Rice pit

Plant propagation is the process by which new plants grow from a variety of sources: seeds, cuttings, and other plant parts. Rice pit propagation can also refer to the man-made or natural dispersal of seeds.

Propagation typically occurs as a step in the overall cycle of plant growth. Countless plants are propagated each day in horticulture and agriculture. The materials commonly used for plant propagation are seeds and cuttings. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Seeds are typically produced from sexual reproduction within a species because genetic recombination has occurred.

This section does not cite any sources. Plants have a number of mechanisms for asexual or vegetative reproduction. Some of these have been taken advantage of by horticulturists and to multiply or clone plants rapidly. In some plants, seeds can be produced without fertilization and the seeds contain only the genetic material of the parent plant. Therefore, propagation via asexual seeds or apomixis is asexual reproduction but not vegetative propagation. A heated propagator is a horticultural device to maintain a warm and damp environment for seeds and cuttings to grow in. This can be in the form of a clear enclosed bin sitting over a hot pad, or even a portable heater pointed at the bin.