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TLE
Quarter 1 – Module 2: TLE-Agriculture
Plant Propagating Techniques
EPP/TLE – Grade 6
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 2: Plant Propagating Techniques
First Edition, 2020

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TLE-Agriculture
Quarter 1 – Module 2:
Plant Propagating Techniques
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the TLE 6-Agriculture Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Plant
Propagating Techniques!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators both
from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in helping
the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming
their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help
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will help you in guiding the learners.

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You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage
their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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For the learner:

Welcome to the EPP/TLE 6-Agriculture Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on

Plant Propagating Techniques!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for
guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to
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 This is a task which aims to evaluate your
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We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and
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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the nature of EPP-Agriculture. The scope of this module permits it to be used
in many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the diverse
vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard
sequence of the course. But the order in which you read them can be changed to
correspond with the textbook you are now using.

The module includes:

• Lesson 1 –Plant Propagating Techniques

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Explain the different techniques of propagating plants.

2. Perform different plant propagation techniques.
3. Express your love and care for a tree through slogan making.

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 What I Know

Direction: Choose a technique of propagating plants below

that will match the statement on each item. Write your answers
in your notebook.

Marcotting Budding Layering

Asexual Sexual Cutting

____________1. A branch or shoot is used as a propagative material which is twisted

down and covered with soil until the bud appears.
_____________2. A form of grafting where bud (scion) is not cut off. It allows
the root to come out while still connected to the mother plant; when
roots are fully developed the branch is cut-off.
_____________3. It is like cutting except that the branch is not cutoff. It allows the
root to come out while still connected to the mother plant; when
roots are fully developed the branch is cut-off.
_____________4. Makes use of seeds and follows the process of pollination.
_____________5. Plants multiply by tubes, by suckers, by runners or stems.

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Lesson
Importance of Tree Planting
1 and Plant Propagation

What is a tree and why do we need to plant and propagate trees?

Trees are erect and sturdy plants with single stem capable of reaching
a height of 20-30 feet upon reaching maturity.

Trees are as important as breathing. They help maintain ecological

balance. What is ecological balance? It is concept that speaks of maintaining
a balance in nature, thus, if we disturb any one element, then all the other
elements get interrupted in the entire system.

There is a give and take relationship between trees and man. Trees give
off oxygen and take in carbon dioxide, while man gives off carbon dioxide and
takes in oxygen. Each is as important as the other. Taking care and
maintaining natural balance allows everyone to survive. Now, what can you
do to maintain ecological balance?

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 What’s In

Direction: List down the trees fruit-bearing trees you found in your
locality. Write your answers in your notebook

Name of the Tree Type/Location/Descriptions Quantity

Fruit-
Example: Star Apple bearing/Backyard/shady & 5
tall.
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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 Notes to the Teacher
Provide an interactive worksheets that explain the Different
ways of Plant Propagation and discuss the Scientific
Techniques/Methods of Propagating Plants/Trees/Fruit-bearing
Trees.

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 What’s New

What is Plant Propagation?

Propagation, in Horticulture, is the reproduction of plants by any number of

natural or artificial means. With crops that produce seed freely and come true closely
enough for the purposes in view, growing from seed usually is the cheapest and the
most satisfactory method of plant propagation.

Plants especially the fruit bearing-trees are considered as top source and
income for most of the families in provinces, hence are now part of the community’s
daily means of survival. Technicians, experts and farmers are using sexual and
asexual propagation techniques to hasten the growth and production of plants, trees,
fruit-bearing trees and the like.

What is It

Ways by Which Plants are Propagated

Sexual Propagation, this process produces a new plant generally from the
union of cells from different parent plants. It is the transmission of pollen grains from
the anther to the stigma. After the ovule is fertilized, it matures into a seed. A seed
is a mature ovule. This is the most common method of plant propagation.

It is not recommended for fruits trees because even if the parent plants have
good seeds, it does not follow that the seedlings have the characteristics of the
parents; Size, shape, quality, and harvest may vary.

But the seeds are often used by large scale growers to enable them to hand-
pick outstanding grower-plants from seeds planted.

