ground air layer

[Gary McCarthy]

This is why I like to ground air layer my nursery stock.




This is a Yuri Hime Japanese maple that I purchased last May with a pencil size thick trunk that I then did a ground air layer on. After just one year I now have the beginning of a nice shallow, flat, 360 degree radial nebari.

 

[coh]

Pretty sweet result! My layers rarely produce such a dense/well distributed set of roots.

 

[dbonsaiw]

Nice

 

[Piedmont Bonsai]

Yup I’ve developed some great nebaris by doing this method

 

[GertR]

Gary

Any info on the method you used here?

 

[Gary McCarthy]

Gary

Any info on the method you used here?

Pretty straight forward.

I removed an area of the bark just above the base. I placed a disk around the trunk just below the top cut and I also applied Clonex gel to the top cut. The soil mix I use for nursery stock is 70% coco coir and 30% perlite. Then I just let the tree grow wild all of last year.

I did 4 trees like this and they all turned out the same.

Hope that helps.

 

[gooeytek]

Pretty straight forward.

I removed an area of the bark just above the base. I placed a disk around the trunk just below the top cut and I also applied Clonex gel to the top cut. The soil mix I use for nursery stock is 70% coco coir and 30% perlite. Then I just let the tree grow wild all of last year.

I did 4 trees like this and they all turned out the same.

Hope that helps.

Sweet, I've tried airlayers before on boxwoods, but never done a groundlayer. I'm going to have a go at this, thanks for the info