Specifically, it says "Cutting grown plants, no graft union". How much clearer does it need to be?
The plants in question don't show any evidence of grafting to my eye.
Edit to add...I've purchased numerous plants from Brent and nothing has ever been misleading. He's a straight shooter.
It's not impossible to graft cuttings to each other. It doesn't say non-grafted tree like with the one described above, it doesn't say this tree isn't grafted, it only states that the
union isn't there. In the description of the maple above, it's clearly specified that those are non-grafted. In the one below, that piece of text is gone. As somebody who wrote content for travelling websites, that's something that rings a bell. It's how we screwed over customer care and insurance claims.
Plant related dictionaries aren't very clear in whether the union is "the point were scion and root base meet" (i.e a general description of a graft) or "A graft union is the
anatomy which is formed when grafting a rootstock to a scion." (to me meaning protruding callous material). If you search for 'bad graft union' you'll see that there are some clear examples of what a union semantically is to some people.
We could play this game of semantics for quite some time. I'm not a native English speaker, you'd probably win that argument any day of the week.
I hope I'm wrong. I want bonsai stores to surprise me with their works, and if it's not a graft, it's an extreme bend that deserves appreciation and some mad credits! But somehow I feel like this has a high chance of being a graft. There's something peculiar about it. It never hurts to question that, I think. Since it's drawing attention, and that's something we do/don't want in bonsai, right?
I'm sure Brent is a straight up guy, and I wish him all the happy customers he ever wants. But this entire thread and discussion could have been averted if he just copy pasted some text. He might have a overly enthusiast webpage writer pulling stuff like I did when I was a content generator, I don't know. I'm just connecting the dots, because I have placed those dots, and many like it, myself back in the days.
I'll keep my mouth shut until there's a consensus.
And yes, I'll come and apologize if it's not a graft.