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| I have this huge domestic plum tree in my garden and last month I began an air layer on one of the branches; fingers crossed it will take. 
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| May I suggest that the layer is overwrapped with some black plastic or other light excluding material which may be taken off from time to time to inspect for roots without disturbing the ball. Roots encountering light will turn back inward and might be there without being seen. That's a nice hefty layer. I like the parrot jibe
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Thanks Stymie,I should have mentioned that I used a black pot around the cut,tied together and filled with compost. The whole lot then wrapped in bubble wrap. I saw this method in a Harry Tomlinson book I have. That way when its ready you just cut the layer off and you have a new plant already in a pot.
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Sorry for the misunderstanding Larry. I too, use the split plant pot technique. Its particularly useful on upright material where it can be watered along with the general regime and not even wrapped.
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How long do you reckon it will take? I'm thinking July/August but have never tried it with a plum.
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Sorry, you'll have to play it by ear. As little as six weeks have been reported and I took seven years to air-layer a three inch thick Corylus avellana contorta. There's a nice big bracket for you
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Thanks Stymioe. Amazingly its been a month already-time flies eh!
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Are you still looking in Larry? We'd be very interested to know how the air-layer turned out.
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