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Originally Posted by NJF
Also, is it completely necessary to leave the remainder of the donor plant above the grafting union? As it's a potential shohin I'm not sure there will be room for this.
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I'm a newbie so take whatever I say with a grain of salt.
You have to leave the upper portion of the donor plant attached until the graft takes. Helps the graft to take, prevents donor roots from dying before graft takes. After the graft takes, you remove the upper portion, so you have a new root.
Should either
1. Carve a deep enough channel in main plant to seat all or nearly all of donor plant, to make sure they fuse together
or
2. Approach graft where you purposely meet the cambium layer of both plants (i.e. cut a slit on both and put the pieces together) Could be single cut or double cut.
If you did either your chances are better.
Some plants will just fuse by sticking them against each other, but not sure of Yew.