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OBTAINING YOUR BONSAI 47

scion just below the join. The binding
can now be removed. To help heal the
scar and to make it less unsightly, cover
the wounds with mastic.
CLEFT GRAFTING: Here, the parent
stock is cut through horizontally. The
cut should be made with sharp sccateurs
or a saw and should be perfectly clean.
Trim the cut with the curved blade of a
grafting knife, which should also be used
to make a vertical slit in the centre of the
parent stock. Trim the base of the scion
with the curved knife blade until its
wedge shape slides easily into the slit.
Then tie the graft and, lastly, seal it with
The stock is cut through horizontally. The blade of a
mastic.
grafting knife is used to make a vertical slit.

Scion material is initially cut with secateurs 2. With a grafting knife, trim the base of the scion
although only the tip ofthe shoot is used for grafting. to a wedge shape.

I. Prepare the stock for a cleft graft by making a 3. Carefully fit the scion into the cleft so that the
vertical slit. The blade of the grafting knife cut tissue is in close contact with the cut tissue
should first be sterilized in a Harne. of the stock.