Whats Happend

[atree]

Saw this cherry today,

 

Is it reverting back or has the graft not taken correctly

 

Whats going on?

[Dave D]

will be interesting to see it in leaf and blossom/fruiting.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

wow, never seen an ornamental cherry grafted onto serula stem, neat trick done for bark interest and flowers no doubt, hasnt paid off though!

 

this one needed more trial time!

[agg221]

From the side of the graft you can see, it looks like it's taken fine, but hasn't been maintained properly afterwards. You often get growth from latent buds on the stock just below the graft in the early years, particularly when it's high worked. Something to do with the damage from the incision promoting hormone concentration I suspect. These shoots need rubbing out when small, otherwise it ends up looking like the above. Bit late to do anything about it on this one.

 

Alec

[atree]

So they've been grafted(obviously) but have just done there own thing?Due to the cells and all that..?

[janey]

In this case, would the grafting have been done so that the trunk was gorgeous and glossy and the crown produced more ornamental flowers than the P serrula do you think?

 

I know I'm wrong, but when I first saw the pic I thought of a graft chimera with one of the spp. breaking through.