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Keep the layer
and soil in the
pot well watered

Rotate 90° each
week to ensure
each side gets
enough sun

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Cut transparent plastic sheeting large Pack the layered area with moistened Secure the plastic with wire and keep
enough to wrap around the trunk and sphagnum moss, and wrap the plastic everything from moving. Do not
fix it at the bottom either with a stapler around it, compacting as you go. Do not compact or close off the top too much:
or by wrapping wire around the trunk. place too much moss above the upper try to make a slightly open funnel at
Be sure that the base is tight and secure. wound: stop about 1in (2.5cm) above it. the top with space for water to be added.

Use tweezers
to remove as
much moss
as possible

The new
leading shoot

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Now you have two trees! Here, the top Remove as much moss as you can. If Saw off the old trunk to make a neat
section has developed an entire root necessary, gently dunk the layer in a radial root system. Ease back the roots,
system of its own, and the bottom tree bucket of water to help loosen it. A little tip the tree up, and cut the trunk back to
now has a new leader—what was once moss will not harm the tree but large within an inch or so of the new roots to
the lowest branch of the original tree. amounts may cause future root rot. create a very flat-bottomed tree.