Broadleaf division: Stella's chinese Maple

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Bought 3 maples saplings 2 months ago for grafting purposes. I seriously thought this one was dead, and then in last week it sprouted a shoot. So here we go
 

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Reported yesterday. Was surprised at the tremendously long straight root. So I have taken 4 root cuttings and really hoping they will be successful as 2 of them can turn into nice trees and 2 of them I can then still use for my grafting project
 

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With a huge straight taproot. I managed to get some root cuttqings. The 2 small ones will have to be for my grafting project. Really holding thumbs the 2 bigger ons is successful as they can become great trees
 

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So I've learned maples will not grow from root cuttings. So I stopped nursing those 🙈

Spring Growth
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Pruned the dead parts off and back to 2 leaves
And hopefully I cat get a cutting to root
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