Some of my first grafts: wow they grow fast!

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bett
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Some of my first grafts: wow they grow fast!

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So I finally got a hold of some Pereskiopsis the other month and started some grafts. The gymno pups I wanted to graft ended up dying, but I had had them sitting around too long I think. I'd had them for at least 2 months before I brought them home to graft and since they were chlorophylless mutants, I guess they didn't like the wait.
Anyway, I made some other grafts afterwards, and they're all doing great now. I was really surprised how well two of them have done so far! For scale, the Pereskiopsis are approximately a centimeter or so in diameter.


Austrocylindropuntia sublata monstrose grafted onto Pereskiopsis spathulata. The picture was taken about a week after grafting and the graft was made on September 7th. Didn't sterilize anything since I was at my university greenhouse and didn't have anything more than old razors there.
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Here's the other graft I made on the same day as the previous one, with the picture taken about a week after grafting. This one's a Pereskiopsis apical bud grafted onto a slice of the A. sublata monstrose grafted onto the Pereskiopsis rootstock. I wanted to see if the monstrose would get passed onto the Pereskiopsis, as it had for someone else on the forums.
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And here's both grafts on October 7th, 4 weeks after grafting, and 3 weeks after taking the above pictures.
The scion is starting to show that sectioning that is present on mature A. sublata.
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Not showing any monstrose growth yet!
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The A. sublata scion came from this plant, Image but it's starting to look more like a mixture between that and the old one we have at the greenhouse! Image
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Post by Arjen »

though your scions are fast growing species, you're doing a great job!
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Wow! Congrats Bett! Looking Good! Now you need to try something else... some seedlings of Mammillaria or something. Did I send you any seeds?
I read somewhere that the Native people (from where O. subulata is from) harvest those leaves and eat them. You have a lot there, you may want to try them :)
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Post by bett »

Yep, you sent me some seeds. I'll have to try grafting some when I eventually sow them and get some seedlings. I have a bunch more of the Pereskiopsis that I'm growing separately. I have one at home that I grafted a variegated Opuntia monacantha pup to. It hasn't started growing much yet, seems to be a bit slow to take off. Might need more light or something.
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