A couple of months ago I attended a great class offered by the Southern California Rare Fruit Growers Association. It was on air-layering.
Air-layering is a technique to propagate woody trees by tricking them into believing that a branch has been cut off while it is still attached to the tree. This allows the branch to continue receiving water from the main tree so the branch doesn’t wilt. But the branch thinks it has been cut off and tries to grow roots.
I was all enthusiastic, came home, and air-layered a lot of my trees. There were so many, I jokingly refer to them as my tin foil fruit.
I opened up several a couple of months ago and a few had little roots started so I wrapped them back up. I thought that they should “ripen” a while longer. With some light rain predicted for Thursday, I decided I would pot the ones that looked good so I started opening up the tin foil fruit and here is one of the better ones. A lot of them didn’t work but enough did that I’m happy about it for a first time attempt.
