oh god this reminds me of my youngest bother when he was a toddler. My family just bought some land to plant cherry trees and while trimming branches, my bro grab a branch and planted it in our front yard and said this is his tree. Did not expect it to grown into a massive cherry tree, which my dad still trims because it produced fruit.
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@@ImALefty08 Yeah I wasn't complaining about the shortcut. This is what the video was all about 😅 what I meant was ... that you will not ever have to wait years for having such a tiny tree. We planted our own tree and after years it was waaay bigger than this branch 🤣
I thought you could do this with all trees? Cut off a branch that has at least one leaf and then plant it in the ground and as long as it does not lose that leaf soon then it will grow into a tree. If im wrong then I need to learn more about trees.
@@heh650 depends on the plant and the methods. Some plants like willows get cut by beavers, broken off, and just inevitably find themselves in mud so it works out to put down roots. Plants use hormones to incite roots to grow, so most people will take advantage of that and other tricks for success
also, willows in particular have such a strong growth drive that their hormones are used to propagate other trees. ^^; they're just.... really determined to spread and thankfully, we can use that to *prevent* them from taking over
Air layering is really good for fruit trees that generally take a few years to start producing fruit. By air layering a mature tree you will be able to produce fruit without the wait
@@Joseph-MullinsLayering is when you induce a plant to root from one of its stems. Take a flexible stem and bend it down to the ground. Scrape the stem where it touches soil and anchor it down with a stone. With luck, roots will emerge from the stem and into the soil. When it is well established you can sever it from the mother plant. Air-layering does the same thing, except you bring the soil to the stem instead of bending the stem down to the soil.
Fun Fact i just learned during a farming course: (If i'm not mistaken, its a willow) These trees are so full of growth hormones, that you can even use a 20-30cm long twig and put it in the ground. It will sprout roots and continues to grow. Other uses are making a "Root growth booster" with water, where tons of willow branches have been soaked in. All the hormones will go into the water and aid the plants which get watered with it.
Yes thats right! I grew up on a farm and we used them for live fences so we would just cut hundred of 2 or 3 foot lengths and stick them in the ground and they would grow in no time.
For those that want to look into it, this is called air layering. Layering can also be done on the ground by pulling a low branch down to the ground, and covering it with dirt or compost.
@@kslmt I don't know about all trees, but it works with all of the plants I've tried it on. Some plants will only root at the node, and some plants will root anywhere along the branch.
@HoangNguyen-fm6nd if it has a lignified exterior, then yes, the cambium will have to be exposed as far as I know. I haven't done a lot of work with trees, but especially not propagating them. So I apologize if I'm incorrect.
With willows, you can just stick a twig directly into soil and it will grow. I once picked up an old twig that was already dried yellow. Put it in a glass of water and it still shot out some roots and started growing.
Came here to say this. With almost any tree/bush in the willow family you can literally just jam a branch in the ground and it’ll grow. It’s quite an adaptive trait for stream side plants as they effectively clone themselves every time there’s a windstorm.
I love how people on the internet make things harder than they have to be, film it like they’re doing something never before seen and people praise them for it. It’s like making a taco with 8 extra steps and making a video
You can just put the branch directly in the ground too and it'll root. Just take a hardwood cutting late winter and stick in the ground. The method here may have a slightly higher success rate but it's more involved.
You can buy plastic balls in different sizes that are designed exactly for that, plus they are reusable, no need to waste plastic bags, aluminiumfoil and duct tape for a single air layered cutting...by the way, Air Layering was already practiced by ancient Greeks and Egyptians. Also for anyone interested in a great rooting hormone, Willow water is a traditional method to extract the rooting hormone indolebutyric acid from willow (Salix) trees, which is believed to be present in sufficient quantities to stimulate root growth, the same tree he used in the Video.
Yeap. They grow just by sticking a branch into the ground. My great uncle made a fence made out of fresh willow "posts" it was the rainy season, and after a few months all of the posts started to send out branches.
They really grow roots everywhere. Stick laying on the ground? Roots. Put a stick straight into the ground? Roots. Felled a tree a left it? Roots all along the trunk. Weeping willows are absolutely insane 😅
interesting. the leaves look almost (but not quite) like those from a uke Edit: fun fact i just picked up - weeping willows have been planted along several waterways in southeastern au for erosion control. I'll put the choice down to the root-rich nature of the plant
Salix Otherwise known as Willow, Willow has its own natural rooting hormone you don’t even need to do that to it as you need to do is cut it off and stick it in some moist soil and it will grow roots. This is where aspirin was originally derived from. Last thing you can just boil the bar and make a rooting hormone for other plants as well
My friends dad trims them and puts the trimmings in a 55 gal drum filled about halfways with water. he does this towards the beginning of winter, and come spring all the trimmings have roots and are ready to be planted.
When I was around 10, I was at the cemetery with my mom and dad cleaning my little brothers stone. We would throw away any flowers my mom had placed in the vase and water the grass around his stone. I found a tree branch someone had thrown away and I wanted to plant it. My dad (God rest his soul) helped me and didn't discourage me or say anything. Today, it's grown into a nice tree. Granted, the trees around it are stopping it from growing big, but it's grown ❤️. You don't even have to do this much work, a branch and love is all it takes.
Air layering is a tremendously helpful technique. I have used it to create new mothers from very large cannabis plants. I can't even begin to describe how valuable this technique is when farming large cannabis plants.
