Re: Air Layering / Air rooting
Ken from what I understand it is best to do it only one per vine, so you are basically just doing just 1 cutting, the only thing as Wijaya confirmed, the advantage is that you get a rooted plant for sure because the cutting is still being given nutrition by the main plant. The disadvantage is that you only get 2 plants at the end, the main one and the new one. Not the same as doing cuttings which you can do almost 1 per node if you like to gamble. I think Air layering is best done with species that are known to be hard to do cuttings on.
Wijaya, you did not try doing 2 airlayering at the same vine right? I suspect that is dangerous because it might kill the whole plant and leave you with nothing.
Good info also Wijaya that you did it on the woody part, that is very very good info, because I always wonder what to do with vines that the woody part is quickly catching up to the green part. So we an do airlayering on it so you get a "fresh" plant, you don't end up with 2 plants, but at least the new one will be fresher than the one that is becoming too woody.
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Arvin
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