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 Sexual Propagation

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A cycle showing how plants propagate sexually

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Asexual Propagation. Plants multiply naturally in different ways without aid

of the sexual organs of the plants. In this process, the plant duplicates itself exactly.
Ways of Asexual Propagation

1. By the leaves- when leaves meet a damp surface of the soil, they soon
multiply. An example is Begonia.

https://eschooltoday.com/science/asexual-reproduction/images/leaf-with-buds-for-
propagation.png

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cartoon-48434156.jpg
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2. By roots- Roots are separated when plants are
divided. Example are orchids, palmeras and herbs.

https://eschooltoday.com/science/asexual-reproduction/images/stem-runners-
asexual-reproduction.png

3. By tubers- Tubers are thickened stems with

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buds and nodes like scars. Example are sweet
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potato(camote), yam.

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4. By suckers- A sucker is a stem or a shoot which springs from the

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portion of a plant48434156.jpg
or tree. An example is banana.

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playful-cartoon-48434156.jpg

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playful-cartoon-48434156.jpg

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 5. By means of runners/stolon- A branch from the base of the stem runs along
the ground and produces a new plant. Examples
is strawberry.

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cale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/strawberry_runners-5916177f5f9b586470cfe875.jpg

6. By creeping stems/Rhizomes- roots are produced on the surface new

plants coming from buds. An example is ginger.

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6H63t9wilyo/VGmih1_J71I/AAAAAAAAAe0/rUEi9ysKsEI/s1600/ginger-
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Artificial methods of Plant Propagation

Most of the families in the provinces grow trees and fruit bearing trees not
only for personal needs but as a source of income as well. To rush the production
farmers, they practice artificial methods of plant propagation.
The following are the examples of commonly used artificial propagation:

1. Cuttings- Several parts of the plants are cut for propagation.

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2. Marcotting. It is like cutting except or above the nodes. All leaves and small
branches are trimmed off. Lanzones and chicos are successfully propagated
this way. Marcotting is usually done in rainy season.

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E_sfE/s1600/IMG_4036.JPG

3. Budding- It is a form of grafting where bud (scion) is inserted into a bark of a

well-selected branch. Splicing the branch will hold the bud in place. A cut is
made to enable nourishment to flow to the bud.

https://irrecenvhort.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-prop-
glossary/images/06graftingbuddingtypes/graftingbudchip/image9.jpeg

4. Layering-A branch or a root is used a propagative material. They are

twisted down and covered with soil until the bud appears. When
rooting is established, the new plant is ready for transplanting.

http://www.yourgardeninginfo.com/wpcontent/uploads/2010/11/layering-
plants-different-methods.jpg

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 5. Grafting- a process in which stem of one plant (mother plant) is inserted into
another plant (a seedling). The two units are formed into another plant.
Examples are mango, guava, santol.

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6. Inarching- a process where the scion is united with its root stock. This is done
by selecting a growing rootstock and fitting it with a branch that will be grafted
by means of longitudinal cut. Both cuts are then fitted together and securely
tied with a twine.

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/vegitativepropagation1-
140926223253-phpapp02/95/vegetative-propagation-1-20-638.jpg

Importance of the Scientific Way of Planting Seedlings

Using the scientific way of planting is important because of the following:

1. Plants will grow fast, strong, and healthy.

2. There is less mortality or death of plants because pests and diseases
will be controlled.
3. More plants can be grown and harvested.
4. Good price in selling good quality plants.
5. There is more profit gained.

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 What’s More

Independent Activity 1
Direction: Multiple Choice. Write the letter of the correct answer in your notebook.
1. This refers to stems or shoots emerging from portions of plants or trees.
a. Runners b. Suckers c. Seeds d. Rhizomes
2. Roots emerged from the surface from which new plant develops from buds
a. tubers b. runners c. suckers d. cuttings
3. A sexual type of propagation, the most common as it is the easiest.
a. Seeds b. runners c. suckers d. cuttings
4. A type of propagation which refers to a part of a plant that is cut and
propagated.
a. Seeds b. runners c. marcotting d. cuttings
5. There are slim branches that grow from base of stem running along the
ground.
a. Seeds b. runners c. marcotting d. cuttings
6. A process wherein a ring of bark on a large branch is removed, the inner
surface scrape lightly then wrapped with moist soil or moss covered with
plastic or coco husk and secured tightly on both ends with a twine.
a. Marcotting b. layering c. grafting d. cutting
7. A process wherein a branch or shoot touches the ground, develops roots and
becomes an independent plant.
a. Marcotting b. layering c. grafting d. cutting
8. A process by which a scion is inserted into the rootstock to unite and grow as
one plant. United with a twine.
a. Inarching b. budding c. grafting d. layering
9. This is also a form of grafting using a single bud.
a. Marcotting b. layering c. inarching d. budding
10. It is a process wherein the scion is united with the rootstock.
a. Marcotting b. inarching c. budding d. layering

