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But you can only clone easily for some crops like tomatoes, mint, basil, rosemary, peppers without using rooting hormones. Other types such as large fruiting or single harvest crops are hard to clone without applying that stimulant. Personally, I use the hormones because it speeds up the rooting process.
Keeping this in consideration, can you clone any plant?
The cloning of plants is very common. In fact, it's so common that some plants even clone themselves naturally without any help from us. The cutting will produce roots of its own and then become a whole new plant identical to the original adult plant. Not all plants can be cloned via cuttings, though.
- African Violet – tip cutting.
- Acalypha (Red-hot cat tail) – stem cuttings.
- Aglaeonema (Chinese evergreen) – tip cuttings*
- Begonia – tip and stem cuttings*
- Beloperone (Shrimp Plant) – tip cuttings.
- Brassaia actinophylla (Schefflera) tip cuttings.
Also know, can you clone feminised plants?
Cloning from feminized seeds is no different than cloning from plants grown from regular seeds. The cutting is an identical clone of the donor plant. There is no difference in the degree of difficulty of propagation.
Select Your Mother Plant The plant you clone from should be at least 8 weeks old and will need a little prep work before clones are taken. To prepare your plants for cloning make sure that you stop giving your plant nutrients for a few days before you plan on cloning it.