Air layering made simple: Free Fruit trees that will produce fast. 

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 RU-vid this guy is my all time favorite science teacher

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

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 !

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

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

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 😊👍🏼🌿

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

Good stuff

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

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.

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

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

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

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

You two are adorable. And the cat lady.

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.

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

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

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

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

Thanks for showing a simple method ! !

That's really cool way to propagate new plants!

thanks for the video! Gonna try the bottle variation.

Thank for sharing your knowledge and expertise! Much appreciate 🙏

Great job! Loved the David the Good bit.😁

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

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

Good Job, thanks for sharing

Nice weed plants 👍🏽👋

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

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

Good informative sharing 👍

Very interesting. Keep us in the success of it.

Lovely place full.of greens and trees...

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

You layered your blueberries into buckets - great idea!

Great video 👍🏽 Thanks for sharing

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

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

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

This is a great idea!👍🏼

So simple I love it thank you so much

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.

I love your son doing this with you! xo

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

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

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

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

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

good info mark best of luck with those layers!!

Real gems here

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.

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

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.

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

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

Great job 👍

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 .

I feel cheated. Where are the results?

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

Extremely helpful. Thank Yooouuu 👍🏼.

I sure enjoy learning from you!!!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!!

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!

Love it I’m subbed

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

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

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

Good Idea!!!!!

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 👍👍

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

6:11 That's some impressive voice control

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

Great video man

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.

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

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

Nice

Update would be great

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.

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

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.

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.

Air layering is the best way to get a tree that produces fruit in one year….air layering is a very simple method specially if you are using certain items to make it easy like sandwich baggies or freezer bags depending on the size of the branch you want to air layer…no plastic bottles!!! The biggest problem is finding trees to air layer…what is the point of air layering a tree if you have it already the idea is to acquire new trees, homesteading is bull$hit just like trump is bull$hit…here in California there are tons I mean tons of fruit and vegetables at such a cheap prices you can’t beat them (try to beat 2pounds of tomatoes for $.99 cents) so if you get a new tree is not to get more food it is only to make your surroundings look prettier….thank you for sharing information…

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.

I like this method better than the plastic bag method.

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

Don't waste plastic wrap, get the plastic grocery bags and use them. You have 100's of the damn things in your pantry I'm sure. You can use scissors to cut strips of the grocery bag to use as "string or rope" to tie up the ends of the bag after you wrap the bottle.

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