This tree propagation technique is called marcotting or air-layering. It can be done to numerous of plant species, not just willow. How it works is that you wound the branch/stem of the plant by scraping some of the bark, and then put some slightly damp soil around it so that roots will grow directly into the soil. Once enough roots have grown, you can cut it off then plant it in a container. You can also use different materials as long as it can hold the soil in place. (Also, transparent plastic tied with thin rope would be helpful so that you can see whether the roots have grown.)
Roots don't grow well unless they are in darkness, that's why the tin foil. But maybe one could wrap it in seran wrap first, then tin foil. Then one could remove the foil to check the roots if needed, but is that necessary?
What is the reason for essentially ringbarking the limb isn't that defeating the purpose of air layering? I'm genuinely curious as wouldn't you need some connection to the main tree to stay healthy and alive otherwise just cut the limb and propagate it in a pot.
Oh my God are you serious how dense and ignorant are they that's horrible bro for real oh my God can't even study horticulture anymore without somebody thinking something stupid
It’s called “air layering”.Also the Willow tree produces Salicylic acid .. where the ingredient for “aspirin” and many acne medications comes from. If you take pencil sized new branches and burn them or bake on high in the oven until totally cinders, you can make your own charcoal sticks for artwork sketching. Air layering works especially well on many woody stemmed plants and houseplants if you nick the stem about1/3 in-and do the moss or peat wrap. Give it time to grow roots. (Retired horticulturist here-45+ years)
One time we were trimming willows, and we left the branches on a path for like a week before disposing of them. They'd already started to grow roots. You did 100 times the ammount of work needed.
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I was impressed (without judgments) that many people do not know this method, here in Brazil it is very common, especially if you trim the neighbor's plant that entered your land
in italy it's called "margotta", but for willow is not necessary. Just cut a few branches and throw them away, they will grow new roots without problems.
This has been mentioned to some extent. Many willow species actually spread so easily because they can rely on their broken branches that have been carried away after storms and floods to proceed to sprout roots if they land on appropriate ground. They are prolific pioneers of new and unclaimed soils.
I seem to remember seeing a ton of willow trees when I went down to New Orleans several years back and given the prevalence of oceanic storms and flooding, that helps explain why there were so damn many. Especially like 10-odd years after Hurricane Katrina.
When I was 13 me and my buddy stuffed a bunch of helicopter seed pods down into the middle of a rotten tree stump. Now there is an enormous maple tree 26 years later
Willow will grow in any condition 😂 my boss made a wattle fence from willow and pretty much every single branch sprouted due to the wet weather we had 😂😂😂
Tbh that kind feels like a rude prank for the tree lmfao. "No dude, I promise youre in soil, I promise that's that floor, just grow dude, you'll be fine!".
Thank you, will try this with my blueberry bush, cannot get the shoots I cut to root for nothing after trying for years. It's getting older and don't want to lose this magnificent blueberry plant.
To grow another willow tree: cut off a branch, put the cut end in a bucket of water, wait for roots to develop then dig a hole and plant it. Stake it until it is established and remember to keep it well watered. I watched my mother do it when I was a kid.
I've been landscaping for over 40 years, and I have to give you a lot of credit for the job you did. You really kicked up the potassium in the mixture to get those healthy roots.
@@waso778 It's not grafting, it's called layering, where you take a long branch, pinning it to the ground with a U-shaped piece of wire then burying it with soil. Or, burying it with soil, then placing something heavy enough to keep it in place.
I remember as a kid I used to love eating peaches. One day, I found out how seeds worked and tried to plant a few. Well, two of them grew. My dad moved them from the front yard into the back, and they grew fast. At one point, I remember picking a whole bucket of peaches, and those were the ones I could reach.
@@karatewithelian9014they grow pretty fast, maybe a year or less, I bought a flowering tree and someone had tossed a peach pit into it, didnt bother plucking it out before planting and boom, bountiful peaches.
That is my job. I work in an Orchard. It's funny you find it exciting and are full of happy memories. To me, Its just dreadful pain and suffering full of blood, sweat and tears. One tree is a picnic day but when you got blocks to pick it stops being fun.
I learnt this is elementary science class, the amount of trees I used as experiments... Well let just say my grandma backyard is now full with many fruit trees 😌 good job little me
If I remember correctly you wanna aim for a node for better chances, you kinda did so idk if you know that. Good job! Also there's rooting hormones for the more stubborn instances.
It's a willow most of the time you can get a broken branch to sprout roots just by putting it in a bucket of water, I have found broken branches work better than cut
@@A.B.C.590 Ok, maybe it will, yes. But I bet that this previous procedure increases the chances of success of the new tree, as it has already sprung while still connected to its living stem.
this is so funny, because those willow you cut of a branch and put in the full ground and it will grow, no problem... in the netherlands this is very common just put it in the ground and it will go, this is not needed at all :)
You can do this with more than that... like grapes, snowberry, ninebark, trailing blackberry, thimbelberry, etc hell you don't don't have to do this dumb shit just take a 3 foot cutting and stick a bunch of them in a planters box or even a pot.
DId you know that trees can detect their offspring and siblings near and share nutrients to their family members by releasing them near the roots of their family when they detect that their family members roots are rapidly absorbing nutrients (ie sick or hurt in some way). So if you plant this new tree close to the original, they will look after each other. In an ancient forest a tree in the middle might have a network of routes that let it help a tree at the edge being cut down.
