donkey
Mame
I've been thinking about trying out air layering for a while now and have been looking for branches which have a pleasing shape already and have noticed that some side twigs on the branches of a lot of adolescent trees look rather like the starting trunk lines of a shohin sized tree.( i now see these small tree's on branches and in my head all the time)
So my theory if i cut all other growth off of said branch would more growth energy go into the piece left on ?
maybe remove some neighboring branches ?
Then if left for a year or two whilst training it on the branch ?
and finally when air layering peel the bark on either side of shohin on branch but only 2/3 around circumference of branch to get good root spread ?
then cut off branch section with rooted shohin and plant ?
which would then give the illusion of a very small tree growing on a very small log ?
could this work ???
So my theory if i cut all other growth off of said branch would more growth energy go into the piece left on ?
maybe remove some neighboring branches ?
Then if left for a year or two whilst training it on the branch ?
and finally when air layering peel the bark on either side of shohin on branch but only 2/3 around circumference of branch to get good root spread ?
then cut off branch section with rooted shohin and plant ?
which would then give the illusion of a very small tree growing on a very small log ?
could this work ???