How to air layer a metasequoia bonsai 🌿
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Promising - looking buds on Lattarula fig tree that I started last summer via air-layering. It survived the winter just fine. It still needs some TLC this year, especially watering and protection from voles and deer. Lattarula fig has several other names, including White Marseilles. Probably French origin, but it's hard to say with fig cultivars. Ancient - Thomas Jefferson had them at his Virginia plantation. The variety is highly vigorous, survives freezes here (Maritime SW Washington State), produces a summer crop and fall crop, of sweet, mild flavored greenish-yellow figs with light beige flesh. Delicious in fig bars, jams, and barbecues. Low maintenance but requires pruning to stay within reach.

Swelling buds on young Petite negri fig tree. It's a good sign that it survived the winter and is growing. Petite negri fig goes by a number of names, and some may or may not be the same variety. Other names include Petite aubique or Violette de Bordeaux. It may originate in France. I bought the source tree twentyfive years ago, mail order. It is a lower vigor, naturally dwarfed variety. It survives the freezes here in Zone 8a, Battle Ground WA. During the worst winters, a few stem tips blacken, but that's not a problem. I think the flavor is among the riches of all home grown fig varieties. It's full of "figgy" flavor. There may be hints of strawberry flavor, too. Sweet, of course. The skin is black, the flesh is red. This year, the tree needs screening wire protection of the bottom trunk, for voles, and fencing from deer. I will give lots of water and a monthly or so dose of balanced fertilizer until July, when it will need to start hardening for next winter.

This was the air layered Petite negri fig start, in August. I had just cut it from the source tree. I potted it up, kept it in the shade for a few weeks, and watered it a lot. I cut off the top foot or so, due to the small root mass. I planted it in the garden in September. By that time, new roots had filled the one gallon pot. Rufus being playful.

The root mass on the air layered Petite negri fig tree, exposed. Impressive amount of roots, promising a healthy start. This was in August. I had started the air layering process in May. Cuttings also work, and are more portable, but air layering requires less attention compared to cuttings and produces an initially larger started fig tree.

The fig trees I started via air layering last summer, are waking up. They survived the winter. It's a welcome development.

Their parent trees are favorites but unfortunately located within a wildfire mitigation zone that I want to keep cleared. #figtrees #propagation #airlayering

A section of Tradescantia wrapped in a moistened rockwool cube, sisal twine to hold it together, and finally wrapped in cling wrap to keep the water in. In a few weeks when roots are visible, snip the stem and put the rockwool cube and cutting into your preferred media

Air layering the tradescantia 👀

Never tried this, but I want more of these so here goes nothing

I’m doing the same to the monstera as well

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Propagating Mulberry Trees — Twisted Tree Farm

A short article on cloning trees!!
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A green tray with multiple small, black plant containers. The four containers in the foreground contain cotoneaster cuttings in red-grey substrate, wired with copper-color wire. In the background, more plants are visible (slightly blurry).

I wired my cotoneaster cuttings and put them into seperate containers. They are still growing nicely. The other plants in the tray are mild chilis and pomegranate seedlings. #bonsai #tree #preBonsai #airLayering