# Prostrata juniper graft it or not?

**URL:** <https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/prostrata-juniper-graft-it-or-not/10689>\
**Category:** Design\
**Created:** [June 9, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/prostrata-juniper-graft-it-or-not/10689 "2023-06-09T12:42:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![abhishekD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@abhishekD](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/abhishekD)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/prostrata-juniper-graft-it-or-not/10689/1 "2023-06-09T12:42:59Z")

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Hi friends ,

I have had this prostrata juniper and love the trunk movement . It’s grown from cutting .

Being a prostrata , it’s prone to revert to juvenile growth easily after any pruning . I never cut off juvenile foliage and it does change overtime into matured foliage . Also the foliage is long and has been difficult to compact it to my liking .

So I thought of grafting it itoigawa as it’s much smaller , compact , doesn’t revert back to juvenile like prostrata . But like Ryan I feel like not all junipers need to be kishu or itoigawa .

So thoughts if I can continue on the journey with prostrata foliage or just bite the bullet and get it grafted ?

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/3X/4/b/4b425055387419c22e3d08bacda99e0028d7cb1e.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![raydomz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.bonsaimirai.com/raydomz/32/12102_2.png) [@raydomz](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/raydomz)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/prostrata-juniper-graft-it-or-not/10689/2 "2023-06-20T23:09:31Z")

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Beautiful trunk line - if you’re unhappy with how the foliage responds, you’re only prolonging the inevitable. To me, this is the perfect grafting candidate.

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**Author:** ![Kenez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@Kenez](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/Kenez)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 9:47am UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/prostrata-juniper-graft-it-or-not/10689/3 "2023-06-21T09:47:57Z")

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I agree, I have a juniper that I’ve been trying to get the foliage compacted for more then 10 years.  
Every time I touched it it, no matter to what degree, it reverted back to long droopy juvenile foliage. Eventually I decided to graft itoigawa on it, I’m sorry I didn’t do it years ago.