I am not sure I understand your question.
Are you saying that after adding the scion wood to the rootstock, that the rootstock continues growing branches?
If that is the case, yes, I have that for at least a year and have to snip out the branches as they grow.
My grafting technique is different from some, I do side grafts as low as I can, and leave the "parent" after topping it. I do not cut the parent out until around august. This is typically when the bands begin to disintgrate by themselves.
I am not sure I answered your question?
Steven

Grafts not re-establishing apical dominance well or at all? Happens all the time with conifers, but it is true that Araucaria are the worst at it, side branches never gaining tree form. Sorry, don't know the particular reference, though.

Resin

Pinetree,

When grafting lower side branches it can take many years to develop a leader. I don't have any experience grafting Araucaria. There is a chemical in the cell that is produced "reprograming" the buds to start growing vertically rather then horizontally. Age of the original tree and species makes a considerable difference as to when they will grow "normal" again.

I will try to hunt down the name of the chemical the plant produces. The trip down memory lane isn't working.

Darren

Abies procera 'Glauca prostrata' is another example of a branch stays a branch. Although these can and do eventually form leaders.

I guess, like many things, standing upright is a hormonal thing. Auxins and cytokinins and such. "Apical control" was the only term my limited mature memory can muster for the opposite of apical dominance.

tj

Look up "orthotropy" vs. "plagiotropy" in conifers. The reference should be somewhere...

This occurs with cuttings too and with Agathis, but apparently not Wollemia. It is easy to overcome this by simply harvesting the leader for propagation. The Araucariaceae rapidly replace the leader with one or more often, multiple replacements...

Thanks Salicaceae, "plagiotropy" is the word I was trying unsuccessfully to pound out of my head.

There are similar problems with cuttings from old trees. for example, I made cuttings of a blue narrow cultivar of sequoia sempervirens, a lateral branch.
Well, I got several rooted cuttings. Only one made a leader. The others are prostrate. One of them is 5 or 6 years old. Looks like a ground carpet. I think we name this result 'Cultivariant'