Time of day to seperate a rooted air layer?

[RoadManDenDron]

Do you have any pics of the roots when you collected it?

Any pics after collection?

Have ALL the leaves fell or just some?

Sorry to answer your question with more questions it will just help us give the most accurate answer

 

[sorce]

If you are doing it "correctly", for bonsai, separation should take all of 30 seconds and "aftercare" should be of no mind.

Priorcare is more important than aftercare. Aftercare is a myth when enough preventative practices are put into place.

If you follow the "one major insult a season" rule....this method does save you a season.

Radialayer™ a season saver.

Nutters, You may have noticed I almost always jump to recommending airlayers. I don't think I will ever lose my fascination with the process. In attempts to perfect it, I have worked out some tweaks so it is time to share my method. I don't understand haphazardly throwing long...

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Sorce

 

[Demonology]

Do you have any pics of the roots when you collected it?

Any pics after collection?

Have ALL the leaves fell or just some?

Sorry to answer your question with more questions it will just help us give the most accurate answer

No no, I didn't proved enough info.
So, when I first potted the tree it was fine for 3 days I think, then the next few days started losing leaves. The only odd then is that most of the leaves are either old[the ones that are below the branches and the large ones]. But the rest are still holding on just fine, only that they are'nt reacting to light meaning leaves aren't tilting towards the light source.

 

[Demonology]

If you are doing it "correctly", for bonsai, separation should take all of 30 seconds and "aftercare" should be of no mind.

Priorcare is more important than aftercare. Aftercare is a myth when enough preventative practices are put into place.

If you follow the "one major insult a season" rule....this method does save you a season.

Radialayer™ a season saver.

Nutters, You may have noticed I almost always jump to recommending airlayers. I don't think I will ever lose my fascination with the process. In attempts to perfect it, I have worked out some tweaks so it is time to share my method. I don't understand haphazardly throwing long...

www.bonsainut.com

Sorce

I've thought of every possible reason that would cause the leaves to fall and the only two reasons I concluded are roots suffering from the substrate being too wet for too long cause there aren't any roots yet in the added medium, the weather isn't humid enough. Since Egypt rn is going through the 40s and at night goes just below 30 degrees celsius.

 

[RoadManDenDron]

I would guess there just weren't enough roots to support all of the foliage, still seems to have plenty of leaves and its a ficus so I think, given good care it will survive.

definitely keep it out of direct sunlight until it is visibly much stronger,

Maybe mist it of a morning and keep it watered, but at the same time be sure not to over water the soil, (only water when it needs it).

For perspective (not a ficus) but I have had my recently collected air layer in the shade with misting because our daytime temps were close to 30c soon after I collected it!

I have been to egypt but don't know enough about your climate for a full year, perhaps if there is a cooler time of year would be better to harvest layers then, perhaps the original roots would have sustained the leaves better but only experimenting in your climate will give answers,

Best of luck!

 

[Demonology]

I would guess there just weren't enough roots to support all of the foliage, still seems to have plenty of leaves and its a ficus so I think, given good care it will survive.

definitely keep it out of direct sunlight until it is visibly much stronger,

Maybe mist it of a morning and keep it watered, but at the same time be sure not to over water the soil, (only water when it needs it).

For perspective (not a ficus) but I have had my recently collected air layer in the shade with misting because our daytime temps were close to 30c soon after I collected it!

I have been to egypt but don't know enough about your climate for a full year, perhaps if there is a cooler time of year would be better to harvest layers then, perhaps the original roots would have sustained the leaves better but only experimenting in your climate will give answers,

Best of luck!

Thanks for the feedback. I really hope so.

It's always dry in summer no rain nor humid [Cairo] only rains in winter, and in spring it's extremely hot ironically. Never exceeds 0c in winter also in Cairo specifically.

happy to know you've been to Egypt in the past. There are basically no bonsai communities here, heck its hard to find any supplies, can't find guy wire, pots especially soil only perlite and vermiculite as an airy medium lol.

 

[Demonology]

Update, so the Ficus started recovering and producing new leaves. But all came crashing down a few days after, the new leaves started to brown at the petoile. The new leaves didn't even harden off yet; the old ones started dropping too.
What's happening?
I've tried leaving the soil on the dry and wet sides, which didn't help at all.
I just think the tree hates life at this point :[

 

[Orion_metalhead]

I cut my layers any time I know I have 15 minutes of free time. Proper after care and no problem. Especially in fall or spring.

 

[Demonology]

Sooo...Should I be concerned or not

I cut my layers any time I know I have 15 minutes of free time. Proper after care and no problem. Especially in fall or spring.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Update, so the Ficus started recovering and producing new leaves. But all came crashing down a few days after, the new leaves started to brown at the petoile. The new leaves didn't even harden off yet; the old ones started dropping too.
What's happening?
I've tried leaving the soil on the dry and wet sides, which didn't help at all.
I just think the tree hates life at this point :[

Ficus like heat and humidity. Are you keeping it indoors in A/C?

Make sure you are giving it enough water. In the summer when my trees are growing, I can water my ficus twice per day and they will take up all the water - leaving only slightly moist soil behind. You can let a ficus dry out a little if you have a dry season and the tree goes dormant for a few months. But otherwise - it should be soaking up water like crazy.

 

[Javaman4373]

No no, I didn't proved enough info.
So, when I first potted the tree it was fine for 3 days I think, then the next few days started losing leaves. The only odd then is that most of the leaves are either old[the ones that are below the branches and the large ones]. But the rest are still holding on just fine, only that they are'nt reacting to light meaning leaves aren't tilting towards the light source.

I know little about ficus, but I will just tell you our experience. My wife took her ficus out of the pot to adjust the soil and slipped it back in the same pot. Shortly after it dropped all its leaves. It then leafed out again and was soon back to what it was before. It just seems ficus can drop leaves over a trivial disturbance and will recover.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Sooo...Should I be concerned or not

Idk. But like others have said, subtle changes in environment, watering, repot etc will cause self defoliation before growing a new set of leaves.