Grow Trees The Tree Growers Tool Kit helps people to grow the best trees for their lifestyle. We're developing a set of multi-media resources for tree growers and field workers.

Growing trees from cuttings

TGTG_Cuttings The Tree Growers Tool Kit currently contains a booklet, training videos, research papers and project reports that show farmers & field workers how to:

Propagate trees from marcots
Propagate trees from buds and grafts
Propagate trees from truncheons
Propagate trees in non-mist propagators

Booklets:

This A4 Manual describes the top-cleft grafting technique for Kamarere (Eucalyptus deglupta):

Grafting of Kamarare

This A4 Manual is designed for smallholder cocoa farmers in the Pacific region with clear guidelines and colour drawings:

Solomon Islands Cocoa Book

Videos:

These 10 short Training Videos show how trees can be grown from cuttings:

Marcotting

Local farmer from PNG demonstrates marcotting of citrus tree in a clear step-wise process. Click here to download.

Local farmer from PNG gives a practical demonstration of marcotting a local fruit tree. Click here to download.

Local farmer from PNG demonstrates the successful marcotting of an apple using primarily local material. Click here to download.

Budding

Local farmer from PNG demonstrates budding of two hibiscus bushes to create an interesting ornamental form with two different flower colours on the same shrub. Click here to download.

Grafting

Local farmer from PNG demonstrates grafting of two hibiscus bushes to create an interesting ornamental form with two different flower colours on the same shrub. Click here to download.

Local farmer from PNG demonstrates grafting of an avocado stem, including wrapping the graft to limit damage and increase the likelihood of success. Click here to download.

Truncheons

Local farmer shows how to take large woody cuttings (truncheons) from an apple tree using primarily local materials. Click here to download.

Local farmer shows how to set-up a small village propagator for propagating teak truncheon type cuttings. Click here to download.

Non-mist propagators

The students at OISCA, in East New Britain Province of PNG, demonstrate the construction and set-up of a new non-mist propagator. Click here to download.

Sylvester Kulang, from University of Natural Resources and Environment in East New Britain Province of in PNG, details the methods used to successfully produce cuttings from teak hedge. Click here to download.