What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Show. I'm here with Leslie

Halleck, a professional, and definitely a professional horticulturist, quite knowledgeable, the author of

gardening under lights and the upcoming book, Plant Parent parenting, easy ways to make

more house plants, vegetables and flowers. So if you've been listening this

week you know we've talked about a bunch of different propagating techniques,

different types of cuttings, and also even just going into specific plant type, succulents.

How do you be successful with those?

Today we're talking about a method that I have briefly mentioned

in another podcast episode, more of a general summary on air layering.

And so what I thought we could do for this show Leslie is maybe get a little deeper

into the botany of why this method works because I would say it's certainly one of the more unique

ones until you get into the world of perhaps grafting.

Right. So I would say that air layering is probably one of the more, I mean I don't want to call it advance because I don't want to scare anybody away from doing it, but it's probably the more advanced type of plant propagation that I include in plant parenting. I cut that off at grafting and tissue culture. I left those

for more advanced propagation manuals, but I felt that air layering is totally

doable by by most home growers and it's just something that's going to take a few

times to practice but it's really cool because a lot the problem that air layering solves for you as a plant keeper is a really

great solution so you know for for people that have large tropicals or

citrus or you know that fiddily fig

that hasn't been getting enough light as a lot of them don't and they've got

kind of leggy or that Drusinia that you've had for 10 years that's gotten kind of leggy and you don't want to lose your

plant right you don't want to give it up you don't want to lose it and and and you're

afraid to take a large cutting because you might not be successful with it.

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