A circular strip of bark having different size (2 cm, 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 cm) removed from one year old and healthy shoots. The plants used in the experiment were seven years old . A well prepared media having FYM, clay and silt in equal ratio was tightly wrapped around each layered branch in transparent plastic. All the air layered plants were frequently irrigated after the completion of air layering practice. The branches which showed successful development of roots in burlap had carefully removed from parent plants and kept under partial shade for couple of weeks to become hardened. All other cultural practices were kept uniform for all the treatments during this course of experiment.