Hi all!

    

I set up a branch yesterday on my Brown Turkey.
I really didn't like the way it was going and would have cut it off in the fall.
If it does not work, no great loss, buy I think it will.
It only needs a couple months at most,
so by end of September it should be well rooted.

Good luck,

Jerry

Figure that you need about 5 weeks of good active growing weather to get the air layer rooted, and then some good weather or greenhouse to get it established off of the tree. No harm in trying.

Go for it!  I started my first about 4 weeks ago and and now have strong roots.  Tomorrow I will be cutting it and potting it up.  I also started 10 more today.  I use the small 8oz round water bottles.  It seems to work fine.  Here in the Carolinas, we will have 90 and 80 degree weather till late October.  So, I'll give my air layers 4 week and check back.  I don't cover my bottle with foil like most.  I just cut a slit in the bottle, make the opening on both ends large enough to circle the limb, fill with a light airy mixture that's moist and tape it shut.  Again, go for it!  cheers!

Dennis,

It would be nice to see some of your air-layers in the smaller bottles. Can you post a photos? If I am not having my usual reading comprehension concerns, then I suspect you have an open top and bottom, i.e., the light fluffy stuff might touch the soil top on the bottom and it is also might be exposed at the top. Do you water regularly? A few photos would be worth a few thousand.

Thanks,
JD

Hello JD!  I talked about air layering all of my 3 and 4 yr old trees for quite some time.  They are not that large but wanted to test on a few trees.  I've seen others air layers on this forum and the other forum post their pics using bottles and plastic bags.  One day I was in the store and saw these round fat cheap colorful soda pop bottles.  They were 10 for a dollar, so I bought 10, came home and poured out the soda in each bottle and rinsed them out.  Today I wasn't planning on air layering.  I just wanted to prep the bottles for Monday.  I had all my supplies and had them laid out on the table and went out side and started pulling weeds around my container trees and before you knew it I air layered 6 or 7 trees!  I'll post some pic tomorrow afternoon when I get home from work.

I air layered 8 lower branchs off my alma and lsu gold.  They are not a year old.  It took about a month to see roots and then an extra week to pack the moss wad full of roots.  I have them potted now.
You can air layer any time of the year that the plant is activy growing.

Here is my attempt at air layering on a Brown Turkey Fig.

Started some airlayers on July 24th and they are already rooted. But, I have also noticed a growth spurt in all of my fig trees in the last week. The other observation I've made is that the airlayers which were started on branches at the base of the tree rooted very fast compared to airlayers higher up.
Hope this builds confidence to airlayer away at this time!

Thanks everyoune for your feedback