Grafting Maihuenia and maihueniopsis

[jaredhiggs1]

Does anyone know anything about grafting these genus? I haven't really found anything online. Impart your knowledge unto me oh ye kings of cacti!

[Robb]

I haven't had any experience with the species in question. What I gather is that Austrocylindropuntia subulata makes a great rootstock for that kind of thing. Graft the segments how you would any cactus I guess. Good luck, be sure to show us your results!

[jaredhiggs1]

Will do! Thanks Robb!

[CactusFanDan]

Well Maihuenia aren't related closely to any other cactus, so you could try grafting it to anything really and the success rate is likely to be the same. For Maihueniopsis if you really wanted to graft them then you could use something like Opuntia fragilis or O. humifusa. I don't see why you'd graft any of them though, as they're all really easy on their own roots, just be sure to abuse them.

[C And D]

I use Austrocylindropuntia subulata for grafting Maihueniopsis and Tephrocactus, it works great!

I only do it so I can produce more plants for sale, and still we can never keep up with demand.
I cut so many heads off one M. bonniae "minor" that it took 3 years before it produced it's next head.
Luckily this year, I grafted more heads of every clone, so maybe next year we will have some for sale.


Maihueniopsis bonniae "Major" clones 1 and 2

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Maihueniopsis clavaroides

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Tephrocactus geometricus
Started out as one head, now I have 3!
and many more to come..

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Cumulopuntia rossiana

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[jaredhiggs1]

Wow! Those pictures are awesome! Thank you for your reply. I will try that then as I just so happen to have one.