Sorry about the huge size of the pictures! I thought image shack resized them, but apparently not.

Also, here are some pics of another project. I'm trying to graft these two trunks together while growing it around a hunk of granite. We'll see what happens. The granite is already starting to get swallowed around the edges.

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The whole plant.

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A closeup on the granite chunk.

neat. some questions:

before removing the twine, did you notice the leaves on the grafted on part swell when you watered the entire plant? i'm guessing that's a good way to tell if the graft took.

how sturdy is the link between the two pieces?

The leaves are mostly plumped back up now, but I can tell that there's not enough space for enough water to get completely through, because some are still sort of wrinkly, while on a normal jade I'd think they'dve plumped up by now.

The link is fairly sturdy - after I removed the twine, I transported the jade out of my room, down the stairs and out onto the porch without supporting the top part. This morning I noticed that the weight of the leaves was bending the top part at the graft, but it still held. I reinforced it with some wire and am going to whack the top later this evening.

I tried grafting four different with no success. Norma

Norma-

Do you mean you tried grafting four different kinds of jades together, like Gollum and regular?

I realize this is an old thread but it gave me hope that I could save my broken Jade that met with gravity and the floor yesterday, I fear if the graft doesn't take I'll have to prune the other side to balance it out or keep it with a permanent crutch.

This was my first attempt last night using only a pink shotgun shell hull, black string, kabob skewers, toothpicks and some black electrical tape.
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This is my second attempt and I'm sealing the seams of the wound with wax the same as I have with hybridized fruit trees to keep it from oxidizing and sealing off the capillaries before the graft takes.
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I really hope this takes, I grew this baby from a little pair of 1/2" leaves I found at my folks ship center in a box of packing peanuts 18 years ago.

-Beaver

Well as I suspected a 90 degree graft was a bad idea...
The wax cracked when I moved it days after the first post I made and I noticed that the edges had already contracted...

I noticed a few days ago that it appeared that *if* the graft had taken it was only thru an area just smaller than a pencil...

Then yesterday morning I came out to the studio to find the graft had fallen off completely.

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Decided to try *once* more this time with an offset V cut, and using a small miter gauge to assure the cuts were 100% straight.

I used medical wrap, latex free, that sticks to itself and wrapped that sucker as tight as I could get it. When done I couldn't wiggle the grafted branch at all.

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I ended up adding a single strand of black tape at the center most point of the graft as it appeared that overnight the cooling of the house had let the medical wrap loosen a little.

Hopefully this time it takes, if it does I think next summer I'll dock the dangling branch on the left and the new plant at the base and graft those to the central stalk of this plant see if I can't rebuild some of the lost foliage.

Nearly Complete failure on this one. I think it got a little too humid out here and she rotted.

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I am beginning to think grafting a Jade is not possible. I have not heard one story of a successful attempt.

Christopher