Clone a tree in 4 months!

Why should you use this method?

• It’s one of the less likely to fail options as the limb has support for the mother plant.
• You can do it in the spring and fall.
• It’s very easy and fast.

How does it work?

• The tree has a xylem that carry’s water and nutrients up to the leaves, the phloem carry’s the sugar down to be stored in the roots. So, when you scrape away the bark and cambium this removes the phloem. The plant thinks oh I have no roots and need to make some to store sugars. But the top still gets water and nutrients from the rest of the plant and therefore has a constant supply of nutrients to grow roots and continue making new leaves.

What you need:

• Air layering balls.
• A razor blade or grafting knife.
• Long Fiber Sphagnum moss (LSF), or Coco Coir at field capacity.
• Spray bottle.
• Clonex.
• A paint brush.
• Tin foil.

Step by step:

• Select a branch the size you want your tree to be but remember the root ball will be the size of the air layering balls, so don’t pick one to big.
• Cut the bark and cambium off in a 1″ long strip all the way around the stem of the tree leaving the wood only it should be a white color.
• Paint the Clonex on the limb side where the bark is.
• Put the LSF into the ball packing softly and then snap it shut around the limb end of the wound.
• Wrap the ball in tin foil.
• Take of the ball every week and check the moisture levels, if need be, spray the root ball down.
• Carefully pot up and do not disturb the root ball.