A tip from Skip

[Chris Di Nola]

HI Guys

I love PJ Figs & the arial roots that they shoot out so here is a little tip i use to help them reach the ground before the sun fries them.

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If you have nice heatly arial root and you want to move it, drill a hole where you would like it to go & then feed the root through & in time it will graft into position.

By the way i remove the straws once the root has hit the soil using a sharp craft knife.

Cheers
Chris

[Jamie]

good work skip

i have seen the straws used before but not thread graft of an airial root, its so obvious isnt it dunno why i didnt think of it, it allows to position the root exactly where ya want it.


jamie

[Joel]

Same as Jamie!

Cool. I'm going to do that to one of my Ficus macrophylla, Moreton bay figs. So simple. Why didnt i think of it?

Joel.

[aaron_tas]

excellent tip skip

you've just inspired me further to make a hot house...