Now - for future reference - I essentially girdled the branches
down to
where the wood is a greenish-white (removed all the bark and
cadmium layer),
dusted it with rooting hormone and then wrapped it in wet
spaghnum moss. I
then wrapped that with plastic sheeting and secured at both
ends. Did I go
too deep?

No. If anything, you should have gone deeper. You want to
scrape away to BARE wood. That greenish white sounds like it was
still living tissue.

You do NOT want to take off wood shavings, but you DO want to
scrape down to bare wood.

It's probably better to cover the sheeting with foil so the roots
develop in the dark. But that has nothing to do with the yellow
leaves.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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