Juniper graft?

zen

Hi all ,I...er... ummm usually just dig small trees from my yard or families yard's,...but this one day, I went to a nursery and actually bought one! A juniper ,not really sure what type, it is very upright but the whole thing is really too tall ,I think to do any thing really nice with. Sooooo,...I was wondering(remember "no such thing as a stupid question") could I just cut a big length of the trunk out and graft the top growth back down to the rootstock becuase the lower 1/16 of the trunk has some relly nice curves but if I tried to style it now the rest of the trunk would have that big "C" shape to it. Any help or advice on this matter will be greatly appreciated. Will? lol

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cbobgo

Grafting is possible, but it is a technique that must be done correctly to achieve a visually pleasing result.

Junipers back bud pretty well, so I would recomend giving your tree a hard prune, and see if some new growth will pop out closer to the bottom.

If you just bought it, why do you not know what kind of juniper it is? Was it not labeled?

- bob

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jguyett

How about just air layering the tree further up the trunk, where you would like the base to be. This would be the simplest and a foolproof method.

jg

Bonsainut

That question gets close to stupid.

Just kidding Zen.

Any possibility of a photo of this one. Maybe someone would have an alternate theory of design for it.

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zen

Here are some pics of the problem child.