Japanese maple

[Missa]

I was going to get one I found at Home Depot for $30 until I saw it was a grafted one.

Are most of these grafted or was this one in the minority?

How many of you who have J maples have grafted ones?

[Sunbeam56]

Japanese maples are grafted because 1) its a faster way to propogate a desireable strain, and 2) it gives the maple the advantage of a root stock that may be better suited to your area, or more disease and pest resistant.

I don't know why you would object to a grafted tree???
As long as you keep trimming the sports from the root stock, you have a healthy tree that is the type you asked for.
"Sports" are the sprouts from below the graft - they are the original root stock tree trying to grow around the graft. You just cut or pluck them.

If the grafted portion of the tree produces seed, it will be the same seeds that an ungrafted tree of that same variety.

[miguynmkoi]

Sunbeam knows her stuff    I have five Japanese maples and have helped friends with theirs and they're all grafted and beauties all the way.  A couple of my trees had seeds but they're just for show to me and I'm not even going to try to produce a tree from seed unless it happens naturally.

[LeeAnne151]

Almost all Japanese maples are grafted.

[Mikey]

I found this on-line regarding grafting:

"...These methods of plant reproduction are usually chosen because cuttings from the desired plant root poorly (or not at all). Also, these methods give the plant a certain characteristic of the rootstock - for example, hardiness, drought tolerance, or disease resistance.... "

[frloplady]

Is the only way to reproduce most/all apple trees as well!  DH is 2nd generation tree grafter and does is commercially.  We do over 200,000 grafts each spring!

[Sean]

Many Japanese maples are grafted on to dwarf root stock to keep them at small sizes for ornamental garden applications.

Cheers,
Sean

[Missa]

I went back & got a Garnet JM.



Now, if I don't kill it.