Re: Re: Air Layering

Has anyone tried those rooter pots?  Do they work?

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Kitty
Sent: 6/22/2004 7:49:40 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Air Layering

> Libby,

> I found this description w/ illustration:

> http://www.texas-rose-rustlers.com/propagat.htm

> In addition to the sphagnum-wrap air layering I was familiar with, they show

> another method called the Tape Method.  I found it very interesting and just

> might try it.

> And here's another one that covers several types of layering.

> http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/hil/hil-8701.html

> 

> Kitty

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Libby Valentine" <L_Valentine@adelphia.net>

> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>

> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:35 PM

> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Air Layering

> 

> 

> > Anybody care to do the 2 minute summary for those of us who are not plant

> > propagators?  (yet!)

> >

> > Thanks!

> >

> > Libby

> > MD zone 6

> >

> > ----- Original Message ----- 

> > From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>

> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>

> > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 10:13 PM

> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] Air Layering

> >

> >

> > > Well Jim... now that is interesting!

> > >

> > > You are saying that even after time in the ground, something that was

> > > 'air layered' will never get a tap root? How in the world can they

> > > survive for any length of time without one?

> > >

> > > I have to admit I know nothing about air layering other than a 1/2 hour

> > > special that included some highlights among other things. Not enough

> > > info to really understand the process or how it worked.

> > >

> > > I am majorly confused here. ... nothing new:)

> > >

> > > Donna

> > > Hum... must of us got here.... like some of us didn't? LOL!

> > >

> > > > I've done some air layering, Jesse, but not a lot. It is the way most

> > > > litchis, macadamia nuts, and rubber plants [Ficus elastica], and, I'm

> > > > sure, many other plants are usually propagated. The Royal Horticulture

> > > > Society's propagation book [AHS published it as "Plant Propagation"]

> > > > has very good instructions in how to air layer stuff.

> > > >

> > > > The one disadvantage to air layering [verses propagation by seed or by

> > > > grafting scion wood onto a seedling] is that the air layered clones

> > > > will not produce tap roots. Most of the commercial litchi orchards in

> > > > south Florida were simply blown away by hurricane Andrew because the

> > > > trees had no tap roots.

> > > >

> > > > I think the general rule is that any plant that can be propagated by

> > > > cuttings, can also be air layered, but there are other plants--the

> > > > afore-mentioned macadamias and rubber plants--that do not [or only

> > > > rarely] respond as cuttings. Cuttings have the same no-tap-root

> > > problem

> > > > that air layers have but generally they are easier to propagate and

> > > > require a whole lot less time to do so. I usually try cuttings first;

> > > > then air layering; then seedling and grafting [provided, of course, I

> > > > have seedlings and access to scion wood].

> > > >

> > > > Sometimes I do just seedlings. "Just seedlings" is always a crap

> > > shoot,

> > > > but sometimes it's fun to see what sexual reproduction has cooked up

> > > > for you. I mean, hey, that's how most of us got here!

> > >

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