I have had a box of twelve of these for several months and am so happy to have found the video the tells me how they actually work. Also I want to say, I find your whole attitude just delightful. Thank you so much for the video.

I love how excited you are in this video! It reminds me of my excitement the first time I successfully propped a plant and I kept feeling like "I AM A PLANT WIZARD!!!" Best of luck with all of your plants!!

You are the reason I bought my pods, they work far better than my old method.

I love your enthusiasm you remind me of me

Very detailed. I asked for an apple and you gave me the whole darn tree, THANK YOU, well worth the watch. 😘😂

I recently air layered 30 Vitex from 3 shrubs. I also only waited a month. I had nice footballs on 27 of the 30. I potted them. After 4 months, the root system was developed enough for me to plant. I now have a nice Vitex hedge started along my back fence to eventually block out a nosey neighbor.

Thank you for this video! It was great watching you do it b/c in several videos, the people make these super precise cuts that to me looks like it's a waste of time being *that* precise. Your video shows you really don't have to have the perfect cuts and scrape layers.

Good to see nice results! Exciting to see them do so well! My cuttings methods have had mixed results, so I’m trying the pods this year. I need some rows of shrubs, pricey when you need a hedge or two’s worth of them. They do say to wet the soil or mixture (like coconut coir, or peat moss…which is flammable, fyi, people, don’t use peat moss to mix with potting soil (your potting soil may already have it in there, too, check your label), in a planter or bed and pop an incense stick in it, that’s how I learned it’s flammable, it caught fire when it burned low…I guess a cigarette butt would also catch fire, so…it’s good to know…or add sphagnum or orchid moss, vermiculite, etc. to the soil to make it easier for the roots to form, and using rooting hormone will improve the results. They do say to water it or keep it damp, a turkey baster would be perfect to easily get some aimed just in the top, the pods are funneled to allow for watering…the balls have the ability to drain excess moisture, so with all those instructions, it’s good to see them work without all the recommendations. Just go for it and stop spending a fortune on plants! I love that you showed everyone we don’t have to follow every little suggested detail to have great success! Plants want to grow and don’t know they have so many rules to follow. 😊 Wish I’d known about them 5 years ago, I’d have some good shrubs and fruit trees going by now! Better late than never! This is very encouraging, cuttings require much more work and have hit and miss results. I started a few yesterday, did what is usually a “dude mistake” and went ahead to try them without really doing my homework on whether to pack the dirt tightly or not, stuff like that. Most didn’t need a zip tie (they have the thin, long buckle now, but I did break the first one just a little, so zip tie for sure), I used one on a couple, just the upper corner on the unhinged side. I learned to leave thorns on roses just below the pod to help make sure it doesn’t slide down, forgot to put on the rooting hormone at first, but know they’ll still root, maybe now I’ll see how much difference it makes when I cut them off. And I made up a mix of some of the ingredients to lighten it all up. Some say to pack the dirt tightly for pressure to help it make more roots, I was thinking it would make it harder, they’d have to fight for space, so I’ll have to research and test that. Guess it would be interesting to test wet/dry, (wet probably most effective there), different mediums and tightly packed vs. not so tightly packed all on one shrub, take notes of which pod is which, and see if there’s a visible difference. Also dark or colored vs. clear ones that let you monitor root growth, how light affects them, since typically roots grow in the dark, under the soil. So many different bits of input. I wanted to say I really enjoyed hearing a familiar accent since I’m out west now, and miss the East Coast. Makes one a little homesick. Great gardening in the Garden State! You’re keeping the reputation up! 😊🌱🌸

Thank you for this video. I’ve never used a rooting ball before but ordered a couple so I needed to know how to use. So happy I found your video because the directions you gave and showed were very simple. Loved seeing the end result also. Thank you again😊

Super successful product for making new plants.. How Exciting! ☺🍃🌿🌱

Just discovered you and subscribed! I've seen these pod but jsut now bought them. Can't wait to get then nd srart using them. LOVE your energy!!

Love your energy!!! I am using these for the first time on my cherry, almond, hazelnut, dogwood and yellow magnolia trees. I will keep everyone posted on the results.

Hi! I'm sure someone will hav mentioned it to u by now, bt, jst in case they haven't, figs r a lot more productive if u restrict the roots, so, if your large fig tree has free space for the roots to grow, it won't fruit quite as much as one that hasn't. That said, where one of the low lying branches of our one rooted itself outside of the concrete box that the tree is planted in, *a lot* of branches formed from it, and fruit abundantly each year 😀!

