Bill, my experience with layering is mostly with maples, but the findings may be applicable to calamondin. Initially I used the sphagnum moss and wrapper method but found the method rather cumbersome for any initial inspection. Some specie has a great ability to heal back a wound, in which case no roots will ever form and I believe your specie belongs there. To make frequent inspection easy, I use rock wool and a drip system to maintain moisture and hold the wool with wire and clip. The drip system is sensitive to the weather: on hot sunny days, the drip interval is lenghtened and it stops whenever it rains. Another method is to use a split plastic cup (purchased from Lee Valley) and rooting soiless medium. The cup snaps into place and is easily opened to do inspection. With maples, it is often the case to wait more than a year for the roots to appear espcially with athropurpurum. The greatest problem is preserving the callus already formed through winter. It either dies sitting in an ice cube when frost hits after rain or gets scorched if the wool is completely dry and the winter sun gets too hot. It is too risky to continue with the drip system outdoor in winter. Your sphagnum method does not give this scorching problem but the ice cube is present. I guess your plant is indoor in winter, then you are lucky. If you are impatient or want to speed up the rooting, you needn't wait for a full growth of roots. The plant knows how to balance its energy source between its various needs. I had the experience of removing a full moon maple branch which has a girth of 0.75" and when planted a height of 4 feet.It has only 2 rather small roots when I decided to spare it the winter hazzards and cut it. Then I kept the plant outdoor but close to a north wall, give its roots heat conveyed by running warm water at 75 deg. F through copper tubes. I wasn't sure that I could succeed at first but this plant did expand its reserved energy to grow a profuse rooting system, as other areas remained dormant in the cold. Naturally, the reserved energy drop did show up as lesser number of leaves at bud break. Never fear it recovered quickly enough and by summer you won't even notice any difference.

Could Mom be up in the trees with the fledglings? Maybe she is making less trips to the nest since Pop has it handled? I have a Female Blue that refuses to feed the babies after they are 11 days old, she has done this 3 nestings in a row. She is always there for fledging but it's like she takes a week off before they go. Hope yours is OK and that the babies get off safely.

I was leaning towards mealies, but am unable to quite make one out clearly. However, the copious amounts of sticky honeydew also point to the direction of the scale. Yes, these insects (and others) excrete volumes of a clear, sugary, sticky substance called honeydew. I agree with my friends above regarding isolation and the use of alcohol. Let me add that once you remove all of the visable insects and egg sacs that you keep a little spray bottle filled with one part alcohol to three parts water nearby to mist the plants occasionally. The mist can get into the nooks and crannies and help control crawlers and adults. The eggs are contained in that white egg sac, they disperse as tiny crawlers. Be sure that you mist the stems and underside of the leaves. Here's a good video of these insects. Is this what you have on your plants?

I figured I'd give y'all an update on the progress. It was either 6/22/16 (or 23rd) I watered. I had good water drainage out of the bottom. I can't say I've really seen a change in her, but I somehow get the feeling that she didn't care for the water. That is either a feeling, or maybe (to me) her leaves were more droopy. I have everything set the same as y'all have recommended, but i have a thought. The past few here the humidity has it feeling like 100-103deg, would it be advisable to put her inside in a 73deg environment? It is a challenge, but not too major to do so, but i would need to move back outside for watering. Other than that, is there anything else I could do? Another thought I had was maybe trimming off the new growth that's now dead/brown looking. I somehow feel like maybe she might be overextending herself with the extra branches. That is just a feeling as well that crossed my mind.