One year, our family had a Weenie Roast on the beach in our Marina. We used some Willow branches from my backyard for wiener sticks. When we were done, we stuck them in the sand and jokingly said they'd be trees next year. Much to our surprise, two of them survived. 50 years later, one is still there.

Proud of you coach Smith you blew up on KZfaq this guy is my all time favorite science teacher

Brilliant to use soda bottles! Much better than wrapping plastic! Thank you!

Love your show. Especially you and your son working together. 🙏

I haven't air layered anything before , and I am always looking for a way to repurpose water bottles; thank you so much for the great idea !

Lovely demonstrations Mark (and nice to see family involved) , nice trick using the sofa bottle - almost ready made - look forward to seeing the results. All the best, Hugh 😊👍🏼🌿

Learning Like a beast! Your boy not has solid knowledge to not only produce more fruit but start his propagation business $$$

Thank for sharing your knowledge and expertise! Much appreciate 🙏

I feel cheated. Where are the results?

That was a awesome clip Mark. I have done a bit but you encouraged me to try the blueberry and apples. I have a fig I was going to do a cutting from. Your a wealth of knowledge, Phil enjoyed your clip too. Valuab like info. I better keep an eye on our young apples and plums now with Philip. Lol

Thank you Mr Woodcutter and son! We tried to air layer a lemon branch last year but failed. We will give it a shot again! Thanks.

AK Woodcutter!! I have been grafting over the last year and thought it's time I learned a new technique....imagine my surprise when I look it up on YT and here you are...awesome. Thanks for the info...looks pretty straightforward, I'm going to give this a shot.

Pretty cool info! Good luck on the growth, looking for an update, thanks for sharing brother, stay safe!👍

Awesome stuff my brother nice to see your son air-laying his fruit tree always enjoy watching you

That just encouraged me to do an apricot tree air layering. Thanks

This just popped up in my recommendations. I've never seen this done before.

What a special time with your son, passing down survival skill that he will take with him as he grows up and pass down to his young ones, I love that. I am going to try this technique. God bless.

Can’t wait to try some layers of my own.Thanks for sharing

Aloha from the 808 getting ready to do lemon tree you just taught me how merry Christmas and Aloha

This is a pretty cool process ! I seen MHP gardener do this with a tomato years ago . Thanks for sharing !

You two are adorable. And the cat lady.

This is so neat. I hope they all grow well for you. Thank you for sharing. Great info have a great day

Thanks for showing a simple method ! !

That is a great idea..can't wait to see if it works..🥰👍 Have a great day.

What in the heck! never heard of that before. it's so cool to watch and learn about new things. thanks Mark

So simple I love it thank you so much

This is a great idea!👍🏼

This is crazy cool😀😀 I have never heard of this. Thanks for sharing this technique.

I sooo wish I could grow fruit trees!! Hubby wont let me lol. Tyfs hun. Have a great day luv ya💞💞

I enjoying doing Air Layers. The perfect method to multiply your fruits trees Awesome video Thank you for sharing ...

Great job! Loved the David the Good bit.😁

Very interesting, beautiful idea . Thanks for sharing. Like. Have a nice day.

I sure enjoy learning from you!!!

Arkansas Woodcutter nice work guys !!!! i never heard of air layering . ive grafted some but never this. theres lots of stuff i want to get more of .

That's really cool way to propagate new plants!

I enjoyed this video! I've been quite successful with just sticking a cutting in a bucket of my good soil and watching it take off. I've rooted 3 fig trees from my mama tree in the last 3 years. My first one is now in the ground as of 2 weeks ago and almost 3' tall and is fruiting for the 2nd year this year. It started out as a 14" 'stick' that I stuck down in the old bottom part of a shop vac that the motor had burned out on years ago. *I can't trash something, especially on wheels, if I can use it for planting!*. I left it in the vac base for 2 years watching it in awe as it fruited during it's second summer. Less than a dozen figs, but still a success! Rooted 2 fig trees for a neighbor last year and she now has them in her yard. Today I'm going to snag a mulberry branch from one neighbor and a pear limb from another and get them started to add to my food forest. Also will be air-layering on 4 of my larger blueberry bushes. Have a great day! Patricia

Great video 👍🏽 Thanks for sharing

I can't believe I am learning so much. Thanks for all the info.

I always enjoyed doing things like this when I went to ICC. Haven't done it in a while. Enjoyed watching!

Good video. I learned something. I like the use of the water bottle. Keep us updated.

thanks for the video! Gonna try the bottle variation.

Nice relaxed video sir. Thank you. Blessings and peace from UK

Extremely helpful. Thank Yooouuu 👍🏼.

