How to Air Layer (Bonsai Propagation Tutorial) | The Bonsai Supply
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024
- Learn about a bonsai propagation technique: Air layering.
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You are so informative I feel like I’m in school when I’m watching your channel
Last year I air layered a carpe myrtle branch, now with a trunk about 5” in diameter and about 12’ tall! It’s just starting to develop the flower buds. One of the branches has some good movement, about 1.5” in diameter and about 2’ long, I air layered it a few weeks ago and hopefully it takes! 🤞🏼
Good luck Joel! 🙂
Nice tutorial Jerome. Thanks.
agree fully, good tutorial
Great information as always Jerome. I love the idea of using the pods. I have never seen those before.
Thank you Raymond🙏 we carry them now on our Amazon recommendation page: Check out this page from The Bonsai Supply www.amazon.com/shop/wearethebonsaisupply
The pods are great, I’ve been using them on trees where they fit for a couple years successfully, I do recommend if your in a hot or dry climate to additionally wrap them with plastic to help hold in moisture. The larger pods have openings on the sides and the sphagnum will dry out. As Jerome recommended, watering them is an option to, but depending where they are this might not be convenient.
Here's a tip when using those plastic black balls for air layering: put one of those black clips just below the area that's been stripped of bark. That prevents the ball from dropping below the area of incision (the roots grow from the upper portion of the incision)
Well explained Jerome easy and clear 👍👍🇵🇷
Thank you Carlos 🙏🌳
Great tutorial..👍
I am currently nursing an air layering pod on my double purple lilac. I just used wire and left over plastic soil bags. I am about 4 weeks in. I spray some water under the fold and then gently squeeze out excess.
Good luck with yours Michelle
cool. im experimenting with 3 airlayers on the main trunk of a 6 foot tall bald cypress with the trunk at approximetly 2"
Nice video, I have currently a juniper air layer and a couple of roots can be already seen. But now we are going to hit winter. How will this be handled? do i need to separate it before frost is hitting the air layer
I use clear freezer bags with sphagnum moss, you can see the roots forming. Cut slits in the sides for the tree limb, Do not cut the zip or the bottom. Use 2 zip ties where the slits are to keep on the branch. I have only done 1"" diameter or less with this method.
That is also a great method, there are so many! I like the pod methods because I find it easiest 😅
Sup Jerome👋. Appreciate the video.
I use gloves most of the time when I’m doing dirty bonsai work because I prefer not to have sappy hands, plus I like the small grade of protection the gloves I use have against tool related injuries. What reason/s do you have for recommending gloves when working with moss or dirt?
TY,, I want to try Raw Honey.. I've had no luck w my grafts nor air rooting,, seems like FL has too many "bugaboos"
I’ve seen some people using pieces of Aloe Vera, but I’m not sure if it really works…
Hey Jerome, can you air layer very young trees that you’ve gotten from a nursery? Say, 1-3 year old trees or do you need to wait until the trunks have solidified into more solid woody trunks?
Should we protect our harvested air layerings more this winter? Ex:Japanese maples
Back in the olden days, you would take damp sphagnum, cover the cut, wrap it in plastic wrap and secure it with electrical tape. Used to be a popular method for restarting certain house plants when they had gotten too large.
Hey Michael! Yes, I used to do it like that too. I now prefer this method, it is a lot easier.
Still a good practice especially for smaller trees where the cups won't fit IMO
I’m in zone 9b, when’s a good time to start on a juniper?
Educatif👍👍
Thank you!
Great. Let us know the results when you harvest your air layers.
Will do, thanks CK
What kinda soil do you use?
Ok Jerome, you said you’ve air layered a lot of species, have you ever done an oak tree? If so what was your out come? I found 2 amazing sand post oaks, with great gnarly branches I want to air layer, looking for someone who’s tried it on oaks.
The concept is the same for all trees. On oaks, you might need to add a wire on the top cut though as this specie rolls quite quickly
Does this apply to conifers as well when it comes to starting in early spring?
Yes angel it does 🙂
First of all, that knife looks scary!
Second of all, how deep do you have to carve into the wood? I’ve made a couple of successful boxwood air layers and I simply peeled off the ring of bark. I heard that boxwood is easy to air layer, so I was wondering if you have to go deeper with other species of trees.
Anyway, most of all, great video as always! Looking forward to see the work on the forest and on the stump!
Hey Stefano! That knife 🔪 is seriously sharp, I speak out of experience unfortunately 😂 I cut down all the way to the hard wood, which is the cambium layer.
