Air Layering with Syngonium Albo Vol.1

Hi! We are @shinryoku_plant_interior based in Singapore.

In this post, we are happy to share our experiment for Syngonium Albo with Air Layering.

We adopted Syngonium Albo with long vine on the other day.

His vine is awesome and beautiful, but we wanted to propagate him because leaves are getting smaller and…simply because we want more pots…!

Since the Syngonium already had few of aerial roots from each nodes, we thought about cutting them and put them in water or moss.

But we were not sure if each of them will survive with few aerial roots.

So, we decided to try air layering which is safer side.

Pros of air layering

Air laying allows us to develop roots without cutting, which means plants still can get nutrition from mother plant while they grow enough roots to be cut off.

Usually aerial roots is not good enough to give enough nutrition to plants since they are different from roots in the soil.

And we can develop enough roots from aerial roots by doing air laying.

Also, it’s easy to check how much they develop the roots through plastic wrap.

You can observe and wait until right time come.

How to air layer

Air laying is actually very easy way to grow healthy roots.

What we used:

• Sphagnum Moss
• Plastic wrap

What to do:

1. Wet the sphagnum moss and wring it out.
2. Place it around the node and wrap with plastic wrap.
3. Make sure the moss covers aerial roots and keep it moist.

Result

Here is how they developed roots in 5 days!

We are really surprised how they grow roots this quick!

We did not expected this happened in 5 days. We assumed it will take about at least 10days to have such a thick and long roots.

As you can see, now we have low risk to kill the plants after cutting as we have enough roots.

We will cut and separate them into some pots, and hope each pots will have new baby leaf soon!