Fig Air Layer Updates & A Simple Self Watering System

It's been a long summer. With a full time career and my own business, two kids, 2 blogs (this one and my photography one), a full time garden, youtube channel, landlord and countless forums, I need vacation. It's not that I'm lazy but where I can save time I'll do it.

So I thought about it, with so many plants who's gonna water my garden. The video below shows a quick and cheap way to keep things watered for a few days.

I also did a followup on my simple air layer technique.

+ Extra footage on the Tree of Life at Kalaloch Beach in Washington State.

Super Easy Method to Air Layering your Figs

I've seen and tried a few different air layering techniques. Well this is the simplest and quickest way that I've seen on how to do it.

Update:

Black Madeira from KK - Air layer

The Air layer on my KK Black Madeira is starting to root. Which is another great attribute to this strain. I have several strains of BMs and some are super slow growers and very difficult rooters.

Up Potting my Air Layered Fig

Time to cut the air layers that I started on 3/8/16. This is a magnolia fig.

Air Layer Article

New Fig Air Layers

7/26/15

It maybe a little late but I air layered a bunch of my figs today. I cut one end of a sandwich bag and slipped the entire thing over the branch that I want the air layering on. Next I scraped the area of the branch instead of girdling it. Then I use rooting hormone powder before filling the bag with dirt.

Update: Negronne air layer

My Negronne is pushing out a ton of side shoots since I started the air layering on it. It was what I intended  to do, so that's a good thing. It was growing too tall and bent. I prefer a bush form in my figs.

Still do not see any new roots yet so It's just a wait and see situation.

Update 8/24/15

It took 4 months but the roots finally grew big and strong on the air layer.

I decided to cutoff my air layer today. I threw the top into a 2 gallon and snipped off the larger leaves so that it would have an easier time adjusting to living off if its own roots.

Here's the base still in the ground. This used to be a twig with no leaves. Now it's lush with branching.