• 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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• Saturday, August 21st, 2004
By the end of Summer this tree was well on its way to a full recovery. Notice however the leaves on the left branch. They have reverted back to the full size leaves. Remember Ficus Too Little is a mutation and will at times revert back to its original tree type. I will remove that branch in time to grow one with smaller leaves. (August 2004)
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• Wednesday, July 21st, 2004
July 2004, The dwarf crape myrtle has begun to bloom. As you can see the flowers are much smaller than the regular crape myrtle. The branches are just weeks away from being fully grafted. I will most likely leave the two trees attached for the remainder of the summer just to be certain.
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• Monday, June 21st, 2004
With all of the new growth recently on this tree I decided to defoliate the tree. I did this for two reasons, first is to shrink the size of the leaves. However I also did it to send more energy to the thread grafts. As you can see in the picture to the left, two of the three grafts are going strong. One didn’t make it. However by leaving only leaves on the graft branches they will thicken up and grow faster as the rest of the tree is producing leaves. I did this last year and it worked very well. I also have on branch with leaves that I will use to finish the third and final graft. It should be ready in about 2 weeks. June 2004
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