#1: [IBC] Air layering question for my hot weather friends
Posted on 2005-08-07 03:21:27 by tim
Greetings All,
I've been off list for awhile but am back now. I started an air layer early
in the spring on a Japanese maple. It now has at the air layer site more
than enough roots to support the tree, and it has put out a new flush of
growth in the last three weeks. Question is... should I wait until Fall or
next Spring to chop off the bottom of the tree? Or can I do it now? I'm in
Dallas and will be enjoying (?) 99+/- degree temps for the next few weeks--
assuming it doesn't get hot!
Blessings,
Tim Ahlen
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#2: Re: [IBC] Air layering question for my hot weather friends
Posted on 2005-08-07 06:34:16 by Scooter the mighty
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> Greetings All,
>
> I've been off list for awhile but am back now. I started an air layer
> early
> in the spring on a Japanese maple. It now has at the air layer site more
> than enough roots to support the tree, and it has put out a new flush of
> growth in the last three weeks. Question is... should I wait until Fall
> or
> next Spring to chop off the bottom of the tree? Or can I do it now? I'm
> in
> Dallas and will be enjoying (?) 99+/- degree temps for the next few
> weeks--
> assuming it doesn't get hot!
>
> Blessings,
>
> Tim Ahlen
>
I'm just a rookie at this myself, but I'd wait until the fall. I haven't
had great luck planting stuff in the middle of summer, and it doesn't get
anywhere near that hot where I live.
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#3: Re: [IBC] Air layering question for my hot weather friends
Posted on 2005-08-07 13:56:52 by jklewis
Tim Ahlen wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I've been off list for awhile but am back now. I started an air layer early
> in the spring on a Japanese maple. It now has at the air layer site more
> than enough roots to support the tree, and it has put out a new flush of
> growth in the last three weeks. Question is... should I wait until Fall or
> next Spring to chop off the bottom of the tree? Or can I do it now? I'm in
> Dallas and will be enjoying (?) 99+/- degree temps for the next few weeks--
> assuming it doesn't get hot!
>
>
If you layer has been doing OK on the tree, I suspect it
will do OK cut off, too -- assuming as you say that there
are a LOT of roots. They should fill the plastic wrap or pot.
Be careful not to break any tender roots when you remove the
plastic or pot. I never try to remove the spaghnum, but
plant it spaghnum and all in a largish shallow pot, tie it
in carefully, then sit it in a shady spot (in your case into
early fall, I suspect. A bit of morning sun probably would
be a benefit.
I'm surprised though that Japanese maples do well in Dallas.
Jim Lewis - jklewis@nettally.com - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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