Hello everyone, if you'd like, I can present a technique I've invented (if it hasn't already been invented, of course...). It's called Braided Grafting. Virtuous Fruit Spiral.
Let's take an apple tree as an example, grafting a common apple tree onto a wild apple tree. If we look at it closely, this is brutal. I propose postponing this massive trauma, breaking it down into mini-traumas, so that the plant never stops growing.
We will begin by braiding the new branches, which will become trunk-branches. These will grow from an early pruning of the bud at the main tip of the crabapple tree. This will cause the weak lateral branches, or "suckers," to each become a new trunk. These new trunks, without touching each other, will serve only as an initial guide with ample space, because later they will fuse together, forming a single, much more solid structure than the previous one. I say "will eventually" because this will happen in the not-too-distant future, when they reach the indicated age of about two years, during the winter.
Let's assume we have left four branches on the crabapple tree and have braided them (a little) together, if desired. They will still retain some capacity for interlacing for a while, always with care. All the trunk-branches are twisting together and pointing upwards.
And here we will begin grafting onto the four new trunks of the crabapple tree. And we won't do it traumatically, because... if it takes more than 60 days to begin photosynthetically functioning again, to provide energy to the root system's capacity... these first 60 days are for starting to "recharge the batteries" of the energy spent by the roots to supply the energy needed to "weld that external agent." I'm talking about common grafts where the plant has to be in the dark, and if we look at it closely, that's a long time... let's simplify... a graft is made on a 2-year-old wild apple tree that takes 2 months to take root. What does that mean? That the apple tree will suddenly not only have to be without energy, but will have to use a large part of that residual energy to fuse the graft itself.
How long does a small tree live if you cut off the trunk and branches? How long does a stump with some trunk live? I want to start this topic in case there's interest and I can share it with you.
