UPDATE - ELM AIR LAYER(S) PROGRESSION

this year i took another 3 air layers off the same host tree...

here is one of them... looks promising



i hope this one takes off... less roots on this years batch but i think my technique was a bit sloppier than last year...
but in potting it up, i dusted it with rooting whoremoan and sprinkled a little additional milled sphagnum moss in the soil around the roots...

more to follow...

Nice air layering. They all look healthy!

beer city snake wrote:here is an update on one of the air layers i took off last year...

his first haircut and style:
before:



and after:



more pics and info here:
Arbor Arts Collective Blog

HA !
just went to update this and realized it is exactly 1 year to the day since the last update... serendipity...

anyways... repotted this one yesterday:



the crescent pot is from a cat named sage, a friend of IBCer jesse down hendersonville n.c. way...
i met him at the n.c. bonsai expo last year and he had some pots he made in the back of his pick-up truck...
i grabbed a couplafew from him... my preferred way to buy pots...
an unknown potter, a back alley, a handshake and a belt of whiskey to seal the deal.

Looking really good Kevin.

Air layering's great isn't it. I couldn't believe it when I first tried it, it's like magic. Grow roots on a branch, cut it off and you've got a new tree. amazing. The possibilities are almost endless.

Pot's nice as well. Keep us updated (I know you will ).

Regards

Richard

thanks richard... yup, air layering is fun if you have access to a good host tree.
and it is nice to skip several years in the development of girth and character.

next for this one is more ramification.

if i think of it i will post one with it leafed out.