Let's try this again:
\/
__|___
------/_____\----------Branch tip
^ ^
Interesting water sprout on branch. Angle cuts as
shown, not all the way through the branch. The life
line continues unbroken across the top. "^"= roots
Naka shows the actual tree planted and the rootage in
a photo.
Kits
--- Tex John wrote:
Jim,
This is far beyond my experience, but Naka's hand
drawing does show roots on
both the trunk-side branch cut and and the
branch-tip branch cut.
Definately odd looking. Maybe someone can upload a
scan to the forum?
John
"Jim Lewis" wrote in message
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On 11 Jan 2005 at 8:50, Kitsune Miko wrote:
I have the book in ASCi it looks like this"
|airlayer
|
______ ______ _______ branch tip
| |
cut cut
There is a bottom cut, but not all the way
through at
the two cut sites. They are stuffed with moss,
wrapped, and cut off when roots form on either
side of
the above indicated airlayer. My question is
whether
roots also from on the piece more towards the
branch
tip.
This seesm to be a variation on the
put-a-pebble-in-a-slit-and-burry-in-the-ground
technique. but ont hat one the roots form at the
end
of the growing tip.
Kits
Based on the biology of trees (plants!) and how
nutrients,
water, etc. are moved around, I cannot imagine how
you could get
roots in both places; you might be in danger of
getting roots at
neither place.
_I_ would not risk it in a plant that I really
wanted to get at
least one layer off of. Do the bottom layer now,
then the
other layer in a few years when the new roots are
fully
supporting the new plant.
Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL
- Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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