I thinking of trying to air layer a potted fig in the house that is still pushing growth. Will this work

Dave - I layered a small Sal's Corleone completely inside the house in the spring last year.  It worked out great!  She grew to 5 feet and started putting on figs by the end of the summer.

           

Great to here I got a Nero 600 that I had to baby all year as a cutting. Almost list it several times. Finally she's doing great and has strong roots in a 5 gal pot. Wouldn't mind a second one.

Looks great!!! Excellent job.

Wow, looks super, great growing,

What if the tree is dormant? 

Dave, I am going to do one also. It's small, but it I have faith it will work. As long as you have green leaves harvesting energy, they should do a good job at powering that great root growth. The beauty with a layer is you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

I hear that Calvin. My Nero has three branches one is a green sucker a little over a foot tall. Think he is the one IM going after.

Scott IM not sure bud but I think of dormant air layer may not work as it's not pushing new growth.

Hi COGardner,
If the tree is dormant no roots will appear.
For winterizing I do fill trashcans with potting soil from the nurseries around my trees.
And none does grow roots in the potting soil. They stay like that from mid November to mid March . So that's more than enough of time.
But if I do that in June, in 2 months I  get roots that allow me to remove the airlayers as full trees.
So the figtrees need to be growing to be able to root - at least in my experience .

Here we go. One on a Nero and one on a condria. See how it goes in about a month

nice one Dave, good luck.
what do you have in there? coir????

Good luck Dave. Are those the air layer pods they sell online? They re so cool. Looks like you re using sphagnum moss in them!Is this the second time you re using them?I know they come with a couple of soil like discs that expand when wet! If yes how did they work out for You? Thanks in advance!

@ ChrisK
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get well soon bro!!!

Thanks bud! I have to go to work tomorrow so !!!!!!!

I am using a 50/50 mix of promix and sphagnum. I think I itself those fr park sees Co. love them have used them many times.

Thanks for posting this Dave. You got me going on mine sooner than I would have on my own. Hopefully this little tree will be way ahead now.

Good luck bro. Hope it goes well. I cut the leaves off and treated the cut area with a gel rooting hormone. Never tried to do an air layer on a pottedplant in winter. Guess this is how we learn. The clam shell airlayer pots I think I got from park seed co. They are the medium size.

http://backyardgrowers.com/clamshell-propagator/

Here are some. Not the same place I got mine though.