Sootys trees
Yamadori
A few weeks back or so I air layered my small cherry tree which I planted in the ground back in early march. It’s been heavily fertilised and has made great progress this year.
There was a mass of roots growing down over the future cut site and I didn’t want to have to lose any roots by moving them when cutting so I decided to nip it in the bud and cut it today, after carefully removing the moss I was pleased to see a really strong mass of roots all over the base…
I wired and potted it in a very course substrate of moss, perlite, sand, potting soil and acidic compost and watered it heavily.
After this I decided to remove at least a third of the upper foliage tips as there was a very large amount in comparison to the root ball, I was in fact going to ask for advice with this but thought the answer would be yes from my research.
The tree remaining tree is the most important thing here as I was going to have to loose this portion at some point due to inverse taper in the future, wether it was from basic hard pruning or a layer…
The tree will now remain in shade until it shows some growth or further root development,
I’m really happy with the results, second airlayer success this year and ever





This the remaining tree

There was a mass of roots growing down over the future cut site and I didn’t want to have to lose any roots by moving them when cutting so I decided to nip it in the bud and cut it today, after carefully removing the moss I was pleased to see a really strong mass of roots all over the base…
I wired and potted it in a very course substrate of moss, perlite, sand, potting soil and acidic compost and watered it heavily.
After this I decided to remove at least a third of the upper foliage tips as there was a very large amount in comparison to the root ball, I was in fact going to ask for advice with this but thought the answer would be yes from my research.
The tree remaining tree is the most important thing here as I was going to have to loose this portion at some point due to inverse taper in the future, wether it was from basic hard pruning or a layer…
The tree will now remain in shade until it shows some growth or further root development,
I’m really happy with the results, second airlayer success this year and ever






This the remaining tree
