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Naturesart, It is the belief by many that Juniper ( the living section) is a poor candidate for Tanuki because the callous recedes as the juniper heals. Originally Tanuki were created by binding the two sections, not fastening them. Raffia,taffeta, even grafting tape were used to bind these two pieces. On most species the callous would grow , squeezing between the wrapping and deadwood. The callous binding itself to the wood as it went (imagine that no glue or screws a union by nature alone) So with the junipers trait of having its callous recede, it was deemed an unsuitable candidate.

Recently people have decide to just go ahead and screw or glue there living scion to its dead counterpart. Trying to make the juniper issue a non issue. I have seen quite a few of these and if you look closely very few pull it off successfully. Always being a gap between deadwood and deadwood on the scion where the living tissue has pulled back.

So the issue isn't really Juniper on Juniper. I believe what they were trying to say or mis-communicating was using Juniper as a scion.

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