whfarro
Chumono
I'll PM you my shipping address... LOL. Nice stuff...
SD collecting 2013
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Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
thumblessprimate1
Masterpiece
Where do you get your grafting nails? They look just like the ones yenling83 is using over at Aichi En. http://www.yenlingbonsai.com/
I googled "grafting nails", odd stuff came up.
*correction: yenling wasn't using them, but he has a photo of them used in Japan.
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Jester217300
Shohin
There are a bunch for sale on the "Bonsai Sales" group on Facebook.
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
That's where I got mine...I know many who've looked for them and only found them in Japan. Grab them while you can!
barrosinc
Masterpiece
I wish we had a place in Chile to get yamadori junipers... 
These look so promising
These look so promising
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Separation anxiety...
I'd been weakening the scion below the graft for a year now, and noticed today that only about 1/16" wide live vein was still attached; if that, so I took the plunge today. We'll see. Decided to use a Kathy trick, wrapping the graft area with a cloth to keep the graft area moist for a while. Maybe it will help the graft continue to knit, and maybe it's not necessary.
I'd been weakening the scion below the graft for a year now, and noticed today that only about 1/16" wide live vein was still attached; if that, so I took the plunge today. We'll see. Decided to use a Kathy trick, wrapping the graft area with a cloth to keep the graft area moist for a while. Maybe it will help the graft continue to knit, and maybe it's not necessary.
garywood
Chumono
Ahhh B, why did you open that can
It does make a difference.
0soyoung
Imperial Masterpiece
You implying that one wants to keep the scion xylem intact to the pot while the photosynthesis products should be forced to go down the mother-stock's phloem to assure growth of a connected xylem (in other words, simply keep the pot and just sever the scion's bark+phloem+cambium on the pot side of the graft, like it is an air layer)?Ahhh B, why did you open that can
jomawa
Shohin
When I was young I tended to have a 55 - 60 lb backpack on and even though I was at altitude in the alpine areas (or higher) of WA State, I spent three quarters of my looking time focused on my steps so I wouldn't get my nose/body into the same proximity as my feet. Boy, with the fitness I had, what I could have packed out of those hills.
Sure I saw trees, and I've no doubt some stunning potential yamadori but I had'nt seen Karate Kid yet, (I believe my first introduction to bonsai). WA is full of trees and for the most part I took them for granted, kinda sorta still do yet able to appreciate more. Now that I'm older, Im wondering what I didn't "see".
Thanks @Brian Van Fleet for the many gathering pointers you've posted in this thread, and for unknowingly spuring me on to contact the Gifford Pinchot National Forest (boundary is kinda sorta just up the road from me) for the legal authorization to harvest a/some possible evergreens. This national forest contains Mt Adams, and Mt Saint Helens which took out millions of trees with one slight boom, and the area between these two mountains contain a fair amount of elevation, which contains a fair amount of stomping grounds of stunted trees. I'm interested in what their tree harvesting policy/amount is.
Also will speak to another agency re tree harvesting in an area I believe is also public land. This is lower down, closer to home, and contains the maple I've already got my sights on but have put off harvesting because I simply don't have permission to do so.
@Brian Van Fleet, thanks again for your input on bnut.
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
With grafting, failure is always an option...2 years down the drain.
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
That blows.
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
It's refreshing to hear someone mention the truth. Very often we get the newbie come this way saying that they plan on grafting this and that, like they know what they are doing and it's a simple matter with high success rates. The truth is as Brian has pointed out; an occasional source of disappoint.
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
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I feel your pain. I've been grafting shimpaku on this rmj for the last 2 years. Only one graft from last year appears to be alive...and 2 of the grafts started 2 months ago are drying up...arrrgh!!
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
Like Judy says.
That blows!
Dav4
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Yes it does. I've had great success grafting on other juniper species but not old, collected RMJs. I suspect I'm not cutting the groove to accept the graft deep enough...the wood below the cambium is HARD and a grafting knife isn't enough. The next groove I cut on this one will be with a wheel bit on my dremel.
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
I used power tools on mine too, but this on ended up with a too-wide groove. Though it really looked like it had fused.
All I know is I'm waiting a lot longer to consider separating the better one.
All I know is I'm waiting a lot longer to consider separating the better one.
RobertB
Chumono
Brian, do you have an update on these trees that you collected? How about your buddies? This was pretty interesting to me as I have found a few landscape junipers ive been thinking about.
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
The 4 I collected are doing great. I gave one away, styled one, and have left the other two to grow.
dirk hoorelbeke
Omono
First time i read about your collecting trip. Must be fun. Question about the failed graft. Is that area callousing over now, or still slow in growing? Nice to see old trees like this grow.
