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29-Aug-2004
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Firethorn Airlayer
Earlier this year I discovered a branch with a nice curve in a firethorn shrub in my garden. I decided to airlayer it. I made the airlayer in may.
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29-Aug-2004
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A close up of the airlayer :
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29-Aug-2004
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Last week we returned from a camping trip and I checked my airlayer. There were lots of roots so I decided to seperate it from the mother plant :
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29-Aug-2004
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I sawed through the trunk just beneath the layer. I did not touch the new roots at all and put it straight in a container :
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29-Aug-2004
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Detail of the trunk. A large part of the curve is under the soil. Now I will leave it alone for at least a year and hope for the best.
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29-Aug-2004
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You better give it a haircut, I don't think those few roots will support all that greenery.
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29-Aug-2004
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If all goes well I think I will chop it around here and make a shohin. We'll see in a year or so.
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29-Aug-2004
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Hi Stix,
pfew you're fast ! All this foliage has been fed by the air layer for the past months. In fact there has been a lot of new growth since I made the airlayer. I don't see why it can't do it now... René |
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29-Aug-2004
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Great thread Rene, Im curious as to what soil you used on the layer and how in the world you set that thing up on a horizontal branch! I have the biggest trouble getting the peat to stay on while i try to wrap it with plastic.
Nice fat trunk you got there, mine is about a quater of the size. I think ill put it in the ground now! -Kevin
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It's the phloem that is completely interrupted. The xylem usually only partially. The wood within the girdled trunk still translocates water quite a bit. You probably found that it was wet when you cut through it and not bone dry, right? So, I would trim it too, and remove at least 50% of the current foliage. Regards, Matt
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