eplov90
Sapling
I finally managed to find a decent Arakawa maple the other month and am now finalizing my plan for it. From an overall design perspective, I am leaning towards growing out a second trunk and making it a mother-daughter composition, but haven't settled on the front yet.
First things first, it has an obvious graft so I plan to ground layer in the coming weeks to get it on its own roots.
There is also a whole trunk section with no branches so I'll grow out a few whips to thread graft late next winter.
I'm particularly unsure of how to begin building the Apex -- any advice would be much appreciated.
Side note -- if I ground layer it, realistically, is there any way to salvage the plain AP stump that will remain to create a short, stout new tree? After I separate the Arakawa portion, if I thread graft an AP seedling or two through the stump, will it survive despite having been buried for a while.
First things first, it has an obvious graft so I plan to ground layer in the coming weeks to get it on its own roots.
There is also a whole trunk section with no branches so I'll grow out a few whips to thread graft late next winter.
I'm particularly unsure of how to begin building the Apex -- any advice would be much appreciated.
Side note -- if I ground layer it, realistically, is there any way to salvage the plain AP stump that will remain to create a short, stout new tree? After I separate the Arakawa portion, if I thread graft an AP seedling or two through the stump, will it survive despite having been buried for a while.