The broom has a very nice shape!
Maybe you have to spread some scions to other grafters as well.
Then the grafting result could be better, because everybody has his own experiences and skils...
Good luck for next time!

Any chance to see a pic of your succesful grafted one of this broom?

Congratulations to interesting finding with conical shape .... sometime it is not easy get scions of the original WB, we a well known. Sometimes it's a great adventure.
Adventure is also grow a new plant.
The best is yet feeling, then have it in the garden.
L+M S

Killer broom. Next time you have scions I'd like to graft them and share them around with other friends that graft, also.

Nice to have you around.

Dax

Here's a pic. The stock is Abies lasciocarpa as well (I tried 10 A. grandis and 20 A. lasciocarpa)

This one still looks dubious to me. The stock is just starting to break bud, but no sign of growth on the scion yet. I figure that I should know soon enough :S

I sure hope it takes- I'm not sure if I'm really up for another grueling adventure like that. If I do, though, I'll make sure to spread the scions around so everyone can have a crack at it.

Random,are you climbing that tall thing on your winter visits?Monkeytreeboy and I are working on some broom retrieval ideas that take a lot of the thrill factor out of icey
high climbs.I know some will consider my plans
cowardly and not playing by the "rules"but let me assure you the trees don't know this and its way easier grafting
while not wearing a full body cast.Doug
Oh yes,that is a nicely shaped broom ,maybe a tall and narrow one.

Hey, nice find - I do hope you have success and I agree with what has been said - share those scions!

I hope you connect with our other local (Portland area) broom hunters here - could be a very exciting 2014 grafting season. :^)

For remote brooms like this, my retrieval tool of choice is a 12 gauge shot gun. Just getting to that tree is an ordeal that is difficult to describe. There would be no way that I'd have the stamina to climb it after climbing *to* it :)

Nice find! Hope you can get a plant going, much easier to collect scions from a tree growing in your back yard! At what elevation is that broom?

It looks unusual to me to see the understock cut like that. Is that something you do for all your grafts?

You should have a full length understock-seedling, however, I've had stuff happen where I've grated on individuals exactly like that.

You have plenty of time. Neither the understock or scion may break this year (and still be fine)... or a combination of either or.
I've waited two seasons sometimes for a graft to to finally break and grow. With as little energy that your understock now has, it just may take a year for something to happen, so caution to the safe side and just keep it alive, if so....

Dax

A few years ago, I started cutting back a small percentage of my rootstocks as they started to push growth, hoping that more would be pushed into the scion. It seemed to work, though I haven't done careful trials to see if it is actually helping. In this case, the only one to survive (or at least keep its needles) was the one that I cut back the shortest.

Dax, I'll make sure to keep all of the stocks around for a year or two, just in case some of the other ones grow.

Thanks, that's interesting information on the understock.

It's (still) the other way around. More = more energy to the scion.

Dax

Yeah, I wasn't recommending that as a technique- it was just something I was messing around with. If I'd known that I'd only get one out of 30 to survive, I would have been much more conservative in my experimentation :P