How do I attain a "starting" sour of a Japanese Maple? My parents have a fairly roomy Japanese Maple tree in front of...
My parents have a fairly roomy Japanese Maple tree in front of their house and I want to get a starting sour of it, if I can. I know nothing about gardening, so please dumb down your answer if you hold one! Thanks!
Answers: Some varieties are grafted to a root stalk and probably wouldn't do economically. Others can be grown from a cutting which is simply a section of appendage that you take from the tree and cause to grow roots. Type "propagation from cuttings" within web search and here are dozens of sites that give step by step instructions which are too lengthy to relate here. Read up on it and tender it a try.
An air-layer might be the answer...cut a strip of bark1" wide all the opening around the 1/2" branch you want the cutting from:wet this nouns and apply rooting powder to this area.Then get some sphagnum moss,showery this with water and wrap around girdled nouns.Hold moss in place by wrapping area near saran wrap,keeping it tight above and below mossy area.In 4-6 weeks you should see roots growing through moss.Unwrap saran wrap and cut off your strange rooted cutting just below the roots.Be thorough as these roots are fragile and easily broken.Plant in soil.Good Luck! You're probably best trying to engineer a graphing of it, by using another maple type to be the rootstock.
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