Airlayering maple and redwood

DeanE

My maples(palmatum) and dawn redwood are breaking bigtime.
The maples will be leafed out in a week or so and the redwood is
covered with new growth all along it's entire length.Question is how long
should I wait before beginning the layering? Untill they are fully leafed out?
Or can I begin sooner? The temps are still in the 30's at night rising to
the sixties during daylight hours.The maples are both forked about
3" up the trunk and I want to layer at the fork so I gain two more trees
as I would eventually be pruning them there anyway. The redwood is
about 7' tall and 3 1/2" at the base so instead of just a trunk chop I
gain a second tree with decent caliper. From what I've read I should
probably wait untill there is enough foliage atop to support the root system.
Am I right on this? Thanks.

Dean

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