Seedling Graft Log.

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LophoFan
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Seedling Graft Log.

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I just wanted to make a log of some of my new seedling grafts and add pictures of older ones. Here we go.

Ariocarpus fissuratus
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A. kotschoubeyanus
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A. loydii
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A. retusus
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Astrophytum caput-medusae
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A. asterias hanazano supar
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Lophophora diffusa x fricii
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L. fricii
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L. koehresii
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L. alberto-vojtechii loc. Cohuila
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L. alberto-vojtechii loc. Zacatecas
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More to come later today...
LophoFan
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Re: Seedling Graft Log.

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More grafts.

L. alberto-vojtechii loc. Nuevo Leon
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L. decipiens
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Trichocereus terscheckii
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T. pachanoi monstrose x SS02 crest
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T. pachanoi crest x pachanoi monstrose This one is looking pretty monstrose to me.
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I'm having a crappy issue with these grafts as well. Apparently I made the soil way too rich and it's causing all of them to pup like crazy as they get bigger. I have to keep cutting them off which takes away from the ornamental value of the plants. It's frustrating. I am not sure if there is any way to remedy this short of taking them all out of the current soil and repotting them.
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Re: Seedling Graft Log.

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But surely, Mr. Lopho, that is the whole point of grafting! If you want a natural looking plant, a graft onto Pereskiopsis is not really the way to get one. Potting the grafts up in an infertile mix will slow the growth I'm sure, but then you may as well have left them on their own roots.

I graft to get early flowers and seeds. If I also get lots of pups, these are a bonus and are also used a scions. I don't graft all of my seedlings, lots are left to take on their natural form, I graft purely to speed things up and the unnatural shapes are the price to pay.

Have you considered using a stock other than Pereskiopsis? I'm currently experimenting with Opuntia stocks and so far they are not giving the bloated results that Pereskiopsis does. The scion growth, however, is much slower and I'm finding the grafting more challenging. I also regraft some scions onto Harrisia stocks for longer term growing.

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Well, compared to my grafts in other soil mixtures these ones are pupping too much. Like a rediculous amount and it starts literally right when they start growing. I have an ariocarpus trigonus graft that is only .5 cm tall and has 13 pups coming out of it. I don't feel like that is the point of grafting. Having a jumbled mess of pups that you cant even make out what it is. The grafts i've done in other soil mixes do not pup like these do. And even the pereskiopsis by themselves when I cut the tips i get probably 5-10 pups coming out of them. Which is not normal compared to the soil mixes i've used in the past. This soil has a ton of worm castings in it and humic acid. I'm guessing that has someting to do with it. In the past I just used 50/50 coir/potting soil. This time i used even 2 parts soil, 1 part coir and 1/2 part worm castings. I guess i'll just have to learn from my mistakes.

And I graft to speed up vegitation/flowering as well. I also don't graft all of my seedlings. I usually graft 1 or 2 out of 10-100 seedlings from each species. My impatience forces me to use grafting. Lol. I have used opunita for grafting before and the growth rate was slower than the seedlings on their own roots. It suprised me. I am looking into harrisia and hyclocereus right now. I'm still in the process of propagating the stocks though.
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Here's that A. trigonus with the extraordinary amount of pups coming out of it. It's pushing pups out of almost every areole and even inbetween the tubercles and on the side of the body. I'm used to getting pups after they get to a reasonable size with pereskiopsis grafts, not usually this young.
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Astrophytum from a random seed pack. It's looking like a bishops cap kinda, but it has spines. We'll see when it's bigger. This one isn't pupping thankfully.
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Is it me, or does that Ariocarpus trigonus look cristate :-k ?
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LophoFan
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It's not, It just has like 20 pups coming out of it. One main one on the right side, then the original head on the left with like 10 pups coming out of every areole and in between the tubercles and stuff. I wish it was crested!
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