These were just pulled out of the ground, put in a wet bag, brought home after walking to the supermarket, and now I’m going to pot them all up together and see what survives, maybe I’ll have a Japanese maple to give my friends.
Especially being in box elder, I will recommend burying the graft union, but maybe I’m wrong, box elder suckers like crazy, but sometimes that because the original tree produces almost no leader hormone. If the grafted variety produces a lot (nearly all popular varieties produce above average amounts, especially weeping varieties) then it may surpress all the suckers, as it did with my Callery pear Frankentree where the original tree practically isn’t even pushing buds, I wonder if the apples or Asians pears are the dominant ones? We’ll see soon with my outdoor Japanese maple grafts, hopefully.
This one had tiny leaves out of a bud already and in the end I decided to save one and wrap it under a stretched later of Parafilm because it’s just a chip bud and seemed too easy to dry out, hopefully it doesn’t rot.