May 1, 2025
Seeing plants, veggies, fruits, and flowers in the home garden is such a delight. And the happiness elevates when we have grown them from the start with seeds. But there are certain fruits, plants, and veggies that are best grown with cuttings, and here we mention some.
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Lemon trees can grow from seeds, but that method is rather slow, and one can never be sure if the tree will actually produce lemons. So, if you want a sure-shot solution, buy a grafted plant from the nursery.
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Mint is another plant that is best grown through cuttings instead of seeds. It is easier for the Mint plant to grow and produce roots with a cutting, and then be propagated ahead.
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Snake plant too is best grown with a cutting, and growing them through seeds isn’t a very conventional method. Just make a ‘V’ shaped cutting on the leaf of the plant, keep it in water to encourage root growth, and then add it to a new pot.
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Another plant that is best grown through a grafting or a mature cutting is Avocado. And although Avocado can grow from a seed, it will take years to grow and will still not guarantee fruit in the tree.
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Banana plants also need to be grown with cuttings because they don’t grow from seeds. Commercial gardeners grow them using suckers or pups, which are small shoots that grow near the base of a mature banana plant.
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Papaya is typically grown from seed, but it is difficult to identify the type of seed it is, and Papaya will only grow from female plants. So to guarantee fruit-bearing plants, grafting or air layering is used when growing Papaya.
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Pothos, more famously called ‘Money plant’, is another plant that is grown with cuttings, instead of seeds. It is one of the easiest plants to propagate from cuttings, and roots quickly with or without soil.
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Although not everyone can grow apples at home, especially not on a balcony, if you have a bigger home garden, make sure to buy a grafted sapling to grow apples.
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Although Lettuce can be grown quickly with both seeds and cutting, using a base from the plant you have, is the best. Just keep the base in a shallow dish of water, and it will begin to sprout new leaves in a few days.
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While it is easy to grow strawberries from seeds, this process takes a lot of time, and trial and error can happen. So keep the lengthy process aside, and just grow them with either grafted plants to control pests, or with runners, to ease the process.
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