ABSTRACT
Babaco (Carica x heilbornii Badillo nm pentagona (Heilborn) Badillo) propagation using apical softwood cuttings

Carlos E. Muñoz S.1
 

A method is described for the efficient propagation of the Babaco (Carica x heilbornii Badillo nm pentagona (Heilborn) Badillo). Apical softwood cuttings, obtained from sprouts arising from stumps left after cutting the trunk, were used. ln 37 days, 96% of the cuttings rooted when placed under intermittent mist in wet peat moss.

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1 Estación Experimental La Platina (INIA), Casilla 439, Correo 3, Santiago, Chile.