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What is budding?
Budding is a horticultural practice that involves the insertion of a scion onto the stock. A "scion" is a detached bud of a plant, while a "stock" is the stem of the parent plant. Budding is also one of the methods of artificial vegetative propagation that is done to grow new plants by asexual means. It is comparable to another method of vegetative reproduction called grafting, although grafting involves the insertion of branches instead of buds. Plant budding, as well as grafting, is used to produce a new plant that has the most desirable characteristics of the two parent plants.


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