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How to Plant
When to plant,
3 types of soil,
Select good speciments
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LO 1.0 - 1.2 - Outline the principles of plant propagation
Plant propagation is the process ...,
Why create new plants,
Propagation methods range greatly...
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LO 2.0 - Outline the principles of plant propagation by division and layering
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LO 2.1 - Description and common methods used
- Simple layering, stool layering, continuous layering, tip layering, air layering, division of fibrous crowns and fleshy crowns
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LO 2.2 - Types of plant
Types of plant
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LO 2.3 - Reasons for method used
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LO 2.4 - Time of year
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LO 3.0 - Outline the principles of propagation by grafting & budding
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LO 3.1 - Describe the principles of grafting and different methods used
- Whip graft, whip and tongue, budding
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LO 3.2 - Advantages and disadvantages of grafting as a method of propagation
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LO 3.3 - Outline stock and scion compatibility
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LO 3.4 - Describe and explain the use of equipment for budding and grafting
- Knives
- Strop & sharpening stone
- polythene tape
- wax
- secateurs
- bud clips
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LO 4.0 - Describe propagation by seed
Question footnoteseeds,
Question footnoteseeds,
Question footnoteseeds
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LO 4.1 - Principles of seed sowing by describing the following
- Seed types – berry, nut, samara
- Methods of seed collection
- Methods of seed extraction and cleaning
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LO 4.2 - Differentiate between Origin and Provenance
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LO 4.3 - Describe: - Different types of dormancy - Strategies to over come dormancy
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LO 4.4 - Viability
- Define viability
- List factors affecting seed viability
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LO 4.5 - Storage
- Describe methods of cleaning and storage
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LO 5.0 - Describe the basic requirements for rooting cuttings
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LO 5.1 - Define softwood, semi-hard wood and hardwood cuttings
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LO 5.2 - Explain the differences between nodal, inter-nodal, basal, heeled, leaf cuttings, leaf-bud cuttings and root cuttings
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LO 5.3 - Outline selection and collection procedures of cutting material
- Reasons for softwood, semi-hardwood, hardwood
- Times of year
- Plant example for each type of cutting
- Collection and temporary storage of cutting material
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LO 5.4 - Outline treatment of cuttings
- Wounding - benefits
- Types of rooting hormone & treatment
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LO 5.5 - Describe Rooting media in terms of
- Requirements – open, well drained mix
- Materials – peat, perlite, vermiculite, sand, bark
- Different rooting media mixes
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LO 5.6 - Outline environment and disease prevention strategies in terms of:
- Selection of healthy material
- Treatment of equipment: cleaning & sterilisation of seed trays, knives, secateurs
- Temperature and humidity control
- Basal heat
- Removal of diseased cuttings
- Hardening off procedures
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LO 6.0 - Describe different cutting propagation systems
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LO 6.1 - Describe Mist, Fog, Warm Bench and Plastic, Cold Frame, Polythene Tunnel, and Outdoor propagation systems in terms of:
- Principles of the system
- Components and Controls
- Suitable cutting types (Soft wood, semi-hardwood, hardwood)
- Suitable species
- Costs (set up, running and maintenance)
- Advantages and disadvantages
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LO 7.0 - Take a range of cuttings using safe working practices
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LO 7.1 - Carry out risk assessment
- State hazards
- Assess risks
- Put appropriate control measures in place
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LO 7.2 - Make up a suitable propagation mix as directed
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LO 7.3 - Prepare and assemble equipment
- Prepare trays, secateurs, knives
- Polythene bags
- Labels/ pen, nursery record
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LO 7.4 - Select and collect plant material as required
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LO 7.5 - Prepare suitable cuttings as required
for particular applications including, softwood, semi-hardwood, hardwood, nodal, inter-nodal, basal, heel stem cuttings, leaf, leaf-bud and root cuttings
- Clean cuts at correct location (node or inter-node)
- Wound if required
- Prepare and store batch of cuttings to prevent drying out pre insertion
- Prepare a small container of hormone if required
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LO 7.6 - Strike cuttings using appropriate method
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LO 7.7 - Label and water and put into propagation facility as required.
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LO 7.8 - Harden off
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LO 8.0 - Prepare seed for sowing and sow seed using safe work practices
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LO 8.1 - Carry out risk assessment
- State hazards
- Assess risks
- Put appropriate control measures in place
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LO 8.2 - Collection
- Collect seed as directed
- Explain methods of collection for common seed – Beech, oak, chestnut, hawthorn, ash, birch, sycamore
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LO 8.3 - Extraction, cleaning and preparing seed
- extract seed if necessary
- explain cleaning and preparation procedures for different seed types
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LO 8.4 - Seed storage
- Explain requirements for storage – vermin proof, environmental controls
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LO 8.5 - Carry out pre treatments
- stratification, acid treatment, scarification, hot water treatment
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LO 8.6 - Seed bed preparation
- Prepare a seed bed, fertilise as required and explain the requirement for advance weed control and sterilisation where necessary
or
- Prepare and fill seed tray as required
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LO 8.7 - Mycorrhizal associations
Explain the use of mycorrhizal association to assist seedling establishment
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LO 8.8 - Sow seeds using the following methods
- Precision sowing
- Seed trays
- Broad cast
- Plug trays
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LO 8.9 - Labelling
- Sowing date
- Batch number
- Genus and species
- Origin/source
- Provenance
- Record in nursery record
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LO 8.10 - Composts: Prepare suitable compost for pricking off seedlings outlining:
- Compost constituents
- Ratios of compost constituents
- Mixing technique
- Container filling techniques
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LO 8.11 - Pricking off and Aftercare
- Prick off using correct plant handling and equipment techniques
- Demonstrate a knowledge of hardening off procedure and appropriate timescale
Carry out aftercare
- Irrigation, weed control, pest and disease control, undercutting
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LO 9.0 - Carry out routine division and layering using safe work practices
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LO 9.1 - Carry out risk assessment
- State hazards
- Assess risks
- Put appropriate control measures in place
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LO 9.2 - Divide bulbs, tubers, rhizomes or crowns
- Carefully lift plant
- Check for damage, disease, rots
- Divide at suitable site(s) into suitable size(s)
- Re-pot or re-plant as directed
- Label as required
- Carry out aftercare and maintenance (nutrition, irrigation, weed control, cultural and crop protection)
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LO 9.3 - Use layering techniques to propagate plants
- Assemble required equipment
- Select suitable plants (pest and disease free, true to type)
- Prepare ground for layering
- Select plant part for layering, wound if necessary
- Suitably fix to ground in good contact with soil
- Carry out aftercare and maintenance (nutrition, irrigation, weed control, cultural and crop protection)
- Air layering
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