Air Layer

[Carpenterb30]

so I got this little green Japanese maple for a good buy. I didn't like the height. It was almost 6 feet tall. Very over grown. So I decided to try some air layering. To my delight as Peter Chan would say. Now 1 tree has become 3. About 2 months to get these roots. Any thoughts.

 

[NOZZLE HEAD]

Nice work. I’d chop em low to develop taper after they get established.

Do you have other Japanese maples? Do you know what cultivar it is?

 

[Carpenterb30]

Its when you propagate plants for certain characteristics right. Like air layering branches of a parent plant to clone the same variety. Because I've read that Japanese maples produce different varieties from seed.

 

[ajm55555]

Named varieties are preserved by cloning.
Any plant born from seed has a combination of the genes of the parents and as such is different from both. That's part of evolution. Cloning blocks evolution.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Nice job with the air layering. This is the way to get thicker trunks, take a 6 foot tree and layer it into sections. Well done.

Your seedling is just that, no cultivar name. Unless of course, you go through the trouble to name it. But as long as all divisions ( air layers, clones) are in your back yard, no need to go through the trouble and expense of naming a cultivar.

So to the rest of the world, this is just an Acer palmatum seedling.

 

[sorce]

Next time use a RadialDisk ™.

Nice Purrrrgola!

Sorce