Re: About air layering plants
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] About air layering plants
- From: j*
- Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:36:57 -0500
YES!
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Brouillette <broutek@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 10:13 PM
Subject: [SG] About air layering plants
>Hello everyone - When you air layer your plants - do you wound or partially
>cut the branch before air layering it?
>
>On several occasions I have grafted several different species of pear into
a
>10 foot pear tree, in the upper branches. After I grafted, I used the same
>procedure as air layering - with the peat moss & plastic bag over the
graft.
>I never had a failer using this method with pear trees - for the graft to
>take.
>
>I tried using this same method grafting citrus in the upper branches, but
>had no success. Cajun
>