[NAFEX] Airlayering Jujube
Lon J. Rombough
lonrom at hevanet.com
Mon Oct 26 21:07:41 EDT 2009
Alternately, you might plant a young tree at a low angle to the ground
and layer a limb to the ground. Or plant it deep, cut it off and stool
the new shoots as is done to produce apple rootstocks. That would
avoid the problems of an air layer and once you had an own-rooted
layer, you could use it as a source of suckers.
-Lon Rombough
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Bassem Samaan wrote:
Thank you Lee,
I would like to give it a try next year. Would you think the air layer
has to be on current year's growth or previous year's wood? If it's
current year growth you can't attempt it until early summer, if it's
last years then one can attempt it earlier in the spring benefiting
from long hot period.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee Reich" <lreich at hvc.rr.com>
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Airlayering Jujube
> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:09:11 -0400
>
>
> In researching the literature on jujube for my book Uncommon Fruits
> for Every Garden, I didn't come across air-layering as a method
> for propagating this plant. One problem with air-layering any
> plant in cold climates is that air-layering usually takes many
> months, yet developing roots on an air layer could not survive
> ambient outdoor temperatures, to which they would be exposed up in
> the branches. Here is what I did write about clonal propagation of
> jujube in the jujube chapter of my book:
>
> Suckers, root cuttings, and grafts are ways to
> propagate superior jujube clones. A clone to be propagated by
> suckers or root cuttings must be on its own roots, that is, it
> should not be a grafted tree. Success with root cuttings is
> variable, depending on the clone, and plants grown from root
> cuttings will not develop the taproot of trees grown from seed.
> Stem cuttings root with difficulty.
>
> Grafted plants grow vigorously. Chip budding,
> T-budding, and whip-and-tongue grafting have all been
> successful---as long as scionwood is not chosen of stems destined
> to be deciduous. Jujube plants are precocious. Grafted trees have
> even been known to bear some fruit in the same season in which
> they were grafted!
>
> Lee Reich, PhD
>
>
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>
> Books by Lee Reich:
> A Northeast Gardener's Year
> The Pruning Book
> Weedless Gardening
> Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
> Landscaping with Fruit
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>
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Bassem Samaan wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Have anyone attempted air layering a jujube?
>> I know that the most common propagation of jujube is with
>> grafting. Cutting is possible with very limited success, but how
>> about air layering?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bass Samaan
>> http://www.TreesofJoy.com
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