Thanks for this video. I just got some of the pods and am anxious to try. Your enthusiasm is contagious!

I have pear trees that i air layer like this. But i use ziplock bags a towel and zipties. I've done up to 6 per branch and it works. You should use rooting compound and a tiny bit of aspirin. I'm at 100% success on these and i have made thousands over the years.

In the fall, when the leaves are off the fig tree, cut a 12” chunk off the fig tree and stuff it in a pot of soil or in the ground. Come spring it will leaf out and voilà, new fig tree. It’s literally that easy.

I just bought these! Can't weight to use them right now! As always thank you for your guidance.

Awesome! Love to see that you posted results whether it was good or bad :) love that it came out good

Thank you! I ordered some of these and was wondering how to use them. I’m delighted it only takes about a month too.

I love your enthusiasm! It made my day

i tried air layering for the first time a couple weeks ago and wish i had these! next time

The only downside is that you can’t monitor the root growth unless you cut the zip ties, I used a combo of wrapping the soil in clear plastic bag then used the black pod to protect from sun damage! Happy growing :)

Love your energy! Happy gardening!

I just bought a pack of root ball makers. I've got 4 of them on the hichiya persimmon tree as I am moving and want to take some of this mature old tree with me.

Awesome informative video! You’re adorable to boot! 😍 I’ve never heard of a goomie berry (goomie bears, yes😉) nor a “yawzah” (?) berry either so will look those up! Thank you so much! 👍

Hey that’s so cool! Have you noticed if the new plant is already mature since it was a mature branch? That would save so much time!

I just ordered some and decided to look at some videos to see how to use them beat and I found your video. Thanks for the video your awesome

I am so excited to see how well they work!!! I'm ordering them! Thanks Lisa!

Awesome 😎 I just received some from temu. Can't wait to try it out!

Your excitement is wonderful! I just googled how to use propagation cups to see if I could find any helpful tips and your video popped up. I’m so excited to use these now. I’m hoping to propagate a dogwood tree and a lilac bush. Do you know what the earliest would be that I could try this as both are just beginning to bud out here in Indiana. And I just subscribed, because I love you as a fellow gardener already!

Mahalo for the info. I have a few pods, but haven’t tried until I found your video. Wish these were available sooner. I had a very rare mango tree I would’ve liked to graft. Too bad.

I have ordered a dozen and am excited to try them now! Hope they work as they have for you!

GREAT video! Mahalo nui for sharing. 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

Your energy alone makes this video great. Thank you for the information I will definitely try this. By the way how is that plant now?

Stumbled across your channel while looking for information on Nanking Cherry. I saw that you had a video on these little devices for air layering. I just bought them lsat month but haven't had a chance to use them yet. I hope I have as much success as you did.

They're all over ebay too. I got some direct from china. Most people use coco peat or spaghnum moss. Mine just click together and have a latch to hold them closed. No zip ties needed. In hot climates you DO water them

I just bought a set of these. what a great idea!

This partial scraping will work for some plants. For many you need to scrape all the way around and down to the dead wood.

these pods definitely have improved. i had the "original" (not sure) ones from 2016...and they are almost the same as the current ones. the current ones now have that buckle on the left side. in the past...it was annoying to put it together

the apple tree that I tried, had been broken off at ground level (bears) but then, shoots came up. I put this on 1 of the shoots and it worked great. I did not use enuf soil inside and several didnt work. I also made sure soil was moist when I did it. elderberrys are everywhere in the bush here (northern ontario) so I can guerilla garden, some new plants

Thanks so much for sharing this! You do awesome work! I wonder if a modified pod would work as well? For instance, a mini disposable water bottle with a 1/2" hole at the bottom and cut clamshell style. Then you could hold it together with some reusable fuzzy wire. :)

Be careful of a root graf tree. You'll have different root stock, original root.

OMG! I am so going to do this in the springtime! I've been looking for a way to propagate my blackberry plants. No other method seems to work!

I am surprised you didn't need rooting hormone. Very cool. I know this works on fig trees, but I am guessing it can't work on everything. It might be fun sharing which plants it works on best. Thanks.

hot tip - no need for zip ties, it has plastic tab on the side just bend over

What a great video, cant wait to try this with blue atlas cedar. Thank you.

