Trying to grow new plants from the cuttings of your existing plants? Break out the rooting hormone. Rooting hormone is usually a substance that you apply to plant cuttings. This hormone speeds the ...

Plant roots can grow without limit. To do so, they need to balance the production of new cells via cell division and elongation. Plant hormones known as brassinosteroids play a key role in this ...

Many plants can easily be regenerated and multiplied using cuttings. Crucial is that the cutting can initiate the formation of roots, a process called adventitious rooting. Sanaria Abbas Jaafer ...

Generally speaking, gardening is a pursuit that requires patience. Though a garden can go from pitiful to bountiful in a few months, most of the magic doesn't happen overnight. That said, there are a ...

My houseplant collection is never quite complete and I'm always looking for ways to get my hands on new plants. One of my ...

Plant roots provide the crops we eat with water, nutrients and anchorage. Understanding how roots grow and how hormones control that growth is crucial to improving crop yields, which will be necessary ...

If you want beautiful, full, diverse planters without the hefty price tag, you may consider propagating your plants—growing new plants from clippings of existing plants. While it's a fairly simple ...