08-01-2007, 04:14 PM
We've had some success with air layering ohias. It takes awhile though but then most air layers do. We only managed a fifty percent rate with ohias but did better with about a seventy five percent rate with peach trees, so we aren't the best air layerers out there.
Noel, you could start the air layer now and then check it when you get back, since it takes months before the roots are ready. Cut off the outer and inner bark in a band about an inch or inch and a half wide around a nice branch, we've had good luck with them several feet long. Dust the bare spot with root tone and then wrap it thickly with wet moss. Wrap that with plastic. We tie the bottom pretty tight to hold in moisture and leave some tufts sticking out at the top so the plastic can catch rain. Leave it like that for several months and then peel back the plastic and look for roots.
There might be better ways, you could see if there are any books about it at the library or info online somewhere.
Noel, you could start the air layer now and then check it when you get back, since it takes months before the roots are ready. Cut off the outer and inner bark in a band about an inch or inch and a half wide around a nice branch, we've had good luck with them several feet long. Dust the bare spot with root tone and then wrap it thickly with wet moss. Wrap that with plastic. We tie the bottom pretty tight to hold in moisture and leave some tufts sticking out at the top so the plastic can catch rain. Leave it like that for several months and then peel back the plastic and look for roots.
There might be better ways, you could see if there are any books about it at the library or info online somewhere.
Kurt Wilson