Just bought some that's awesome!!

Temu also sells these rooting pods (cheaper than Amazon).

Figs LOVE TO BE MESSED WITH. What I mean by this is gently bending the branches down as if they're above you and you're picking off of them them it stimulates growth. And LOVE EPSOM SALTS SPRINKLED AROUND RAIN LINE. Just below the canopy of leaves. I had very old fig trees in our yard. When we moved there. They were not producing very many figs and if they did they were tiny. I started fertilizing them with Epsom salt and a fertilizer spike for fruit trees. Because the branches were a little above my head I would have to walk the branches down gently so not to snap them off. And I noticed year after year when I was doing this the tree actually started to grow again and produced a heavy crop twice a year And to boot they were very sweet. Give it a try you may find that your Fig tree in the ground just needs a little bit of love.

Awesome vidoe

there are a lot of foreign knock offs but the original pods were a made in the USA product.

You've probably realised by now, but the bit of plastic sticking out along the edge is a clip to hold it shut, you just have to bend it over and it clips it together. 🙂

Well done👍

Thank you.

Just wanted to mention you can reuse the zip ties if you put the end of it back through it and then pull it through there are videos on how to do it that I didn't make

Damn no rooting hormone even? Thats cool. I might have to try it

So I can use just pain potting soil and I don't have to water it? Thanks in advance. :)

Thank You so much !!!

Wow

Great video.

i just bought these! but i need to add dirt inside as I didn't do that i only covered the area that was scraped with ALoevera gel.

You should have watered the soil first any way great work looks great

That is amazing!!! How are the Moringas doing? If not successful I plan to buy you a seedling 🌱 or try & use that pod thing on my existing moringa once I get another good branch.

Were you able to get roots on the goumi berry? I know first hand they are hard to root from cutting.

Thank you

Can you brainstorm the timeline with me? Say I'm wanting to sell peach/apple cuttings in the spring- when do a put the ball on, when do I take it off, then do I need to keep the propogated plant inside over the winter?

After you planted your new tree did you cut off the branches? I saw people saying to cut the old leaves off but i wasn't sure what you did...

Rooting powder helps I'm sure

Hi, I want to try this on my hazelnuts. Is it good to do this during fall and should I water it? Thanks

When is a good time of year to airlayer with these

Could you take a cutting from a bush and do it that way or does it have to be connected to the bush?

I don't know what I did wrong but it didn't work on my mango tree branches in Florida

Just did this on my old childhood apple tree. Just used a little Clonex on the inner bark.... FINGERS CROSSED! How often should I add water to the pods? I used peat moss

hey, do we need to mist the soil before air layering or dry soil still work fine?

No soil, wrong ph. Same with peat moss. With spaghmum moss soaked in water day before. Spaghmum moss works better. Six weeks would be better. But larger diameter I would wait the six months and use the plastic and foil method. But for these tiny diameter plants these rooting balls are fine. But hey do what makes you happy. Your excitement is adorable.

several tries b4 I got it rite. but BOY.. did I get it rite?.. full of roots.. elderberry and apple.. 6 weeks. I even tried using a plastic bag (didnt work for me) BUT SEE VIDS ONLINE WHERE IT DOES,

My one question is which direction do you put the pod. On one end there is a clip in the part for the stem. Clip at the top or clip at the bottom. Basically which way up do you use them?

Sorry of I missed it but how long did you leave them on?

Do you leave some bark attached to keep the upper part alive ?

If a plant has a lot of leaves in the way do you just cut them off before you put the ball on?

Do you need to give them water?

Do you have to add water to the pod

Will they work on blueberries? I don’t have fig trees, but I have blueberry bushes, crepe myrtle, azalea, and knockout roses.

Awesome. Was this pod here the 5cm (2inch) or the 8cm (3inch)?

I broke mine trying to open it and not a single video shows how to do this

Do you have to add water to the pod while it's on the mother plant?

I hear Goumi's are a tough nut to crack. Please post your results 🤗

How often does the air layered pod need to be watered after it's in place please?

Wow so how many shrubs/trees/ or plants can come from 1 branch?

Does it need water? Tho

Did you put water?

Will this work on cuttings

Hi, how often do you wanter the pods?

How could you maintain moisture level??

When is the best time to do it?

Thinking to try these on some very good bearing hybrid tomato plants.