mojo

Hi folks,

About a month ago I finally managed to aquire some real 'bonsai time' (ie the wife and my 14month old daughter went to visit the mother-in-law for a couple of days....FREEDOM!) during this time I made my 1st attempts at airlayering some branches on some trees in my garden.

Questions as follows:

Birch: I've made some layers on a couple of the branches - but I notice that some of the leaves have turned/turning yellow. Is this normal or are they on the way out?
Is there something I should be doing? I've read in some books that you should water & keep the spagnum moist. Others seem to infer that watering was unecessary as the plastic would retain sufficient moisture....?

Hawthorn: I set up one airlayer on an 1 inch thick branch. After doing this I noticed that layering the tip of the branch off would also provide some nice raw material. Question is - can I layer twice on the same branch? or should I wait for the 1st one to succeed (fingers crossed!). So far this branch seems to be remaining healthy, and theres a reasoanble amount of foliage between the two possible layers. So I don't want to undermine the 1st.

I also guess I'm running out of time....before autumn?


Many thanks

mojo

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