Gerberas can be propagated by both sexual (seed) and asexual (vegetative) methods. Seed propagation is however, usually unsatisfactory since impurity of strain produces a great deal of variation. It also requires longer time to produce flowering plants. Vegetative propagation, on the other hand, overcomes these problems, and the plants obtained by this method perform better than those from seeds. Commercial cultivation of gerbera however, entails tissue culture (or micro propagation), which involves rapid multiplication of explants by repeated sub culturing and preparation of divisions for transfer to soil.