AusBonsai

HI,

I've been considering trying to fuse the whips of an azalea I have together. Its the typical B***nings special that my missus liked the flowers on, now that the novelty have worn off for her I would like to go to work on making something of this plant.

The question I have is will this shrub fuse into a trunk if I pull the whips up into a trunk and apply grafting tape?

Or will the trunk rot under the tape?

Thanks in advance.

hi mate

yepo they should fuse no problem, the big bases you see on more advanced azalea are from roots and branches that fuse together

Azalea will fuse quite easily and is a great way of getting trunk girth

Ken

thanks guys.

time to deploy the grafting tape.