Air layering to-do list for 2020

Tulsabonsigh

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1) Japanese maple
2) 100 year old ERC juniper
3) sycamore

anybody wanna post their list for this year?
 

Colorado Josh

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Boxelder
Siberian Elm (because why not)
Mountain Maple
Tamarisk
Ficus Toolittle

All of these grow prolifically in my environment, except for the ficus.
 

Tulsabonsigh

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Boxelder
Siberian Elm (because why not)
Mountain Maple
Tamarisk
Ficus Toolittle

All of these grow prolifically in my environment, except for the ficus.

I’m digging up a decent sized Siberian elm. More for practice than anything.
 

Wires_Guy_wires

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Juniper var. Blaauw. A lot of them.
Might do scopulorum to get rid of the telephone pole.
Juniperus phoenicea if the need arises.
 

cbroad

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Ugh... Too many... Been trying to get some of these done for a couple years now...

2 amurs
1 trident
2 winged elms
At least 2 ficus
At least 2 different j.m.
At least 1 crape
And I'm sure I'm missing some...
 

keri-wms

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Juniper var. Blaauw. A lot of them.

I bought a Blaauw Juniper (photo) partly thinking “cuttings galore” then read they are really tough to root and tend to be grafted instead....so might be air layering as well! I can’t even get Itoigawa to root. (but I suspect I need to take bigger cuttings/layers).

Also layering:
- Palmatum: Shishigashira, Mikawa Yatsabusa, Arakawa, Deshojo, Shin Deshojo, Beni Maiko
- Tridents a plenty!
- Oak
- Hawthorn
- San Jose juniper possibly
- European and Korean Hornbeam
- Zelkova
 

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AlainK

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The list would be too long, but :

  • Ginkgo biloba
  • Gingko biloba 'Saratoga'
  • Metasequoia glyptostroboides
  • Various Japanese maples
  • etc.
 
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Wires_Guy_wires

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I bought a Blaauw Juniper (photo) partly thinking “cuttings galore” then read they are really tough to root and tend to be grafted instead....so might be air layering as well! I can’t even get Itoigawa to root. (but I suspect I need to take bigger cuttings/layers).

Also layering:
- Palmatum: Shishigashira, Mikawa Yatsabusa, Arakawa, Deshojo, Shin Deshojo, Beni Maiko
- Tridents a plenty!
- Oak
- Hawthorn
- San Jose juniper possibly
- European and Korean Hornbeam
- Zelkova
All my blaauws originate from cuttings and I see callus on my winter clippings, so I guess they're as easy as any juniper. Just keep trying! My first itoigawa cuttings failed too.
 

keri-wms

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All my blaauws originate from cuttings and I see callus on my winter clippings, so I guess they're as easy as any juniper. Just keep trying! My first itoigawa cuttings failed too.

Good stuff, will do!!! :)
 

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My Blauws are starting to show green tips. Good promise roots will follow in spring.

Layering a bunch of maples, nishiki-gawa, arakawa and deshojo
 

Rjoyce

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I have about 20 crabapple sections marked.
Maybe one or 2 native elms (American?).
Possibly a crepe myrtle.
I should probably stop there before my wife freaks out. 😃



But I may do a quaking(?) aspen as well. 🤫
 

AJL

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Ive got my eye on some twisted gnarly old red crabapples on the neighbours land- trouble is the best shaped branches are 20 foot off the ground ....🧗‍♂️
 

Drew B

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*crabapples
*plum
*camellia
*a wild nasty (don't know what it is, but's on my property)
*hackberry
 

It's Kev

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sooo, did my air layer back in Feb, can't see roots yet, and the top of the branch didnt die
do i just wait longer or did i screw up and my gap got breached?
can i just open up and take a look at the cut site?
 

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can i just open up and take a look at the cut site?
of course you can
do it carefully in case there are the tender beginnings of roots, but even if you're a brute about it, new roots will sprout
it is far better to make sure now that it isn't bridged than to wait to the end of the season to find out that it was bridged
 
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