Plants do not always need seeds to reproduce. Vegetative propagation offers three methods: leaf cutting, stem cutting, and layering. With a leaf cutting, you remove a leaf with its stem and place it in moist soil or water. A stem cutting uses a short piece of stem with a few nodes, rooted in soil. Layering bends a low stem to the ground and buries a wounded section until roots form. You pick two of these methods, test them on the same plant, and compare which one produces roots faster — revealing which approach to growing a new plant from the parent works best.