mother plant
Original propagation stock
A mother plant is a mature, healthy plant kept specifically for taking cuttings or clones rather than for harvest.
Growers select mother plants for desirable traits—vigor, yield, resistance to disease—then propagate genetically identical offspring from them indefinitely.
The term is especially common in cannabis cultivation and commercial horticulture.
She keeps three mother plants in the grow room to supply clones for each cycle.
- rootingActively cheering someone on
- originatorOne who initiates
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- sourcePoint of origin
- genotypeOrganism's complete allele set
meristem · cuttage · regeneration · layering · tissue culture · cuttings · root cutting · template · breeding · pruning · fertilization · nursery · grafting · seed collection · hormones · mulching · seed dispersal · hierarchy
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- plant propagationseed, cutting, bulb, runner, rhizome
- Orchid Propagationpropagation, keiki, division, cloning, tissue culture
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- tea industrytea trade, tea garden, tea estate, tea leaves, tea picking
- cell culturecell culture, cell lines, tissue culture, culture plate, culture dish