Grifter sold me a graft?

[butlern]

Relatively new (to me) Sharp's Pygmy (SP).

Not sure, so querying here... does this look like a graft to your collective expert eyes?

Just not sure if the change in bark texture/color is normal for a SP on it's own roots (or whether SP are never/never found on their own roots).



Slightly panned view:


Full tree in all it's underdeveloped glory:

 

[ysrgrathe]

You can grow Sharps from cuttings.

 

[Stickroot]

Relatively new (to me) Sharp's Pygmy (SP).

Not sure, so querying here... does this look like a graft to your collective expert eyes?

Just not sure if the change in bark texture/color is normal for a SP on it's own roots (or whether SP are never/never found on their own roots).

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Slightly panned view:
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Full tree in all it's underdeveloped glory:
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Let's see the other side?
From this side I'm gonna say not grafted. I see and take apart 100s of grafts a year from some of the best!
John Tennant couldn't pull one that slick off with a Pygmy.

 

[ajm55555]

Not a graft in my opinion. Usually you can clearly spot a V shaped cut or a difference in trunk size, bark color or different marks. None here.
There are also similar circular patterns from growth seasons everywhere.

 

[RKatzin]

Doesn't look like a graft to these old eyes. This discoloration is normal aging of the bark.
The second pic is a graft union. It was smooth and streamline when I got it. The root stock grows faster than the Makawa and the bulge at the union forms.

 

[just.wing.it]

Hahaha!....
Grifter...
I love that word...

 

[butlern]

Thanks for there feedback, mates.

Other side. The partially apparent "V" got me started down this avenue of angst:

 

[just.wing.it]

If that's a graft, it's a damn good one.

 

[ajm55555]

That V line is very suspicious... I'm starting to change my mind. It seems a very well done graft, maybe the best I've seen. Not one that needs to be removed.

 

[pweifan]

Tell me if I'm out of line here, but this tree seems like a prime candidate for ground layering. From what we can see, the nebari doesn't look like anything worth preserving anyhow. Maybe kill 2 birds with 1 stone?

 

[M. Frary]

Maybe kill 2 birds with 1 stone?

I killed 5 wild turkeys with a truck once.

 

[LanceMac10]

I killed a truck on Wild Turkey.....

 

[just.wing.it]

I saw a wild turkey attack my friend once, but no one died....

 

[Ironbeaver]

My wife was once attacked by a domestic turkey.

 

[petegreg]

As a little boy I was chasing down a peacock at the Zoo, the poor bird run over my head, neck and back and that's why I'm a weirdo till now...

 

[M. Frary]

I'm a weirdo till now...

You giving it up?

 

[petegreg]

... giving up hunting ...too old to change myself and growing elms indoors...

 

[LanceMac10]

I killed a truck on Wild Turkey.....

Don't fear, it was off-road.....and already stuck.....technically you can fix a wayward rod. You know after you fix all the other stuff that's been broken.
Can you imagine if we had smart-phones thirty years ago?


Mightta' broke some Mann Acts on that weekend!!!





I'm not saying I choked anybody......... without their consent! Relax everyone, I gave fare-warning....maybe ignore me for the next 150 or so hours.....

 

[Vin]

It really looks like it's just barking up to me. In another 10 years the whole trunk will be brown.

 

[Rob_phillips]

I must say if it was a graft it would show up more that that so i vote not a graft