Any gardening/arborist nerds here? My stepson is into air-layering plants (an easy propagation method), he's done quite a few between our yard and his dad's. I didn't know about it until I saw him do a few. So I thought it'd be fun to go do a few of my dad's. I've wanted a fig tree for a while, but instead of buying one I figured it would be cool to have a "legacy" tree of sorts, plus one of dad's fig trees has outstanding genetics, the kind that makes you say "Yeah, I'll take a clone of that in my yard." He also has a nice vitex chaste that I just like the looks of, and the wife and I were planning on planting the air-layer in our front yard.
They didn't go well. They rooted well but didn't survive transport and planting. Must be harder than the kid lets on.