davetree
Omono
Here is a nice little trident maple that needs a new leader. Rather than chop and hope, I did the sure thing and drilled a hole exactly where I want the new leader to start. I made sure that the bud was very close to the hole. I used a little copper wire to hold the graft in place. Here are the front and back pics and a close up of the graft. Everything above the graft was cut back to allow the new leader to dominate. There will only be three branches below the graft, the rest of the tree will be built from the graft. It shouldn't take too long to make a pretty nice tree from this.