This is a close-up of the needles just after I had finished up with them.
What’s so special about splitting?
To begin with you enforce healing at the borders of the trees where they are actually approach grafted to one another.
Additionally the growth is more outwards from the base. In a simpler example (
no longer available to photograph) it was possible to remove the armature from within after even a single growth season.
Last but not least… you get at least two seedlings for the price of one (
I you successfully split them and manage to keep them alive of course)
I personally do not choose to split the plants. In the case of the cypresses I have preferred to do so to encourage a possible grafting. I have never grafted a cyprressus before… And have not had too good experiences with their healing either.
So this is an experiment in many ways for me to learn from. I’ll report the developments. So far: healthy (
though it has only been 20 days)
Black
(
Guess I have now publically lost my title of being a sensative guy?!)