On 19 Sep 2004 at 23:09, AJCarroll1019 wrote:

Hello.I've tried airlayering many times in the past with very little (almost
none) success. But recently i picked up an old houseplant book and i saw
another method of airlayering in which the author cut a slit upwards into the
tree (about halfway into the trunk) as opposed to removing part of the bark. He
then slid a toothpick in to hold the cut open. Has anyone tried this method and
is it anymore efective.
thanks,

This method works OK with houseplants (with a less woody trunk)
but not so well with hardwood trees. It also does not produce a
balanced ring of roots around the new base, which makes it not
suitable for bonsai.

You probably didn't keep the sphagnum damp enough in your
earlier tries. Air layering is actually one of the easier means
of vegetative propagation.

Start them in the early spring and on most temperate hardwood
trees you should be able to separate them by mid summer.

There's a good article on air layering on our website:

http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ar....php?viewid=21

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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