Not every species will air layer, in this video I explain which are most likely to be successful. More great stuff can be found at www.herons.co.uk facebook @herons.bonsai twitter @heronsbonsai instagram herons_bonsai
I have an old pear tree that has been in my family for generations. Even my grandfather remembers it being old when he was a kid. I’m going to try and air layer one of its branches to preserve the tree. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the video, I’m now going to give air layering some of my Japanese Maples a go. What would also be really good to see is a video on grafting and cutting techniques if that’s possible 🙏
I've been creeping around (as my wife says) begging our neighbors for their trees and wondering how I can air layer other people's trees with out them even realizing it. I just started a few years ago. I recently found courage to trim and wire my first tree. I used a wire hanger. Can't wait to wire my next tree with some real wire. And I got some more Hawaiian shirts. Ha ha. Viva bonsai.
@@masterroshi5573 haha you should know if he dont kill them he will eventually have something nice. look at american native trees. they are finally showing potential over here just frustrating
I'm going to try some air layering on my wild cherry trees. They grow like weeds and are almost impossible to kill. That's a rule of thumb I've been using for air layering, if it grows like a weed and is hard to kill, it will probably air layer. Great video, thanks!
Hi Peter,I have just removed an air layer from a black pine, using the same technique that I learnt from your videos. Very successful layer with a lot of roots. Removing successful air layerings is so much fun. I did one on my magnolia tree and that failed. Do you have any tricks or tips for magnolia layering?
The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation by Michael A. Dirr is an excellent source. It does not include air layering for each species but does mention which trees including some species can be propagated by various methods including cuttings. This is an excellent reference for many many trees and can save hours of frustration and increase success rate dramatically when it comes to propagation
I'm really glad to know that crepe myrtle trees can be air layered. I never tried because the trunk appears like the outer bark layer wouldn't strip away easily. But, I'll have to give it a shot.
I have an Italian plum tree I am trying to air layer, it's been about a month, I have about 7 trees and they have some incredible branches with incredible motion, it will be exciting if it works.
Is there a preferred time to start an airlayer such as early spring or will any time of year yield in lost situations? Thank you for your time and effort. 🥃cheers🍻
Good afternoon, I am a biologist living in FL with degree from UGA. I do some air layering mainly trees I am using for visual screen. You have reiterated the conventional wisdom that pine trees cannot be air layered. I was thinking that it may be due to the pine sap creating hard resin "clots" thereby preventing the roots from emerging from the cambium. What if you prepared the sphagnum moss by mixing with turpentine instead of water? It is natural to pine trees and would serve as a resin solvent to prevent sap from hardening at the site of the cut. I am trying it.
Excellent video sir. Cud u please make a video on how to reduce the leaf size of trees having genetically large leaves such as Terminalia Catappa or any large leafed trees for bonsai purpose.
Hello Peter, great videos! I wanted to know if it was possible to create a Sakura (Prunus Serrulata) bonsai? If so, could you show us some? Kind regards Nick
That's just one type of _sakura._ The most commonly used type in Japan is probably the _somei-yoshino_ (Prunus Cerasus ×yedoensis (Matsum.) Masam. & Suzuki 'Somei-yoshino'). It's planted around the imperial palace in Tokyo for example. Anyways, I'd also be happy to see videos about e.g. cherry trees, especially the Japanese ones.
I rooted a JBP cutting, had it for 3 years, sadly it died this winter... I used vermiculite, had the pot inside a large Tupperware storage container and kept damp gravel in the bottom for moisture, with a piece of glass for a lid. Kept in shade with indirect sunlight.
My mother in Laws previous neighbours have an amazing blue atlas cedar tree in their garden. Its absolutly wonderfull. Do you have any idea if this will airlayer?
Sir, I have a couple sick trees and would like to use your sphagnum moss technique to save them but would like to know how much sphagnum moss use and for how long? Thank you again for all your info.
Mugo pines is actually extremely easy to air layer, almost as easy as maple. It takes two years tho and the moss NEEDS to be removed asap, the tree must be absolutely rock solid in its contained and watered three times per day in a shady place for 2-3 months
I have a Japanese Quince that I want to air layer. What technique would be most likely to succeed in Ontario Canada? Fully band the trunk and use root hormone and sphagnum moss, or partial band with hormone and sphagnum, or another method? Thanks! Very informative video.
