Hello everyone,
Here are some of the grafts im working on. I will try and show the whole process and share some pros/cons of each grafting stock.
This is the first graft. Its a Copiapoa lauii monstrose grafted on pereskiopsis stock. I got this plant from C&D plants in late summer. It arrived healthy but started to shrivel, I assume from rot, so I did an emergency graft. It is looking good so far and is actually putting on some weird growth even though I havent watered it since late October and is inside the house with low light.
Lui's Grafting Adventure
Lui's Grafting Adventure
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'The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.'
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
nice graft!
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
thanks! I just started grafting this year. trying different stocks and techniquessnarfie wrote:nice graft!
Here is some progression of a few more.
Gymno baldainum about 1 month or so of growth.
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- copiapoa hypogaea
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- mother plant
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you can also see the copiapoa lauii monstrose and a few other grafts and perekiopsis stock looking ratty in winter
'The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.'
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
Nice! I've started this autumn with grafting, so far probably two that had taken, pereskiopsis that i grafted on o. Subulata monstruosa is growing, mammillaria that i grafted is still bonding, not yet pumped up, grafted on o. Subulata
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
An update of some rescue grafts from this summer, older grafts of seeds started in 2014, and more recent attempts.
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- recent graft, not too sure about the amount of variegation. This was a pup from large more colorful scion
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- first successful graft on opuntia stock.
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- here is the plant I took the cuttings from (in bloom) not sure of the species
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- not a very good connection here, but fingers crossed
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- nice color on this. waiting for it to pup
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- had this guy in almost 100% limestone and red lava..still rotted. maybe too much watering frequency (one a wk)
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- rescue this of some scion I bought on ebay from china. tried to root them with a little hylocereus stock still on.
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- they rotted but this guy seems to have taken
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- excited about the color on this one
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- trying a new grafting stock/ inspired by the couple on youtube
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- here are the seedlings i tried on the schlumbergras stock
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- ok odds here. i keep knocking off the scions on the edges when moving them around
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- degrafted this Spring. Surprised by the new growth. you can see how much smaller the ungrafted seedlings are (sown same time ^)
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- only two seedlings left....out of 10 seeds/ 2 grafted / 1 myriostigma must have made its way in there
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- cant seem to keep the leaves on my pereski through the winter
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- grafted in 2015...starting to show new growth even though the periski have lost all their leaves
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- only ever tried rooted degrafted scion this large once.
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- only thing that works for me is early summer...100% perlite
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- some recent grafts in their humid box
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- you can see the A. asterias size compared to the one grafted on pereski last year
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'The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.'
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
grafted on 19-06-2016, photo from 16-07-2016:
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
nice graft snarfie,
I think the pads I chose from my christmas cactus were too small. I tried to get fairly new pads, with a smaller pad forming on it.
Did you root your pads in a soil medium? The video said to place them in trays (humid box). I placed them in 100% perlite...a few rotted.
I think the pads I chose from my christmas cactus were too small. I tried to get fairly new pads, with a smaller pad forming on it.
Did you root your pads in a soil medium? The video said to place them in trays (humid box). I placed them in 100% perlite...a few rotted.
'The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.'
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
Lol i also placed them in pure perlite, 100% rooted 
Also >90% of grafts were succesfull
However i first sterilized the schlumbergera segment, the scion and the razorblade.
Also >90% of grafts were succesfull
However i first sterilized the schlumbergera segment, the scion and the razorblade.
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
updated graft on pereskiopsis. sulcorebutia has burst into growth. astro variegated has colored up nicely and is starting to make offests 
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- graft from july 10th
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- sept 7th showing some growth- one of the sulcorebutia scions failed :(
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'The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.'
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
They're looking very healthy, how are your other grafts doing?
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
Thanks snarfie.
Here are some updates. I was at a local nursery and came across a bunch of degrafted mammillarias, asked the owner what he was doing with the mytrillocactus stocks and he said I could have them for a 1$ each. So I bought the whole lot, they aren't pretty but they work.
Perfect timing when I got a package in the mail with a bunch of new scions. 
Here are some updates. I was at a local nursery and came across a bunch of degrafted mammillarias, asked the owner what he was doing with the mytrillocactus stocks and he said I could have them for a 1$ each. So I bought the whole lot, they aren't pretty but they work.
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- new grafts
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- suclorebutia I chopped to make the big little graft
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- aftermath-trying to root the mytrillo stocks- plus some of the scions were already producing roots! I've heard A. asteria are harder to root but I will give it a try...forcing myself not to water them :D
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'The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.'
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Re: Lui's Grafting Adventure
Looking good, and very lucky you could get the myrtillo's.
Young professional amateur in Schlumbergera and Rhipsalidopsis growing and hybridizing