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15-Apr-2004

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Originally posted by D3rutat
but why are you so eager to do it? I mean, you can cover the graft by using the hammer method. Use a small hammer and hit the bark. This will destroy it and will force cambium formation which will thicken that area, but you must never hit more than 1/4 of the bark at a time. Did you understand ?

Could you use the hammer method to help reverse taper?

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D3rutat bonsaiTALK Master Join Date: Oct-2003 Location: Bucharest Country: Romania USDA Zone: Temperate AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 383	Depends. I;ve had a little Chat with Brent Walston some time ago and he told me that this method was use to fix minor imperfeections on a tree, but inverse taper is usually too large to fix withouut killing the whole tree.I don't know about the bark, on some species which grow bark fast it will be unoticable in about 2 yrs but on slower growers it might be a problem rather than a solution. Cheers, Razvan __________________ Bonsai Club Romania

16-Apr-2004

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hey Duartix; Your pendula Atlas Cedar is probably grafted onto Deodora Cedar rootstock as this is most common. Most of the grafts I have seen look just like yours when young but become less noticeable after a few years as the rootstock grows faster and develops rougher bark than the Atlas Cedar scion. If possible, plant in the ground as this speeds the growth. See the attached picture from the BonsaiTalk Galleries for a superb bonsai example of this variety.

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16-Apr-2004

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Quote:

Originally posted by duartix
@Geodude:
Did yours died from the air layering or was it something else?

The entire tree died from improper watering. The method I describe above came from Bob Pressler who has sucessfully propagated using this window method.

Good luck.

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