I set up an airlayer on a himi shara/stewartia somewhat late in the season. I have checked it recently and there is only one root. The rest of the cut seems to want to heal over. It is all callused. Last time I had one like this, I trimmed the callused part off, but the plant did not agree with what I wanted it to do and kept trying to heal over.


Should I risk taking the airlayer off and hoping it will thrive in spring, leave it as is and start over in spring?

I live in zone nine. Leaves are turning ad drooping, but we will not have a hard frost until late January.

Kits


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Kitsune:

I would let it go until Spring. At that time, widen the area and dust it with rooting hormone.

Cordially,

Michael

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From: Kitsune Miko <kits [at] PACBELL.NET>
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Subject: [IBC] airlayer question


I set up an airlayer on a himi shara/stewartia somewhat late in the season. I
have checked it recently and there is only one root. The rest of the cut seems
to want to heal over. It is all callused. Last time I had one like this, I
trimmed the callused part off, but the plant did not agree with what I wanted it
to do and kept trying to heal over.


Should I risk taking the airlayer off and hoping it will thrive in spring, leave
it as is and start over in spring?

I live in zone nine. Leaves are turning ad drooping, but we will not have a
hard frost until late January.

Kits


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Anne Lamott

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My experience with reluctant airlayers is that it is usually better to
insulate them and leave them on through the winter. The only one that ever
survived when removed with one root, still has but one root and is damnably
ugly tree!

I've got several that rooted strongly, from a big callus, in their second
season. If the callus is so big that it might bridge the gap and heal over,
then I'd cut away some more bark below it and leave the callus intact.

Good luck

Kev Bailey
N Wales, UK, Zone 9



>From: Kitsune Miko <kits [at] PACBELL.NET>
>Reply-To: Kitsune Miko <kits [at] PACBELL.NET>
>To: BONSAI [at] HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
>Subject: [IBC] airlayer question
>Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:07:00 -0700
>
>I set up an airlayer on a himi shara/stewartia somewhat late in the season.
> I have checked it recently and there is only one root. The rest of the
>cut seems to want to heal over. It is all callused. Last time I had one
>like this, I trimmed the callused part off, but the plant did not agree
>with what I wanted it to do and kept trying to heal over.
>
>
>Should I risk taking the airlayer off and hoping it will thrive in spring,
>leave it as is and start over in spring?
>
>I live in zone nine. Leaves are turning ad drooping, but we will not have
>a hard frost until late January.
>
>Kits
>
>
>****
>"Expectations are resentments under construction."
>
>Anne Lamott
>
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