Failed airlayer
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namnhi
Masterpiece
You got my vote on Bwaynef technique. Most of use never think of it until now.
bwaynef
Masterpiece
I'll take the notoriety, but I'm hardly the first to thread graft roots onto a tree to be removed. That said, we're almost shohin-trident twins though. When I was at Boon's, I saw 8-10 large junipers* that he's planning to graft roots onto so that he can DRASTICALLY shorten. They won't end up shohin/mame like our tridents, but its the same idea. For some reason, I attribute the first time I saw this idea to John Kirby, but I don't remember on what tree.
*If you're FB friends w/ Boon, you may remember a few weeks ago when he posted the fallout from severe windstorms. Several of the tall junipers that were toppled are going to be drastically shortened by grafting roots somewhere along the trunk.
*If you're FB friends w/ Boon, you may remember a few weeks ago when he posted the fallout from severe windstorms. Several of the tall junipers that were toppled are going to be drastically shortened by grafting roots somewhere along the trunk.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
I have had mized results with trident layers. It seems there are varieties that layer well, and others that hardly layer at all .
I saw in the other thread yours didn't make it, that sucks. Mine made it thanks to the @bwaynef technique
Earlier this year I just went and separated my layer. There were 0 roots from the actual layer, but one bwaynef graft supported the whole thing. I'm just letting it recover this year and we shall see if the actual graft throws out roots.
Earlier this year I just went and separated my layer. There were 0 roots from the actual layer, but one bwaynef graft supported the whole thing. I'm just letting it recover this year and we shall see if the actual graft throws out roots.
bwaynef
Masterpiece
"Our "first ACTUAL success. Now, you guys go make me famous. A reminder: I wasn't the first to threadgraft roots onto the apex of a tree to be removed, but was just fed up w/ my trident airlayer failing and needed to make some progress.
I'd love to have someone document a failed (Trident?) airlayer that they treat as a cutting. I've heard a few times that THAT can work, but I never was comfortable trying it.
I'd love to have someone document a failed (Trident?) airlayer that they treat as a cutting. I've heard a few times that THAT can work, but I never was comfortable trying it.
I've grown a failed trident airlayer successfully with no roots and only callous. It does work.
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