DwightFloyd

Picked up this little maple at Lowes of all places. They claim it's a bloodgood but who really knows. I chose it thinking I might be able to make a twin trunk out of it some day. I'm not lookin for styling advice as it's so far away. What I'm looking for is hortacultural advice. I's a graft and the graft is pretty high so I'M trying to find a way to either lower the trunk ( raise the roots ) or eliminate the graft completely. I'm thinking of a form of ground layer so I've placed it in a " 15 " gal nursery pot. I didn't take it out of the pot , just cut off the top a few inches and cut some slots in the sides. It seems to have handled this fine. I didn't nick the trunk or use any rooting hormone as I just want to make life as easy as possible for the poor thing here in the desert.

Right now I have it located so that it receives about three hrs of morning sun but I think even thats too much as I have a lot of leaf burn. I've never seen a maple here that didn't have leaf burn even under a nursery cloth unless it was in almost complete shade. Soooooo I'm thinking of moving it under my mondale pines where it might get an hours sun each day.

Any advice will be appreciated.

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