Learn air layering a rubber plant, an easy propagation method. Rubber plant propagation by air layering method.
In rubber tree air layering, we do not cut the cutting from the stem but it is still
attached to the plant while growing roots.
Make a cut around the rubber plant stem in the hard outer skin between 2 nodes and remove the
skin and scrap lightly.
This is the rubber plant stem with skin removed between 2 nodes.
Roots will grow at the above node.
The top part of the rubber plant is going to be your new
rubber plant after air layering.
If it
is too hot, and you feel the bag is getting dry, you can open the polythene at the top
and spray some water to hydrate it again.
If you propagate rubber plant from the cuttings, then this size will grow in a year.
This is the advantage of layering process for rubber tree propagation.