Mukti is about to start landscaping work on a large scale. Lakhs of flower saplings are needed to carry out beautification work on a large scale. To meet the target, seedling production has started in Mukti Nursery through the steam cutting method.
Seedlings of Rose Periwinkle (Nayantara) and Lantana are being produced in the nursery as their blossoming season is approaching soon. As these plants love the heat, planting them at the hottest time of the growing season will set them up for the future.
Stem cutting is a vegetative way of plant propagation. This quickest and simplest way of cloning a plant is the cheapest and the most convenient method. In the stem cutting method, new plants maintain the characteristics of the mother plant without showing any variations. In stem cutting, a healthy vegetative (non-flowering) shoot of a mother plant is cut off, and it is encouraged to form roots. Then the shoot is placed in a rooting medium. Once the roots are established, the cutting can be treated as a separate plant and can grow in the desired place.
All these seedlings will be planted in Mukti Gram after they become mature enough to plant for hedge work.