Grafted dwarf conifers on the market often grow out of character (too big and fast) presumably due to seedling root-stocks of normal vigor having been used. I've never seen any grafted plant where it occurred to me the scion was quite apparently dwarfing the stock. Of course, when the reverse situation has developed and part of the stock shows above the ground you can see an obvious stem size differential.

Here you go. Here's pecan grafted on our native shagbark hickory. I'm only stating that pecan grows faster than shagbark hickory. I was standing right there looking at that tree, also. Dax

The Seattle arboretum has an Asian magnolia that looks even worse.

Wow..... That's certainly something that I have never seen before. Surprising that the trunk doesn't snap in half.

That's why you shouldn't graft Pyrus to Buxus . . . - :-)

I still find it impossible that you grafted ornamental pear to boxwood.

Dax

Yeah..... it died. Forgot to water it, probably would have failed anyway.

Right on, Logan!

Cheers,

Dax

Hey I've seen some weird things happen. Pines that grafted to spruce . . . . . pushed bud. My buddy sent photos . . . however, he passed away before I got to see anything more.

Dax

I am still thinking of doing "dual color" flowering dogwoods. (grafting 'rubra' onto the species, and leaving some of the scions branches intact). I attempted it in august, but the graft didn't take. I will try again this spring and see how it goes.

Anytime people let typical white dogwood stocks push branches up through pink dogwood scions this is happening anyway.