I have had better success obviously .....
This is an oak - ALL the branches on this recently carved tree are grafted (thread). One is still on as you can see from the bent basal shoot:
This is an cotoneaster. I grafted a basal sacrifice branch on when it was in the ground thickening up. Over a decade later and the top had to be cut away due to dieback / coral spot. It now forms the entire tree. There's an entry hole still visible on the left.
Approach grafts on a large juniper - changing it's foliage type to a more desirable scale type (blauuw's):
I will take a pic of the thread graft of the larch in my dad's garden when I go to visit and add this in too.
Other than maples - what else have
YOU grafted? And just so we're all on the same page I'll never comment on things I haven't done or been successful in. All the species above are harder to graft than trident maple which calluses over very quickly as well as the donor branch thickening quickly. I'm being serious saying that if you're only having 50% success with maples then your technique is poor, it's almost foolproof.
