March 2021 Featured Article
Thread GraftingBy: Jim Beck—March 2021I have had this Ficus for some time. Recently a key branch died. I have decided to replace it with a length of another branch using a process known as thread grafting. I will thread the donor branch though a hole in the truck and as the branch grows its cambium will grow into and fuse with the cambium of the trunk.Here are pictures showing where the dead branch had been and the proposed new branch. Note the large space between the branches on the…