An unusual Trident

[markyscott]

Cut paste back on.

 

[markyscott]

A season of wild growth. Runners are 6’ long.



Scott

 

[markyscott]

Good callous growth. The wound healing is progressing, but it will take as few years.

Before and after.



Scott

 

[markyscott]

There was about 1/2” of callous growth all around the wound. The bottom ~1 1/2” of the wound closed.



Scott

 

[markyscott]

Reactivity the callous and reapply the cut paste.



Scott

 

[markyscott]

This season I’ll use the long shoots for thread grafting. One or two will exit through the callous to help with the healing. The rest I’ll cut back, but the focus is on growth to heal the wounds.

Scott

 

[just.wing.it]

This season I’ll use the long shoots for thread grafting. One or two will exit through the callous to help with the healing. The rest I’ll cut back, but the focus is on growth to heal the wounds.

Scott

When will you do those thread grafts Scott?
Just as buds are moving??

 

[markyscott]

When will you do those thread grafts Scott?
Just as buds are moving??

Anytime between now and spring is OK. As you approach spring and the buds begin to swell, you have to drill a bigger hole to accommodate the buds and run a greater risk of breaking one off.

Scott

 

[just.wing.it]

Anytime between now and spring is OK. As you approach spring and the buds begin to swell, you have to drill a bigger hole to accommodate the buds and run a greater risk of breaking one off.

Scott

Yeah, I was wondering about that too...cool!

 

[markyscott]

Yeah, I was wondering about that too...cool!

If you look at the Grafting 101 thread, there’s a discussion about timing as well as instructions on how to thread graft starting here.

S

 

[thumblessprimate1]

If you look at the Grafting 101 thread, there’s a discussion about timing as well as instructions on how to thread graft starting here.

S

Always great to see you work. Inspirational to say the least. I just grabbed a Shiner and got a thread graft done in a second that I had been planning for monrhs.

 

[Lars Grimm]

@markyscott any experience or thoughts about bridge grafting or thread grafting next to the scar? Theoretically it makes sense to me that this would increase the flow of nutrients to the area and thus promote faster wound healing.

 

[markyscott]

@markyscott any experience or thoughts about bridge grafting or thread grafting next to the scar? Theoretically it makes sense to me that this would increase the flow of nutrients to the area and thus promote faster wound healing.

Hi Lars. I’ve tried bridge grafting before, but I didn’t like the results very much in the case I tried. Al called it at the time. This time I’m just focusing on growth. It’s healing quickly and I don’t thing I need extra grafts to close the wound.

S

 

[markyscott]

Lots of work today. I let it grow long over the season with no pruning, so shoots were up to a good 8’ long.



Scott

 

[markyscott]

I used the long shoots to thread four new grafts. All of them went through the callous of the wound to help with healing. I may keep some of them for branches in the eventual design.



Scott

 

[markyscott]

All done with cutback, wiring small shoots and grafting.



Scott

 

[markyscott]

Of course, all that growth = tons of roots, so it’s time to repot. 2 years since last repot.


Pot is fully colonized with roots and watering is getting hard.


Scott

 

[jriddell88]

did you modify the lift table to have the off road wheels or did you buy it like that?

 

[markyscott]

Work the bottom, then the sides. Then back into the old pot.


Scott

 

[markyscott]

did you modify the lift table to have the off road wheels or did you buy it like that?

Modified. I have a post on it somewhere. I’ll try and find the link.