alpineart wrote:Hi Jak , there is a reason for using advanced stock for Phoenix Graft of Tanuki . You efforts are heading in the right direction however it will take years to develop a tiny junper into a fused graft . Advance junipers are well developed and can easily be trained onto driftwood or interesting mediums . Even 5 year old Junipers may take another 5 years to actually fuse in place or grow enough foliage to be a workable specimen . Markets are good for finding advanced stock for as low as $5 tube stock can be purchased for $2 at most nurseries but they require a couple of years to get some growth happening . You need plenty of branching and a good trunk for the starter and allow it to grow on untrimmed for a season or two to thicken the set trunks/branches into the grooves . Good effort all the same .
Cheers Alpineart
Hey mate,
Thanks heaps for your advice, everywhere i read said something different, either seedlings or matured Juniper which have been shaped to the driftwood roughly before grafting. I couldn't get either of those stages at the nurseries up here, so this was the only way
, It's good to know roughly how long im looking at, itll be a slow 5 years just positioning the trunk/ branches not so much the fusing of the trunk. Cant wait to buy a gouge and proper drill bits for my next piece :p. Cheers for your time, Ill post some more pics once it has some real growth.
Jak
