Stump Planting

Abstract

Propagation of trees by root and stem cuttings, commonly known as stump planting, is now normal practice over most of the tropics. It depends on the' fact that both root and shoot systems of a number of species can regenerated from a length cut from the main axis of a seedling to include a portion of stem and taproot. Leafy shoots spring up from the stem some time before root growth starts. This latter usually takes the fo, n of one or more sinker roots from the cut end or a little above it and of horizontal feeding roots from the same parts and higher up the root stock. Some species which are not well suited to this form of generation may produce healthy looking shoots which afterwards die because no roots are formed.