• Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Well what can I say? The top of this tree in the picture above was horrible. It all just needed to go. Look how much bigger the trunk looks now, and what great movement. The new leader is a thread graft from the branch coming out of the left side. By the end of this year this tree will have shape and nice branching. Mar 2007
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• Saturday, August 21st, 2004
This image is about 4-5 months later. You can see that the thread graft took. The branch on the left is the source of the branch and is the same size as when the thread graft was started. On the right side is where the branch came out and is not grafted to the cambium on the right side. At this point I was able to clip off the branch on the left side and the branch continued to grow.
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• 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, 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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