Independent Activity 2
Direction: Identify the name of each plant propagation technique. Write the
answer in your notebooks.
1._____________________ 2. _____________

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3.____________________ 4.___________________

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propagation.jpg

5.__________________

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 What I Have Learned

Let’s Remember:

• The science of propagating plants is called Horticulture. It covers the

art of flowering and fruiting of plants and trees. It is different from
agriculture since the latter covers a wider range of plants.
• Plant propagation may be sexual or asexual. Sexual propagation makes
use of seeds and follows the process of pollination while in asexual
propagation, plants multiply by the following means- by leaves, by
roots, by tubes, by suckers, by means of runners and stems.
• Methods of propagation are done by cutting, marcotting, budding, and
inarching/rooting.

What I Can Do

Direction: Perform either of the following Plant Propagation Techniques:

Marcotting, Grafting or Budding.
Note: Strictly perform the activity with an adult supervision.
See rubrics for grading.

Rubrics for Performance Activity

*Workmanship 25 pts
*Proper handling
of tools and equipment 25 pts
* Speed and Accuracy 25 pts
*Neatness 25 pts
Total 100 pts.

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 Assessment

A. Direction: Define.
1. Plant Propagation
2. Asexual Propagation
3. Sexual propagation
B. Direction: Enumerate the artificial methods of plant propagation.
(1-5)

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What’s In
Answers may
vary
What I Know What's More What I Can Do
1. Inarching Independent Activity 1 Answers may vary
2. Budding 1. B
3. Layeing 2. A Assessment
4. Sexual 3. A A. Definition:
5. Asexual 4. D 1. Plant
5. B Propagation-is
6. A the reproduction
7. B of plants by any
8. C number of
9. D natural or
10.B artificial means
2. Sexual
Independent Activity 2 Propagation-this
1. Inarching produces a new
2. Grafting plant generally
3. Cutting from the union
4. Marcotting of cells from
5. Layering parent plants.
6. 3. Asexual
Propagation-
Plants multiply
naturally in
different ways
without aid of
the sexual
organs of the
plants.
B. Enumeration
1. Inarching
2. Marcotting
3. Layering
4. Grafting
5. Budding or
cutting
Answer Key
References
Books:
David Basbas, Leonora, Ph.D., Learning and Living in the 21st Century,
Rex Bookstore, 2017

Asprer, Fe F., Mangalindan, S.J, Sumisim, Corazon M., Hele For Life,
Library Copyright 2009,2014, 2013

Arsenue, Ruth, A., de Guzman, Jeffrey, D., Ipolan, Catalina, R. Peralta,

Gloria, A. EdD., Quiambao, Yolanda, L., Kaalaman at Kasaysayan
Tungo sa Kaunlaran, Vibal Group, Inc., 2016
Images:
https://sites.google.com/site/meride592/_/rsrc/1438381878036/home/introduct
ion/definition/types-of-propagation/sexual-propagation/I10-22-plants2.jpg
https://eschooltoday.com/science/asexual-reproduction/images/leaf-with-buds-
for-propagation.png
https://eschooltoday.com/science/asexual-reproduction/images/stem-runners-
asexual-reproduction.png
https://www.ruralliquidfertilisers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/fast-fact-
tuber-1.jpg
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/banana-tree-green-fresh-playful-cartoon-
48434156.jpg
https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/w8TRNQ0JNb7I0_X1hj4pen0Ayds=/1500x100
0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/strawberry_runners-
5916177f5f9b586470cfe875.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-
6H63t9wilyo/VGmih1_J71I/AAAAAAAAAe0/rUEi9ysKsEI/s1600/ginger-medicinal-
plant-and-their-uses.jpg
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pg
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https://irrecenvhort.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-prop-glossary/images/06-grafting/03-
buddingtypes/graftingbudchip/image9.jpeg
http://www.yourgardeninginfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/layering-
plants-different-methods.jpg
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https://image.slidesharecdn.com/vegitativepropagation1-140926223253-
phpapp02/95/vegetative-propagation-1-20-638.jpg
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/propagationmethodsinplants-
180326010617/95/propagation-methods-in-plants-38-638.jpg?cb=1522026430
https://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_h/H335/images/bark%20grafting.jpg
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https://morningchores.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/What-is-Layering.jpg
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