing of crops and the rearing of
animals to provide food, wool, and other
products.

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Agriculture provides us with …

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 5 branches of Agriculture

Horticulture Agricultural Engineering

Animal Science

Agricultural Economics

Agronomy
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 Roles of Agriculture
1. Supply food for people and feed for animal.
2. Source of income.
3. Create employment opportunities.
4. Foreign currency generation.
5. Source of raw materials
6. Conserving natural resources.

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The four sub-sectors of Agriculture in
the Philippines
FARMING FISHERIES

LIVESTOCK FORESTRY
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What is plant
Propagation?
(Tell me your prior knowledge.)

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Plant Propagation and Nursery
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Plant Propagation
 means multiplication of plants
with the aim to achieve increase
in number and preserve the
essential characteristics of the
mother plant.

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Importance of Plant Propagation
 It multiplies the different species in large
number.
 It protects the plant species which are
endangered.
 It improves the characteristics and quality
of the plants.
 It produces quality and healthy plants on
commercial base.
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 Two Methods of Plant
Propagation

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Sexual Propagation
 Refers to multiplication of
plants by seeds.
 It involves careful
management of germination
conditions and facilities and
knowledge of the
requirements of individual
kind of seeds.

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Sexual Propagation
 Seeds are formed after successful
pollination and fertilization by the union of
male and female gametes.

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Advantages of Sexual Propagation
1. It is simple and easy.
2. Plants are long lived, productive and tolerate
adverse soil and climatic conditions, and disease.
3. Plants that cannot be asexually propagated are
propagated by this method. E.g. Papaya, Marigold,
Tomato, Coconut.
4. Hybrid seeds are developed by this method.
5. Root stocks for asexual propagation produced by
this method.
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Advantages of Sexual Propagation
6. New varieties of crops are developed.
7. Transmission of viruses can be prevented.
8. Seed can be transported and stored for longer time
for propagation

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Disadvantages of Sexual Propagation
1. Characteristics of seedling propagated by this
method are not genetically true to type that of their
mother plant.
2. Plants propagated by this method requires long
period for fruiting.
3. Plants grow very high, so they are difficult for
intercultural practices like spraying, harvesting, etc.

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Disadvantages of Sexual Propagation
4. Seeds of many fruits needs to be sown immediately
after extraction from the fruits as they lose their
viability very soon e.g. cashew nut, jamun, jackfruit,
citrus, mango and papaya.
5. The plants which have no seeds cannot be
propagated by this method. E.g. Banana, Jasmine,
Rose, etc.

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Asexual Propagation
 Propagation of plants using vegetative parts such
as leaves, stems and roots.
 Plants may be taken from single mother plant or
other plants.
 The methods to propagate plant includes cuttings,
layering, grafting, budding and micro-propagation.

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Advantages of Asexual Propagation
1. Propagated plants are true to type, uniform in growth, and
produce high yield and quality fruits.
2. Fruit trees bear fruit earlier and have assured genetic
configurations.
3. Asexually propagated plants produced are of manageable
size and have uniform fruits making harvesting easy.
4. Some diseases can be avoided in susceptible varieties by
grafting them on a resistant rootstock e.g. use of Rangpur
lime as rootstock for budding Mandarin orange to avoid
gummosis disease
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Advantages of Asexual Propagation
5. Repairing of damaged portion of plants and healing of the
wounds of plants caused by rodents is possible through
grafting or buttressing.
6. Inferior quality of crown of the existing plants can be
improved.
7. It is possible to grow multiple varieties on the same plant.
8. Number of plant per hectare is more due to its small
canopy and restricted growth.
9. Vegetative propagation helps in rapid multiplication with
modern techniques like tissue culture and other micro
propagation techniques.
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Disadvantages of Asexual Propagation
1. Plants propagated by this method are not hardy and fall easy
prey to adverse conditions of soil, climate, diseases, pests, etc.
2. It is difficult and more expensive method of propagation in
some plants like papaya, coconut, etc.
3. Plants are generally not so vigorous and long lived as seedling
plants and they require special skill for propagation.
4. Hybridization in these plants is not possible because there is no
variation in the progeny; these methods are not suitable for
development of a new variety

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Nursery Management
 What is a nursery?
 A nursery is a managed
site, designed to produce
seedlings grown under
favorable conditions until
they are ready for planting.

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What is a nursery?
 A plant nursery is a place
where any kinds of plants
are grown for the sake of
being moved or
transplanted later.
 It can occupy a field,
garden, greenhouse, or
other form of growing
space.
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Specific Importance of Plant Nursery
1. Seedlings and grafts are produced in nursery and the fruit
orchards and ornamental gardens can be established with
minimum care, cost and maintenance.
2. The nursery planting materials are available at the
beginning of the planting season. This saves time, money
and efforts of the farmers to raise seedlings.
3. There is a wide scope for fruit orchards, ornamental,
vegetable, and landscape gardens at public gardens,
highways and co operative housing societies.

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Specific Importance of Plant Nursery
4. It assures the production of genetically improved quality
planting material.
5. It provides employment opportunities for technical,
skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled labor.
6. They are an important source supplying the seedlings for
meeting the fruit, pulp and paper, fuel wood, timber and
other demands of the industries

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Three Key Elements of Nursery
Management
1. The Place
2. The Plant
3. The person behind

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Nursery Management
The main phases of nursery management are:
 Planning – demand for planting material, provision of
mother blocks, requirement of land area, water supply,
working tools, growing structures and input availability.
 Implementation – land treatment, protection against biotic
interference and soil erosion, proper layout, input supply,
etc.
 Monitoring and Evaluation – physical presence, rapid
response, critical analysis, incentive to workers, etc.

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Advantages of Nursery Management
1. It is possible to provide favourable growth
conditions i.e. germination as well as growth
2. Better care of younger plants as it is easy to look
after nursery in small area against pathogenic
infection pest and weed.
3. Crop grown by nursery raising is quite early and
fetch higher price in the market. So
economically more profitable.

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Advantages of Nursery Management
4. There is saving of land and labor as main field
will be occupied by the crop for lesser duration.
Hence intensive crop rotation can be followed.
5. More time is available for the preparation of
main field because nursery is grown separately.
6. As vegetable seeds are very expensive,
particularly hybrids, seed cost can be
economized by sowing them in the nursery.

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Types of Plant Propagation Nurseries
According to Type of Plants Grown
1. Fruit Plant Nurseries
2. Vegetable Nurseries
3. Ornamental Plant Nurseries
4. Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Nurseries
5. Forest Plant Nursery
6. Hi-Tech Nurseries

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According to the Type of Sale
1. Retail Nurseries – plants for sale to the general
public.
2. Wholesale Nurseries – grow plants in bulk for
the purpose of selling to large clients.
3. Private Nurseries – grows plants exclusively for
a single client.
4. Mail Order – Privately owned, retail and
wholesale businesses may all be involved in
mail order businesses.
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Role of Nurseries in Horticulture
Development
1. Production of Genetically Pure Nursery
Stock
2. Export of Nursery Stock
3. Employment Generation
4. Role of Nurseries in Dry Land Horticulture.

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 Thank You.
Any Question?

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printers, Jodhpur
• Thorat S. et al., 2012, Horticulture Nursery Management Yashwantrao Chavan
Maharashtra Open University, Nashik
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