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In general, layering is a method of rooting a plant stem while it is still attached to the mother plant.
After rooting, the rooted stem is detached from the mother plant and it becomes a separate plant.
Air layering of a plant is a way of clonal propagation, which means that the new plant will display the exact traits of the mother plant it was taken from. With this in mind, it is then easy to identify a mother plant with desirable traits and then to reproduce it using layering.
Clonal propagation has an added advantage, in that, plants propagated in this way will not have a juvenile phase and thus would produce much faster.
Air layering can be done with a variety of commercial on non-commercial materials. This would include commercial pot systems, high micron plastics, bottles, etc.
For this video, we will use a small commercial plastic soda bottle.
Start by cutting one side of the bottle open. At the bottom of the bottle, cut an opening for the bottom part of the stem.
Fill the bottle with a moist rooting mix.
Our mix consists or 40 % coir,
40 % peat,
20 % vermiculite.
Identify a healthy stem on the mother plant. Remove the bottom leaves.
At the point where you need roots to develop wound or grindle the shoot. As moringa has a herbaceous stem structure, be careful not to cut too deep as this will compromise the structural integrity of the stem and it can break.
Apply rooting hormone to the wound. Open up the bottle containing the mix. Slide it over the stem, close it up and tie it up with cable ties. Cover the bottle with black plastic to exclude light, this is beneficial for root development. After a couple of weeks, open the black plastic and inspect for roots. At the point were strong, white healthy roots can be seen, cut the stem, and remove the new plant. Pot it up in a pot or transplant in the field.

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