PROPAGATION: DOES IT EVER MAKE YOU WONDER?^©

Have you ever experienced or heard someone say that a certain plant is not as easy to root as it used to be? Have you ever wondered why different clones of the same species differ in their rooting characteristics? In The Plantsman, McMillan-Browse (2010) writes about plant aging and its effect on stem cuttings. I have found this short article to be very thought provoking while he discusses chronological age of a clone as playing a major role in the ease/difficulty of rooting and how to “recover regenerative capacity by manipulation of the parent plant.”