Air Layering Balls

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As a gardener there are times when you want to clone a woody stemmed plant, this takes much longer than soft-stemmed plants and this is where air layering comes in. You remove a ring of bark about 1/2 an inch wide from a branch and then put rooting hormone on the wound. Next, you fill two halves of an air layering ball with moist peat moss and then place the halves over the ring you cut on the branch, use the clips to hold the air layering ball closed and you can wrap the whole thing on plastic to help keep the moisture in. after 1 to 6 months, there should be roots growing in the peat moss and then you can cut the branch off below the air layering ball, remove the air layering ball and plant the new clone. I hope you find this useful. Hint, print it in white to help it stay cool in the sun.