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It's cheaper to just grow new plants from a cutting of the original plant than it would be to buy all new seeds, and it would also take longer for the seeds to grow to be the same size as new plants grown from vegetative propogation.

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Because some field crops such as potatoes and peppermint do not produce viable seeds and cannot be economically produced any other way.

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