Indigenous Plant Propagation and Reintroduction Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply appropriate propagation techniques for selected indigenous plant species.
• Demonstrate seed collection, storage, and pretreatment methods to maximize germination.
• Implement vegetative propagation methods such as cuttings, division, and layering.
• Analyze site conditions and prepare planting areas for successful reintroduction.
• Evaluate the success of reintroduction efforts and recommend adaptive management actions.

Target Audience

This course is ideal for environmental practitioners, conservationists, horticulturists, and land managers involved in ecological restoration, landscaping, or sustainable land use.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Hands-on practicals form the core of this course, allowing learners to apply propagation and reintroduction techniques in real-world settings. Learners will collect and treat seeds, perform vegetative cuttings, manage nursery beds, and conduct a field reintroduction, ensuring competence in all key skills.

Practical Activities

• Seed Collection and Pre-treatment — Learners collect seeds from indigenous plants, test viability, and apply scarification or stratification treatments. (4h)
• Vegetative Propagation: Cuttings and Division — Learners take stem cuttings from stock plants, treat with rooting hormone, and plant in propagation trays. They also divide clump-forming species. (4h)
• Nursery Management: Potting and Care — Learners pot up rooted cuttings and seedlings, set up irrigation, and apply fertilizer and pest control measures. (4h)
• Hardening Off and Site Preparation — Learners gradually expose plants to outdoor conditions and prepare a reintroduction site by clearing weeds and digging holes. (4h)
• Reintroduction Planting and Monitoring — Learners plant hardened-off indigenous plants at the prepared site, apply mulch, and set up monitoring plots for survival assessment. (4h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.