http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.asp?page=46938&category=2%2C47236&SID=&ccurrency=1
Has anyone tried anything like this for airlayering?
Air layering pots
Looks good! Are they in New York? Looks like $5.00 shpg. up to $25. merchandise.
I had planned to try layering in the summer.
It seems they are in NY too - maybe that $5. shipping was in CAD$? The link I sent was CAD - you can change the currency on the site from the home page.
you can get all kinds of containers like this in the deli. I'm going to be stocking up. also cut produce comes in things like this, I'd just have to make the cuts.
Great pots and not expensive either. I tried to order, and it won't take my order. I changed to Am. currency and logged in, but still nothing, so I'm heading to make a phone call. Thanks.
Great idea but I am to cheep lol
I do it all the time but with aluminum foil and peat moss.
My wound is a good 1/2 in.
Just don't seal the top and bottom completely
and water some every day with the hose.
After roots get going I cut it off and plant the moss too.
Larry
Larry, I do it with torfpots. Will try to make some pictures tomorrow.
Liz, the idea is good but dont you think it would become to heavy for brugrooting? It needs strong twigs for such pots.
Just a thought.
GL
Turfpots - like peatpots?
Yes, Liz.
Sorry, I thought same word...peat is Torf.
I use peatpots for airlayering,best for repotting....you will not destroy one new root.
GL
Do you soak the pots first, then cut them open? Do you still use peatmoss soaked first?
Please give us step by step instructions, pictures of what you do would be great. My brug seeds germinate best in peat pots/dirt, they do not stay too wet, as the peat pot dries on outside, so no overwatered seeds.
Liz and Gloria
please give one day time to me. I have it all in GH. Air layered Kaskade ( B versicolor)peatpots and soil I am using.
I will take pictures it will be easier to explain for me.
Hope this is ok for you..I had to write 1000 words now, one picture will it clear up.
GL
LOL Ludger - sorry.
(((LIZ)))
I liked the looks of those pots,have been wondering how I was going to try it.
Want to see how you are doing it Ludger,will wait for pictures
I did some air layering last year by putting spaghnum in a plastic bag wrapped around the stem that I wanted to root. Worked great.
Rooty,I will do my best,smile.
Have had 1 and a half Valentine´s beer,unable to hold the camera...lol lol.
GL
LOL I am patient person Ludger,Have one for me.
No hurry, not ready to air-layer yet. Appreciate all the help we can get, whenever you have time to show us. Thanks.
Have a GREAT day.
Gee........why make it so complicated! I learned from a friend that has been growing brugs for years. You do not even have to cut around the stalk but you can. I just put a big handful of wet moss aound the trunk and cover completely with silver foil and scrunch it up tight so it stays wet inside for ever....................and then VOILA..........ROOTS! takes 2 minutes to do.
I just did 2 alley trees to be last weekend.........
Just placed my order 13.50 american its worth a shot to me I am sure if they work you can use them over and over
I hope that included postage Irish. I ordered them for $8.50 for 5 pots. Had to call my order in because I couldn't get the online form to work. Of course, I couldn't stop at just ordering pots.........I have this problem you know. Have to get enough to make the postage worth paying. :-)
I got an order in online last night,or phone is still out from the storm.
kell, the cut is made to shut off part of the sap. It stimulates the rooting and callous will cover the wound and prevents fungus and bacti infections. After sucsessfull rooting, when you cut off the stem, the wound will be much smaller.
Thanks Monika...... but my point is that with brugs they are so easy to airlayer them. You just need moisture and they root! You do not have to do much at all. I have done quite a few now and do not even bother cutting around the stalk, but leave it intact and the root forms quickly esp in the summer if it is in the sun. I have noticed the ones I did in the fall took much longer than the ones I did in summer but that probably has to do with the temperature. I did some with cutting a ring of bark off and adding rooting compound then the wet moss and silver foil, but as I went on my back started to hurt so by the end of the day I had stopped doing all the extra steps and cut to the chase and just added wet moss and then the silver foil.......and no difference! They rooted the same! Brugs are just so easy, why do extra work when you do not have to!
I also have just cut off 6 to 8 foot shoots with no roots and they root well also after some initial drooping. I am now just airlayering the ones that if they died I would cry.............
Someone mentioned air layering last year without making any cuts in the trunk so I tried it. I wrapped 7 trees the middle of Sept. with wet moss and some I wrapped with ProMix which is mostly sphagnum moss and perlite. Brought them into the GH a couple of weeks later where they have been since. Last week I took all the plastic bags off and there is not a one root. You must have to do it this way when there is lots of heat through the whole rootings process. With my short season and temps that go up and down I will use the cut method from now on.
Liz,Hibiscus, Snow and Rooty,
I took the pictures today and soon you will see them in an other thread.Airlayering is not "complicated" but most time you will use it for complicated Brugs or for getting a large new trunk. For this you will need some good roots.
Terry, I did it last year and had no problem with it. Of course, it was during the warmer weather and they were ready to cut off by the time the brugs needed to come in. I had potted the newly rooted plants probably 3 or 4 weeks before the first frost. I made no cuts, just let them root as they were. Worked great for me.
Liz, if you want to try out the air layering device, consider buying it at Lee Valley tools, they are just $12.50, worth the experiment I think. I think they have a website catalogue.
or you can do this: http://www.brugmansias.org/airlayer.html
Dennis the link I posted at the beginning was from Lee Valley - they're in New York too as well as everywhere here.
I like the peat pot method. It would be lots easier to fill the pots than the wrapped plastic or tin foil.
If you start air layering a plant in the summer while it is blooming will it affect the amount of future blooms?
Terry, when I removed my rooted stalk, it had blooms on it and continued to bloom. I had seed pods on them and they remained on the stalks too.
And we all have those peat pots kicking around doing nothing anyway don't we?
That's good to know Shirley. I will definitely be trying it earlier this year.
You're right Liz, I know I've got a stack of them kicking around, now just to remember where. LOL
Liz, it's shameful how many of those pots I have doing nothing!!
Over lol, Liz, if I understood you right: You have the peatpods all over and wondering how to do with...
Why do you know my GH ground (floor)...lol
Terry, it will not affect the amount of future blooms.
After some time you will see that some roots in this peat pot will use water. The soil will become dry faster.
This is the point you can water a little more ( in peat pot).
If you are a lazybone like me, you will not cut the trunk but fertilize the peat pot...
after some more days or weeks you will have still more roots in peat pot...
Thanks Ludger. I will remember this.
I'm soaking up all this knowledge as fast as I can.........Spring better hurry, so I can try some airlayering, can hardly stand the anticipation. Thanks to all who have given various ways to try, one of them should work for me!