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No worries. I don't have any understock to graft them to so no rush. Thanks!

Update on the grafts. Sop far i've been successful with like 3 out of 12 . Some from not doing enough research and some from just using understock that was too small. I have 2 Beni Kawa and 1 Tamukeyama starting to leaf out nicely though so hopefully theyll be a success.

Well considering these are your first attempts a 25% success rate probably isn't too bad.

Think about it, you just took a piece of one living organism and attached it to a different living organism and get them to grow together.

Well all of the seeds I bought must have been very old. I have a few sprouts I'm going to take out and ant up tomorrow but to say I had poor germination would be a huge understatement.

2 out of 3 of my grafts failed so that 25% is more like 8.3% lol. At least my sango kaku was the survivor and no I'm not giving up. Next time I'm going to buy bigger root stock.

I also found a huge red jm at wally world for $20. I snatched up the healthiest, went back a couple days later to get another and they were all gone:(. 6 ft red jm for $20 is a crazy deal though.

Pics tomorrow.

Dionae wrote:I also found a huge red jm at wally world for $20. I snatched up the healthiest, went back a couple days later to get another and they were all gone:(. 6 ft red jm for $20 is a crazy deal though.

This was a picture sent by phone to me so its tiny, but these are at Aldi (discount grocery store). I didn't even know they sold trees. They're not 6ft tall looks more like 3' to 4' but they are only $12.99.

jwbates26 wrote:

Dionae wrote:I also found a huge red jm at wally world for $20. I snatched up the healthiest, went back a couple days later to get another and they were all gone:(. 6 ft red jm for $20 is a crazy deal though.

This was a picture sent by phone to me so its tiny, but these are at Aldi (discount grocery store). I didn't even know they sold trees. They're not 6ft tall looks more like 3' to 4' but they are only $12.99.

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Wow! That's crazy good. My local nursery usually carries about a dozen or so varieties but they run at least $50-$60 for small 2 foot trees.

The psychology of it is pretty interesting. I still feel like $60 for a tree is a lot but I've spent more than that on several of my Sarrs and close to that for several of my VFTs.

That is a great deal! I need to stop by and see if ours has them.

I've spent much more than $60 for a CP so $60 for a tree isnt bad imo. I paid $13 for small 6-12 inch JMs. Those were cultivars though.