Here's a fun and interesting technique for propagating some of your favourite plants. It’s called air - layering and it’s just like taking a cutting only you leave it on the plant. It’s excellent for growing woody plants like shrubs, fruit trees, natives - all sorts of things.

There’s really nothing to it. All you do is find some healthy shoots that are at least pencil thickness - something that looks like it’ll be a nice little plant when you remove it. 

Next step, use a clean sharp pair of secateurs to make an upward cut into the stem just below a node or leaf joint - that’s where the roots will form - and dab a little rooting hormone around the cut to encourage roots to form quicker.

You also need something for the roots to grow in like some coir peat or sphagnum moss. It needs to be moist but not wet, so soak it first then give it a squeeze to get rid of any excess water.

The trick with this is to pack some of it under the cut to keep it open. Once that’s done, all that’s left to do is wrap the whole thing up - with some additional growing medium - in sheet of alfoil making sure that it’s quite air tight. That’ll stop the growing medium from drying out.

It can take several months for roots to form, but once they do you can cut it off, pot it up and you’ve got a new plant.