- See offset for reference to Computer terminology .
Offsets are layers of plants. They are clones of the mother plants ("hens and chicks"), that means they have the same genetic code. If you want to propagate plants, which should have the same attributes like the parent (mother), you have to pick offsets or to divide the plant. Then it is an asexual reproduction. If you want to create new cultivars, you propagate with seeds and mix the parents. This is a sexual reproduction and creates new combinations. In nature wind, insects, bats, birds and so on inherit the pollination, in cultivation sometimes the breeder.
