Probably a great method for most trees, but my fig tree will produce perfect clones if I even just spill a bit of water in the wrong place when watering it 😂
I have this kind of plastic balls for air cloning, but fig is so easy to root cuttings straight in the ground or pot, that it's the last plant I would use the balls on, it's just an unnecessary step. I use them for things like apples, stone fruits, privets, pistachio, quince, grape vine, citrus etc.
I've returned to work multiple times and all of my figs are topped at different stores. Thought it was store employees but thinking its gorilla gardeners.
Love your videos, but please don't use peat moss. Peatlands are vital carbon sinks that have been stripped to meet the demands of the horticultural industry around the world. There are many non-peat alternatives that don't have such a harmful ecological/climate impact
You should grow mulberries there like a faster growing wild fig relative that’s looks like big long raspberries especially Pakistan varieties and Australian mulberry are huge. In my climate mulberries can get that big but still get big enough to be edible. There extremely heat, cold, drought resistant, there is dwarf varieties, they grow easily from cuttings. They easily can be grafted and make sweet fruit.
Figs will root easily with no rooting hormones and cut clean from the donor plant without the need for air layering. However airlayering gives the gardener time to focus on other things without having to tend to cuttings. Either way it's always amazing to propagate your plants virtually for free!
I have a 12 bulb set of these in 3 sizes, tried this using honey for rooting, never took. Branch didn't die, no illness or excess predation, just healed over.
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Love this! Have you had success with citrus? 🍊
Very cool!
why didn't you de tangle the roots
Neat!
So cool
Great video. It is so great to open the ball and see a mass of roots. It is a great way to get more plants.
Sorry mate as an environmentalist and horticulturist I can't stay subscribed anymore condoning the use of peat moss.
Great idea, be easier than doing cuttings I think.
Cloning is not always good like the panama disease
Would this work on azalea?
Plastic bag with soil and root town wrapped around the tree will also work
Isn’t that extremely fascinating? Crazy how roots appear. Life is trippy!
That’s not a clone. It’s a severed limb.
Can you use Coco Coir for this? Or do you need the nutrients in the Peat Moss? I just know a lot of people hate Peat Moss.
I read that you're not supposed to use rooting hormone on edible plants. Is that true?
Ooo I need to 3D print some for my hydrangea
Probably a great method for most trees, but my fig tree will produce perfect clones if I even just spill a bit of water in the wrong place when watering it 😂
I have this kind of plastic balls for air cloning, but fig is so easy to root cuttings straight in the ground or pot, that it's the last plant I would use the balls on, it's just an unnecessary step. I use them for things like apples, stone fruits, privets, pistachio, quince, grape vine, citrus etc.
I've returned to work multiple times and all of my figs are topped at different stores. Thought it was store employees but thinking its gorilla gardeners.
For figs, all you really have to do is put a stick in some soil. It’ll root on its own. You don’t even need rooting hormone.
I've been meaning to try out those air layering balls. i guess now I have to finally go buy some lol
but how long before that gives fruit?
I've seen people do the same thing with a plastic bag lol
I love me some figs. Got some beside the barn, easy to grow
Love your videos, but please don't use peat moss. Peatlands are vital carbon sinks that have been stripped to meet the demands of the horticultural industry around the world. There are many non-peat alternatives that don't have such a harmful ecological/climate impact
Genius! Let’s see the buds so we can celebrate along with you!!
Will this work with blueberry bushes?
I just cut and propagate, less work
Could this technique be used year round or during a certain season?
What are those black containers called and where can I get some?? You think I could also use it for cloning roses?? 🤔
It is not called clone. It is not a new thing neither
Why wouldn't you use onions which is a natural source of a rooting hormone?
You should grow mulberries there like a faster growing wild fig relative that’s looks like big long raspberries especially Pakistan varieties and Australian mulberry are huge. In my climate mulberries can get that big but still get big enough to be edible. There extremely heat, cold, drought resistant, there is dwarf varieties, they grow easily from cuttings. They easily can be grafted and make sweet fruit.
Does it produce right away or do you have to wait a few years?
That is so cool!
Now that's a perfect root "ball"!
Figs will root easily with no rooting hormones and cut clean from the donor plant without the need for air layering. However airlayering gives the gardener time to focus on other things without having to tend to cuttings. Either way it's always amazing to propagate your plants virtually for free!
Always used strange wrap and duct tape. I love the black ball things!!
Where can I buy one?? ("Shut up and take my money!")
Would you share where you got the black round form (or what it is called)?
Air layering aka maricotting.
What kinda of hormone do you use for the roots ?
I have a 12 bulb set of these in 3 sizes, tried this using honey for rooting, never took. Branch didn't die, no illness or excess predation, just healed over.