...halfway up the tree?
I had always assumed that when people talked about being careful to not let the root stock of a grafted tree take over we were talking about shoots growing from below the graft and eventually becoming dominant?
My folks have this butterfly maple in their garden - just a supermarket purchase a few years ago - which has absolutely flown. But visiting this weekend it looked mostly standard Japanese maple from the front. Tracing back, I’ve drawn the red line where the root stock first appears from the trunk.
Obviously, and completely altruistically, I’ve told mum I’ll sort it for her with an air layer in the spring :)
