Someone would need to e-mail Nic about copyright questions,
though since it would be for an educational purpose it probably
would be OK. I don't have Naka II, so haven't seen the picture.

I have, however, _always_ said that bonsai books are the
absolute worst place to get reliable botanical information from.

Suggest you call your local agricultural extension office and
ask them; they at least should put you in touch with someone who
layers often -- perhaps a camellia grower.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - When we see
land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it
with love and respect - Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac


On 12 Jan 2005 at 3:19, 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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