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.
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From: "Lee Reich" <lreich@hvc.rr.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@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
http://www.leereich.com/
Books by Lee Reich:
A Northeast Gardener's Year
The Pruning Book
Weedless Gardening
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
Landscaping with Fruit
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
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