Mame Cascade Elm?

DJSend

BonsaiAl,

I want to start by saying i am a HUGE fan of all oyur trees & write ups. You make it very easy to understand. The only question i have is in regards to the rooting hormone gel you use. I can only find it in powder form around me, can you give me the maker or a good place to find it?

Thanks,
~ jay

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saurak

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node

Got inspired and started doing the same. Seperated my first layer on an elm about a week ago. Used the powder stuff, still the fasted one I ever did.

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jeremy_norbury

Al

What about that experimental technique?

Jerry

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Debby

Okay, another dumb question from me perhaps, but I don't understand how you can peel the bark off a tree trunk, plant it deeper and then roots grow from the top part of the tree. I didn't think that the inner wood of the tree carries nutrition. I thought that it was the bark that does that and that would explain why girdling a tree will be the end of it.

And do you find that there is a best time of year to do this process?

I am dying to understand this folks. Thanks for your help.

node

The roots provide the water, but the energy is prodiced in the leaves. Now if the connection between the foliage and the roots is cut, water can still travel upwards through the wood, but the carbohydrates produced in the leaves can't travel downwards to the roots anymore.

The immediate consequence is a swelling right above where the tree has been girdled, ie. all the carbohydrates end up there because the can't travel further down the trunk.

Now if treated right, and rooting hormone is pretty much an essential here, at the point above the girdling where the swelling is, new roots will appear also.

As it is the foliage above the layer that will provide the plant with the energy to produce new roots, this also determines the best time for most layers. Namely, in early summer when the leaves have hardenend off, and the plant has suffucient energy to actually produce new roots.
hope this helps...

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Debby

Thank you for clearing up this mystery (at least to me it is a mystery). Now that I understand the process, I am looking forward to giving this process a try. Just a case of finding a subject to use it on. Thanks again.

DJSend

Node,

Great response! Thanks for making it easy to understand!

~ Jay