Partially encapsulated plant cuttings

• Main Authors: PANKAJ BACHARAM DHONUKSHE, TOBIAS GÜNTER DÜMMEN, JOHANNES FRANCISCUS JOHANNA MARIA VAN DEN HEUVEL
• Format: Patent
• Language: Dutch; English
• Published: 14.06.2016
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPSOR SEAWEED; FISHING; FORESTRY; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; TRAPPING; WATERING

The present invention relates to methods for providing improved vigour, and especially priming or improving root formation, of plant cuttings and to plant cuttings, amongst others, obtainable by the present methods. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods for improving the vigour of plant cuttings, wherein the method comprises the steps of a) contacting a plant cutting with a polymeric solution, or suspension, optionally comprising one or more plant growth promoting and/or plant protecting compounds, thereby providing a coated plant cutting; b) allowing the polymeric solution, or suspension, of the coated plant cutting to solidify into a complexed coating thereby providing an encapsulated plant cutting; wherein said encapsulated plant cutting is coated with the complexed coating from the basal cut surface or tip of the plant cutting to less than 60% of the total length of said plant cutting to partially encapsulate the plant cutting with the complexed coating.