So far, the few air layers I've done have only been on fully-lignified wood, but I assume, from other posts about summer cuttings, that green wood ought to work fine as well. Can anyone report on their experience with green wood air layers?

Hi Ken,
I have two green wood air layers under way, but not much to report as yet.
also two green wood cuttings underway, the only thing I can say about those is that they are not drying up and dying.

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Ken,

Good question.

Never attempted to air layer green wood but have had good success rooting green wood cuttings.

Good luck with the project

It would be very hard to find the cambium layer on green wood.

Is it necessary to peel away cambium layer on green growth?

I have a ground shoot on my Marseilles Black VS that is almost 12" tall right now and I wanted to airlayer, so I am interested in the process if anyone has written about it.

I tried it this year on my Tashkent. I cut off  little slivers of the bark to the cambium layer at different intervals going around up for about 5 inches. I used a box cutter and sliced off strips in upside down V's going to about 1/4 to 1/3" wide. I alternated around the width going up the distance of the 5 inches. I used a clear plastic bagfilled up with peat and perlite.

Jason, I had read in a post recently that girdling isn't necessary, but that you can just sand the nodes a bit to break through the bark surface. Dominick's experience seems to confirm this, so I plan to try some green shoots along with a couple of more mature branches and compare the results.

Bass shared this link >> http://treesofjoy.com/blog/?p=85 << to his blog with photos in this post back in June.

I followed his steps and rooted three all green wood 3-4" Smith cuttings that I pinched off an air layer that I potted in mid-July. All are doing well, about 6-7", now uncovered, and on a shaded porch with indirect sunlight. I will check for roots and likely separate them once they lignify.

The photos were taken the day I pinched, potted, and covered.

Jimmie,

I started a Smith cutting about 18 months ago if I am not mistaken. I do know it was from over a year ago.
Up to a month ago it was no larger than the largest one you are showing.
Had it in the house all Winter long. Wouldn't budge.

So last month I decided to take it out of the cup and loosen the soil and re-pot with new soil ( potting mix ). So far it looks like it was a good idea.

Hope your pull through, I hear many good things on this fig.

Good luck

Thanks Rafed!

See those white circles on the main stem of the air layer in the attached photo. That's where I pinched them off. The layer and those little ones appear to be doing well.

Looks good Jimmy,

Is that a Smith too?

I put a green wood aielayer on my Nero I wanted to pinch the tip to make it branch so I went down about 6" and just broke a couple leaves off wraped it in sphagnum and foil
It took a little longer to root but when it did there were alot more roots in the foil
I have potted it up and it is doing well
I did have to take cuttings off the top though in the time it took to root it grew another 15"

Rafed,

Yes. It is a Smith. In the photo attached, the Smith is tripled branched in the pot on the right and the air layer shown in post #9 is the one on the left.

FYI. LSU Scott's Black is the tree in the pot on the left. Those were breba.