In this simple and clear video, Brent Walston of Evergreen Gardenworks provides an excellent lesson in grafting scions onto root stock. In this case the scion is a Japanese black pine varietal called Hayabusa (Pinus thunbergii ‘Hayabusa’), which is a dwarf cork barked cultivar (nishiki kuro matsu) with very dense foliage. The root stock is your basic Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii).
Brent uses Japanese black pine as stock for a number of black and white pine cultivars.
If you want to try your hand at grafting, you’ll need a sharp grafting knife and some grafting tape.
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