I've had this juniper ( sabina) that I bought at home depot about 4 years ago and I've used it as a practice tree for approach grafting as at first I couldn't see the tree within the tree. At first I thought a good informal upright could be made and so I approach grafted a new apex but after a while I couldn't take it anymore as obviously a cascade would be the best for this material. I repotted the tree last year and just a few days ago I could finally bend the trunk down by making a major cut on the main trunk but like an idiot I took it off the top and not the bottom. I don't know what I was thinking. After I took a nice wedge almost down to half the thickness i started to bend it to test if it was ready to be prepped and wired it hit me that I f'ed up. My question is could If I wanted to cut under or near the cut I took off the top could I graft a branch just to fill it in? So live tissue goes to this area and in a few years maybe I could try doing this again from the bottom or am I screwed and I need to make a cut as far away from the area as possible?
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