air layering hinoki cypress?

discusmike

Has anyone had success air layering hinoki cypress?was thinking of trying one,but not sure if its difficult,also which is the best time of year to layer cypress?now,id suppose?should i do a complete ring bark?Thanks for any help.

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ElGringo

I did one with a lawson's cypress (C. lawsonii), I did a complete ringbark on a piece which was growing very strongly, dusted w/ rooting hormone and wrapped in damp shagnum moss. I did mine in the late summer; it grew roots within about 3 weeks. However, I did get slight dieback on the branches, although I made sure the moss was always damp. Perhaps I did it too late in the year, it was just an experiment. Unfortunately, I had to get rid of it as I was running out of space. You will probably have to experiment as well!

Chamaecyparis tend grow roots quite readily, as you will see with those multi-trunked garden specimens whose branches come into contact with the ground, near the base of the tree.

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discusmike

Thanks Elgringo,i see what you mean,im going threw the root ball as we speak and its got branches growing out of the dirt everywhere.

Sailor_Jerry

I didn't realize that hinoki would put roots out so readily.

I've got a garden center find that I ran across a little over a year ago. It was in a ten inch plastic pot which had apparently fallen over at some point. The trunk had naturally begun to grow vertically, resulting in a pretty neat profile with some decent movement.

I've got it in a big terra cotta pot with about six inches of topsoil under it for the time being, and another eight inches or so of gravel under that.

I've been trying to decide what to do with it, but hearing about the propensity for root growth makes me look forward to working on it this summer.

Is that to say, by the way, that you can encourage aerial roots?