Air layering with an angle?

[ValorG]

Can I airlayer a branch with the cut to the bark being on an angle to increase the base size instead of the conventional perpendicular cut around? The tree will basically be a slanted style when planted.

 

[fredman]

Most certainly

 

[jomawa]

@ValorG, Thank you for asking the very question I've been pondering the simple logic of. Since I'm growing/layering a ring of root, don't it simply make more sense to have an "air layering with an angle" to place the roots parallel to the ground yet have the trunk at angle?

I certainly think you can, and the end result will be better for it, I think.

 

[Steve Kudela]

Can I airlayer a branch with the cut to the bark being on an angle to increase the base size instead of the conventional perpendicular cut around? The tree will basically be a slanted style when planted.

Yes you can

 

[ValorG]

Thank you

 

[Stan Kengai]

As others have said, yes you can. Roots tend to be more prolific on the lower side of the layer, but as long as you get a few on the upper side, they will even out once potted up.

I would recommend using tape to line the location/angle of your cut. When I tried to carve on an angle freehand, it came out much more perpendicular than I wished.

 

[ValorG]

As others have said, yes you can. Roots tend to be more prolific on the lower side of the layer, but as long as you get a few on the upper side, they will even out once potted up.

I would recommend using tape to line the location/angle of your cut. When I tried to carve on an angle freehand, it came out much more perpendicular than I wished.

Ahh good idea. I was thinking of using a marker to mark my cut.