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Sapling
I have my eye on a thick branch of friend’s acer palmatum that I’d like to air layer in the spring. I’ve seen 2 distinct techniques used for to hold the medium for roots to grow.
A. Slip a pot or other container around the trunk, tie it up and fill with soil/sphagnum moss. I see Walter Pall is a big fan of this.
B. Wrap wet sphagnum moss around the trunk and wrap with plastic. So called “bag-n-sphag”.
Which do you prefer? And for method A, do you need drainage holes in the pot? Do you need to water regularly and/or fertilize?
I did some searching here on BN but couldn’t find a thread that compared the two techniques.
A. Slip a pot or other container around the trunk, tie it up and fill with soil/sphagnum moss. I see Walter Pall is a big fan of this.
B. Wrap wet sphagnum moss around the trunk and wrap with plastic. So called “bag-n-sphag”.
Which do you prefer? And for method A, do you need drainage holes in the pot? Do you need to water regularly and/or fertilize?
I did some searching here on BN but couldn’t find a thread that compared the two techniques.