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! 🤞🏼

You are so informative I feel like I’m in school when I’m watching your channel

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)

agree fully, good tutorial

Nice tutorial Jerome. Thanks.

Great information as always Jerome. I love the idea of using the pods. I have never seen those before.

Great tutorial..👍

Well explained Jerome easy and clear 👍👍🇵🇷

Educatif👍👍

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?

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 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.

Nice

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.

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?

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"

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.

I’m in zone 9b, when’s a good time to start on a juniper?

Does this apply to conifers as well when it comes to starting in early spring?

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!

Should we protect our harvested air layerings more this winter? Ex:Japanese maples

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...

What kinda soil do you use?

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!

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

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.)

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.

Great. Let us know the results when you harvest your air layers.

This may be a silly question, but why is it recommended to wear disposable gloves when handling moss and soil/ dirt? Thank you.

Can I graft a Japanese maple to a Mimosa tree?

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.

Gloves?. We are working with soil and plants.. not performing a medical procedure.. should we use face masks too?

The problem with the plastic domes you used. They are only good for straight trunks. Not if the tree has a bend 🇿🇦

Wait what he didn't use a rooting hormone?

Those black spheres are actually not good because they're not air tight so your media will dry out.