I purchased this one for $45 from Rockbank Nursery. It’s a tall straight tree, so I thought I’d try air layering it to get two trees.
…and for the record, the documents:
So, after waiting until budding started in November, I put on the air layer.
The leaves are very pretty when they first bud.
Over the next few months I had healthy growth despite the air layer:
Then in April 2018 I cut the tree in two. The bottom half stayed in the big pot for a while, while the tops half gets a new home.
As it turns out, I cut way too soon. It had been 4 months from spring to autumn, which I had though was long enough. The tree had started forming these… buds? Calluses? , which I thought would act like proto-roots.
Nope. the top half was dead.
So the air layering attempt fails. I’ll try again, with much more patience. No cutting until there’s actual visible roots.