Question

What are the advantage of Vegetative Propagation? ​

Answer 1

Advantages of vegetative propagation

★Quicker and more certain.

★Produces identical quality as the parent.

★Plants that do not have viable seed, can be reproduced.

★Flowers produced are of superior quality.

★Desirable character of fruit can be maintained.

Answer 2

Answer

The advantage of vegetative propagation are :-

• Vegetative propagation is a more rapid,

propagation as compared to seeds. Such

plants take less time to grow and bear

flowers and fruits early.

• The new plants are exact copies of the

parent plant as they are produced from a

single plant.

• It produces a large number of plants in a

short time.

• Plants grown vegetatively usually need less

attention in the early stages than the plants

grown from seeds.

• Plants like banana, seedless grapes, roses,

pineapples and dahlias which do not

produce seeds can only be grown

vegetatively.