Follow up: Boxwood Air Layer

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air layer, Bonsai, boxwood, follow up

Over the past few years I have attempted multiple air layers on boxwood and have never done a follow up. Examples of posts that describe my attempts include Working Back a Boxwood and A Big Boxwood Experiment. The reason I haven’t been excited to do a follow up is… none of them have succeeded!

The tree made me do it.

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cutting, experiment, ficus, fig, leaf, propagation

I’ve joked for years that I’m trying to quit tropicals. I only have a handful – 7 or 8 trees. I don’t have any more window space to keep more in the winter, and I refuse to invest in grow lights when there are temperate species perfectly happy to spend the winter outside.

Then something like this happens!