Rooting of side branches on Hemlock
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Rooting a Michelia Alba branch?
Comments (24)I have air layered Michelia alba twice in Santa Clara Ca. One common mistake, or easily make, is not to provide drainage, or over watering. So once you have wrapped up the plastic or foil, don't forget to use a sharp knife to brake a small hole on the bottom. My first one I didn't notice because the branch I was air layering on is kind of straight up. Water naturally goes down to the bottom where it can leak out. The 2nd one was on a level branch where water sobbed the soil and it didn't root in 3+ months. Once I drained the bottom and punch few tiny holes on the bottom, within 3 months, I got 1 root. Currently I have 5 on the branches, 2 months old. will let you know when they root. My first one took 6+ months, but I think if I had done correctly, I could shorten the time a bit. Anyone who has success experience can tell me what is the shortest time to root?...See Moreneighbor's tree roots and branches
Comments (7)It might be asking for trouble, but I wonder if you could ask your neighbors how they feel about their trees? If you explain to them that you love to garden and offer to pay for the removal of the trees that are right against the property line (and to bribe them with the season's first tomatoes), they might be receptive. An arborist might also tell you if there's a middle ground, like pruning both branches and roots on their trees every two or three years....See MoreIf cut callery pear branches are still alive will they grow roots?
Comments (2)Yeah i should have left it on longer. I though 4 weeks would be sufficient....See MoreRooting Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis).
Comments (50)Update: June 17th, woke up to heavy, pouring rain in the night, wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't came down at a 45d angle perfectly from the NE. Found the covering on my totes compromised. They were in a corner, up against the north side of the house and east side of cement front steps with a 2 foot overhang on the single story roof and a 6 ft. tall, fully branched/leafed sand cherry shrub protecting them on the North side. Nice bright area with a little evening sunset hitting the north wall of the house just above the totes. So there I was at @ 2:00 in the morning putting things back to normal. The pail with the Thuja was half full of water. Brought things into the garage. The cups were floating around at different angles with media mostly outside the cups. Checked for roots and found no sign of anything happening there so decided to discard the Thuja so that is finished. Tsuga wasn't hit as hard, water was plenty high and a few of the cups partially tipped. They were tighter grouped and only one or two had the media partially disturbed. All of them were thoroughly soaked from the rain. The Tsuga looked reasonably good, some have a few dead needles but there are a few, if not several, that are entirely green and some of them show what appears to be a small amount of new growth along the stem and branch tips. I can see no signs of mold or fungus. There is some algae evident but I assume this is because of the small amount of diffused sunlight the tote receives now that it is outside? We'll know more in another month or so. I don't plan to do anything with them until at least the first week in August. Picture of what things looked like before the storm: We (almost) never get rain at that angle. I had rubber binders around the top, holding the plastic on but the rain came so hard and fast that it stretched the plastic downward and filled up the sag in the plastic until it was so heavy that it pulled the plastic out from the binders allowing the water to pour in. Murphy's law?...See MoreUser
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