Thanks Jim

That was my assumption .... but I've been known to be wrong before !!
Like I mentioned in a previous post, I have a Bloodgood covered with great
looking potential air-layers, but the branches are 6 or 8 feet long with
hundreds if not thousands, of dormant buds.
Logic told me the more leaves the better, but my logic often fails me.

I look forward to air-layering a dozen or more Bloodgoods and Prunus in a
couple of months.
I plan on letting them produce roots until next fall, then I'll remove them
from the donor tree, cut them back to a reasonable length (foot or so), and
stick them into large pots in my cold room for the winter.

Sound reasonable ?

Mark Hill





-----Original Message-----
From: Internet Bonsai Club ] On Behalf Of
Jim Lewis
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 4:32 PM
To:
Subject: [IBC] Basic Air Layering Questions .....

Don't cut back at all. The leaves are very busy making surgars,
etc. for the energy needed for those roots you hope to form under
that plastic wrap. And the tree itself is under a bit of stress.
Since the water comes up from the REAL roots and flows UNDER the
scraped-away layering area to serve the leaves, they won't wilt.
So, the more leaves (the merrier!) the more roots.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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