Can you air layer a tree in half? By this I mean if you have a long trunk and want to shorten it can you air layer in the the middle of the tree
Yes, that would work perfectly 🙂
Would you 'risk' an air-layer on the main trunk of a Maple? (The 1st branch is just too high for my tree to ever look right.)
Yes absolutely I would do it. Have you thought about thread grafting?
@@WeareTheBonsaiSupply Thanks for your reply. Never thought about thread grafting although I have heard of it. I'll look into it.
Nice
Thank you
My whole budget for trees some month may be just $200. Yes I see a lot of great trees like that but there is a chance this tree may die, $200 is a lot to toss in the dirt. The bulk of people I meet who practice bonsai are not rich. What would be nice yo see would be a great man like you doing thru for the budget minded. Personally I go out in the field and find trees to take branches off that are more mature and look like older trees. You get out into nature and it’s free.
Hi Jerome, some advice please. I’m in NSW, Australia. Beginning of September(spring) last year I air layered a native bottle brush I basically gave up on it but the other day I had a look and it has heaps of roots developing all of a sudden (9 months). It is now winter and the temp has dropped to about 4deg at night. The average min temp in winter is probably 7-10. Should I wait until Spring to cut the branch and put it in soil or do it now in Winter? Thanks mate!
If you have a greenhouse that stays above 50 then you can take the air layer off. Set it on the ground though it will help make more roots
I’m with Jerome on this one. If you do not have a green house, apply the same principles as repotting. Wait until the buds swell, then whack it off and you can work with the hardened off roots a bit to get the radial pattern. No fertilizer until that first flush has fully hardened off.
This is just what I was taught, hope it helps. Good luck with yours!
Thank you both, great advice! I will keep an eye on it, cut and repot in spring! Thanks again
This may be a silly question, but why is it recommended to wear disposable gloves when handling moss and soil/ dirt? Thank you.
So when handling black potting soil you want to protect against contracting Legionnaires' disease. For moss you want to prevent the transmission of the fungal organism. In both cases that would only happen if you have cuts or scrapes on your hands, but often we are unaware of having any sort of cuts on our hands. That is why when handling both I wear gloves just as a precaution.
Also, I'm really interested to know about that knife you are using. I've just been using a standard grafting knife (folding style), but that concave edge seems ideal for air layering branches. Where would I find that kind of knife? Thanks.
hey, im trying to airlayer some apple trees. I used a black plastic bag for wraping the moss. It has been about 2 months now and i havent gotten any roots only callusing... Do you have any idea what might be wrong? The moss was very wet when i checked today...
Hey Jakob, that could be for several reasons. However on species that callus over quick a wire needs to be put in place. This is more of an advanced air layering technique and I will probably make a video about it at some point.
@@WeareTheBonsaiSupply thank you for the answer. I always thought the wire was like an optional thing… anyway, i love your chanel and am really looking forward to the video
6:21- problematic cut angle. if the branch was vertical, such a cut is fine but for a tilted branch, the cut needs to be parallel to ground for uniform rooting around the trunk. if this result is not desirable, then the branch has to be made vertical by tying it or tilting the pot.
bcos the upper cut line is tilted, it now has a upper & a lower part to it. rooting will mainly happen in that lower portion of the upper cut. the upper portion will have low rooting or none. once your branch is cut and planted vertically, most roots will be on one side only.
by the way i have a playlist on my channel called "Airlayering = Instant Trees" & it covers trees of all sizes & shapes.
it is probably the biggest such resource in the bonsai community. give it a look sometime. there is another playlist called "Surface Roots / Trunk Taper", featuring many airlayered cuttings from Indonesia. Indonesians are much better at this than the Japanese.
Can I graft a Japanese maple to a Mimosa tree?
If it is the tropical mimosa no
Gloves?. We are working with soil and plants.. not performing a medical procedure.. should we use face masks too?
Black potting soil as we all know has tons of soil born diseases, that is why you can’t travel with plants potted in black potting soil. To name a few tetanus, anthrax, and botulism, soil bacteria may cause gastrointestinal, wound, skin, and respiratory tract diseases.
The problem with the plastic domes you used. They are only good for straight trunks. Not if the tree has a bend 🇿🇦
That is very true! Good point!
Wait what he didn't use a rooting hormone?
No I didn’t. I explain why in the video 😅
@@WeareTheBonsaiSupply I’m fairly new to bonsai and for that reason I’m a bit sloppy. Iv rooted well over a dozen branches (thicker then a pencil) without rooting hormones
Those black spheres are actually not good because they're not air tight so your media will dry out.