Im always learning something new here , I guess that means I have a lot to learn, thanks for sharing your experiences

That was a very interesting video ill be trying this ,for sure. Thanks buddy

I always learn something from your videos. Thanks for sharing.

good info mark best of luck with those layers!!

The key to air layering is making sure the soil around the branch is COMPACTED really good.

I have seen air layering before but not this way. I like learning new things!

Almost 1 year later... me sitting in my house.... "I think I want to try some air layering today"

Wow I always wanted to know how to do that. Thank you so much,

Hi Mark, I liked the way you did the air layer with the bottle. We bip to grow our gooseberry bushes and we have dipped to grow raspberry bushes . 💕 NonnaGrace

Lovely place full.of greens and trees...

Very interesting. Keep us in the success of it.

Nice weed plants 👍🏽👋

I’m ready to see how this turns out. I used to graft pecan trees about 25 years ago with about an 80% success rate to make new varieties. Take care and have a blessed day.

I like the process of layering, I had good results with cobnuts last year. I'm trying a slightly different method with my fig ( in a bag of water tied around the branch) but gonna ground layer it too. Great video 👍 Kind regards. Woody 👍👍

I’m a new subscriber, thank you for sharing 👍

Love it I’m subbed

You layered your blueberries into buckets - great idea!

Good Job, thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing l will try this method of starting to root my fruit tree

Good informative sharing 👍

Never seen this before really interesting I’ve done general propagation but not air layering cheers 🍻

This was a great video i didn't know about this. A+ brother

good information ,got to do this one day.stay safe my friend

Hey Thank you for sharing! I am going to try this with a couple fruit trees! Would love to see an update on any if possible.

Great job 👍

I love your son doing this with you! xo

Thanks for sharing bro! We just picked up some blue berry plants. I wanna get more from them and the blackberries we planted. This will help a lot! Gro Dat!!

Since the roots all form from the top bark above the stripped portion, you only need rooting powder above the cut on the intact bark.

Great video man

That is interesting thank you 🇺🇸👍🏻🇺🇸👍🏻

Good Idea!!!!!

AWESOME VIDEO!! Great Teaching,I've tried grafting with no success,this looks much easier and more likely to be successful,thank you for sharing this!

Go to a hobby store near you. get some clear two piece plastic bulbs. use them as your air layering ball. I’ve done it. they work great or you can order cutting globes that work also. At hobby store you can get most every size you need. Take a Dremel tool and a diamond tip bit to put hole in ball for size of branch going through it. Hope you try this and the best part is they are reusable.

Nice seeing this done brother! Take care and stay safe, Rob

Interesting. Came from Bobble heads channel. Will do some of you other videos out! Hugs

Nice. Thanks for sharing! Your place is beautiful. It is wonderful expression of your abundant thoughtfulness, caring and creativity. Question: do you need to cover the air layer container with opaque material to keep out the sunlight? I saw that in another video.

did i hear free? im here. this is wonderful.. will be following to see how they do for you .. great DIY Mark.

Saluti dall'Italia, da Genova. In italiano questo metodo di riprodurre le piante si chiama "margotta". Ciao!!

It would have been nice if there was a follow-up video.

I like this method better than the plastic bag method.

Very Interesting I have never heard of that before. I am going to try that on my Apricot. I'll let you know and where do I get rooting hormone? Great video loved it.

Good demonstration. Any luck with the persimmons? I have read they are very reticent to root.

I've done airlaying before.It's a good way to make to make trees.

6:11 That's some impressive voice control

Real gems here

Many thanks for sharing this, I found this very interesting 🤔, I shall be trying this myself, please can you do an update on how you got on with them and how you do the next stage, take good care kind regards alan🌿...............THE DAWN CHORUS PLOT

wow never heard of this before

Update would be great

Man this video is interesting and simple to follow. How did this work.

Just so people know when you do air layering if your using rooting hormone powder or gel apply it to the bark section above the ring barked area , why because that’s where the roots come from not the ring barked area of the bare wood.

I saw the thumbnail and had to watch I haven't done air layering yet but I watched several videos and it looked like an awkward setup. I thought, "why don't they just take a pop bottle and split it to contain the soil?" Maybe I should try that with a apple tree I have this year.

Morning Captain woodcutter. I have been trying to get my fig trees done like that for a long time. And my neighbor has a bush that I need to get cuttings off of. It seems like there is always something else that gets me sidetracked. ( grinning ) Have a super day Captain.

Nice

Hi. Very nice video. So with your method using the bottle what do you do next?

Hi, what would happen if your air layer cuts were further apart, To create a longer deeper rootball ? Would this excellerate the growth since the rootball is 3 inches long instead of 1 inch long ?

Is it a good idea to air layer a persimmon while the tree is still dormant or do I need to wait until the tree is actively growing? Thanks a lot!!

Ah, the rooting hormone. I never did that part before. 👊