As you may recall, I decided to top work my Angie, converting to Maha Chanok. The grafts I made in the fall sat all winter without growing. In the end, I had only one survive, but that's all I need:) It is very vigourous and is on its third growth flush. Here's the union
I funneled all growth through the graft by pinching out all growing tips elsewhere. Once it was growing well, I chopped the tree back, leaving 2 weak branches as nurse branches. I started letting water shoots grow. Each time I tip the graft growth to shape its structure, I'll use the pruned tip to graft to a watershoot until I can get 2 more to take. Did the first one yesterday:
Here's the tree overall. The topmost tip is the growth is the graft that took.