Peter Thank you so much. ? I would like to air layer my awesome wisteria so i can take it with me when I move, but will i ever be able to get a small leaf size on a wisteria ? Would love to bonsai the cutting if that makes sense Thanks in advance Cheers
Hi there thank you for your video, I have a question about attempting to air layering a pine, do u think it could work if I took some young saplings with their roots of the same variety of pine and attempted to graft maybe 4 of them to the area of the air layering and just continued with the air layering as usual with the sphagnum moss, the only difference is that there will be the attempted grafts within the air layering moss ball, I may attempt this next spring, just wondering if you have ever tried it? Thank you
I have a champion Japanese Stewartia in my front yard. My brother is an avid bonsai lover and I would love to hive him a gift to add to his collection and maybe also create one for myself as well. I am new to this so not sure if air layering stewartia is possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Can we see more of your Crepe Myrtle? I'm curious how to air layer a tree like that. I assumed it would be impossible because the bark falls off of it.
I need to cut a large branch of a black pine. I want to use it to propagate. How can I propogate it? As you said air layering pines are not effective. What method can i use?
@@peterchan3100 If you try it again here is a trick, after removing the cambium, remove a little bit of the wood too and then for sure let it grow freely and it will happen :)
What about a Spruce/Picea Glauca? My guess is no but I have a huge one that it gorgeous at the top but good only for a bonsai attempt at the bottom (fence facing side has no growth). Would like to save the top if possible.
@@peterchan3100 Wow thanks, I will definitely be doing mine soon then! A shame I haven't tried taking cuttings with the branches I've removed so far - my Yew didn't take so I've been assuming evergreen are too tricky to root.
hello Peter, I am in S. Florida, USDA zone 10. when would be the best time to air layer Juniper? Also would substituting Sphagnum moss for soil speed up root over rock?
Hello everyone, if i make an air layering now in September, can i leave it for spring in Sweden or will the roots die on the tree when 2-3 months of winter frost come?
In one of my bonsai books I found a special air layering method for conifers. I‘ll try to explain it: wrap copper wire arond the tree (really hard) then put moss around the trunk and cover it with plastic as known. That‘s all. (I haven‘t tried it yet) I hope I could help you :)
Hi, I watch many of your videos about air layering. It seems you make so many air-layering of Japanese Maples. I try air layering them using your method, but mines just produce callus only without root after 9-10 weeks now. A couple are even more than a year. Could you please advise? (Should I redo the air layer or keep waiting?)
Do the roots grow from above where you make the incision through the cambian? Like through the bark right above it?Or do the roots come through the white part where you made your cut? I have tried multiple air layers and have failed. I started a dwarf black olive and haven’t seen any roots after two months. Thanks
there seems to be several succefull attempts to grow pine by cuttings, after i searched on youtube term "pine cutting" but i wonder how many of them in the result is real attempts.
@@peterchan3100 Thank you - I have time to try it. I get confused about when is the right time of year to perform which tasks for what species and why. I wish I could find a callendar with all that info in it. I think I will buy your book.
We had a lot of success from a Wysteria that was broken in half when bulldozed over in a field near out house. The soil was very fertile and it came back with a vengeance. We transplanted the living half of the plant to our side garden and within ten years, the surviving portion had a base the size of a large coffee can and it lifted the 4" concrete patio! I'm not sure if the new owners of the house kept the trellis, but if it has food and water those things are happy to grow. Could be fun bonsai to grow over a stone!
1:14 I gotta point out that the pine has no flowers, but cones. Male cones or pollen cones. Pines aren't actually a member of the flowering plants (angiosperms) they are gymnosperms. I have an air layer I took of a small Japanese maple. It was a grafted maple from nursery stock, and It was air layered to grow out the rootstock and scion plants as separate bonsai. They are both very immature, not bonsai yet but they are still growing strong!
@@peterchan3100 Nope. No true flowers. The cones they produce are analogous to flowers though, they are a conifer's equivalent of a flower. Might seem a bit pedantic, since they both serve the same purpose, for plant reproduction, but it has to do with how botanists classify these plants and their structures. homeguides.sfgate.com/difference-between-conebearing-plants-fruitbearing-plants-60937.html
Can anyone speak to airlayering prunus species to remove graft scars? Would this compromise the health of tree by growing then on a potentially inferior root stock?
peter chan but will that compromise the health of the plant? I know in horticulture most root stocks are selected for disease resistance/ hardiness. Or does that not matter because bonsai are being kept in a manipulated environment?
I'm trying to grow a American Maple bonsai atm, I know they say it's impossible to do, but I think it would be cool to have all my Japanese and get Americans to go. So far the Sapling is doing great and is growing. :)
when he speaks about air layering in nature.... Vine maples propagate in nature by ground layering almost 99% of the time. they grow under conifers, and when the conifers fall on them and knock them over, the fallen vine maples easily root into the ground from the trunk or any branch. Ive seen a large fallen douglas fir that had knocked over at least 20 or 30 vine maples and they were all growing prolifically by layering in the dead wood of the forest floor. Because of this it is dead easy to air layer this species.
