Seedling mikawa yatsubusa in stock again at mr maple!

[Bonsai Nut]

Air layering is the only way to get a true genetic replication.

Correction, rooted cuttings will also give you a replication of the mother plant.

There are four ways to get a genetic replica of a parent plant (in general order of commonality)
(1) Graft
(2) Cutting
(3) Air-layer
(4) Tissue culture

The last is more or less restricted to labs, but the other three happen frequently with bonsai. It is interesting to note that in all cases you are simply taking a small part of the parent and growing it out as a separate plant. Is it a new individual? Or is it still the parent plant - just split in two? That is the question

 

[fredman]

Yeah being the slooww growers that they are...it makes sense to me they'll be slow to form roots also.