• Sunday, March 21st, 2004
This is the problem area. It is right above the cut at the stump. As you can see the branches above are starting to thicken the trunk, so this needs to be addressed now.
A small drill bit is used, just slightly bigger than the branch I will use for the graft.
I used a new shoot from an existing branch. This branch will be removed once the graft takes hold. Once the shoot was pushed through the hole, the area around the thread graft was sealed with grafting paste. This is the
grafting paste that I use
Two more thread grafts will be done in this general area to help thicken the trunk. March 2004
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• Sunday, March 21st, 2004
This spring I was hoping for a problem area area to bud out. However no such luck. The trunk is starting to develop reverse taper because of the branch development above. So I need to do a few thread grafts to get some branches to grow to thicken the truck and to fill out the tree. March 2004
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• Sunday, December 21st, 2003
Winter (December) 2003. Tree has gone dormant but shows branch development. First branch graft took and had thickened up to almost a half inch in one season. More branches are needed in bare areas. However the lowest branch on the right side was the tread graft.
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• Saturday, June 21st, 2003
Thread graft used to create first branch June 2003.
View of branch and trunk development with thread graft in place. Back of tree shown.
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