Sweetgum Airlayer attempt

[Darth Masiah]

5/16/19

 

[cbroad]

Good luck with it! There's a pretty recent thread with someone asking about this and a few people saying it's pretty difficult.

Did you remember to scrape the sapwood off after peeling off the cambium?

Keep us posted with your results!

 

[Darth Masiah]

Good luck with it! There's a pretty recent thread with someone asking about this and a few people saying it's pretty difficult.

Did you remember to scrape the sapwood off after peeling off the cambium?

Keep us posted with your results!

thanks. i did see that thread. i barely scraped the sapwood, but i think the wire girdle should be enough.

 

[Darth Masiah]

6/11/19

 

[cbroad]

wire girdle should be enough

Ahhh, I missed that

 

[cbroad]

Missed the date too... Callus looking good!

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Did you remember to scrape the sapwood off after peeling off the cambium?

You want to keep the sapwood

The Science of Air-Layering

 

[Darth Masiah]

6/18/19
we have rootage!


the tree decided to shoot a new leader from under the lower girdle spot. another sign that its through dealing with its upper half im guessing.




i could use some opinions on when a good time to reduce this 8'+ high trunk would be.
are sweetgums fine with a major trunk chop at collection time?

 

[sorce]

That's a good spot to layer. Nice technique.

I would chop it in a month or so and leave it till next year for removal.

You probly can get away with a chop and removal this year....but it'll set you back uneccessarily.

Sorce

 

[Darth Masiah]

I would chop it in a month or so and leave it till next year for removal.

You probly can get away with a chop and removal this year....but it'll set you back uneccessarily.

unfortunately im going to have to collect it at the end of the month and hope for the best since im leaving the state soon.

 

[Darth Masiah]

8/10/19
the new job fell through so it looks like im not moving.
after i chopped this guy back last month it really started taking off. no roots in sight so i was thinking of cutting back the callus a little. not sure if i should just wait till spring.

 

[ctravisc]

Any updates on this?

 

[Darth Masiah]

Any updates on this?

it put out two hair thin roots, callused up some more, and just continued growing like i never did anything to it. I'm leaving sweetgum alone.

 

[Parrot10110]

How is it going now?

 

[Darth Masiah]

How is it going now?

it was a fail.

 

[Parrot10110]

That is sad, it looked promising though, I plan to airlayer some next spring, but I think I should give up since so far nobody has succeed on this.

 

[Darth Masiah]

That is sad, it looked promising though, I plan to airlayer some next spring, but I think I should give up since so far nobody has succeed on this.

yeah, I'd try something else and just forget about sweetgum.

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Wulfskaar]

So... did you not cut deeply enough into the wood? Or is sweetgum just not doing air layers?

 

[Crazy Diamond]

Re-do it!!! You dont let that tree get away and mock on you