What time for grafting?

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taskan
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What time for grafting?

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I have some cactus, sow seed, 3 months
1. A. Asterias
2. Melocactus red and white cap
3. G. mihanovitchi

Could i ask what time for grafting on Pereskiopsis?
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My only question is: why would you graft?
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After 3 months, the sprouting seems not grow anymore. I am not a patient personwo wait 2 years
Second, I read that G. mihanovitchi is lack of chlorophy, it will grow very slowly.
I also want to play with pollination, create new one.
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taskan wrote:After 3 months, the sprouting seems not grow anymore. I am not a patient personwo wait 2 years
If you are unpatient, maybe you are better off with a different hobby instead of slow growing plants like succulents. Growing small plants to large ones or even to get them to flower eventually, is a matter of many years for most and possibly decades for some species.
taskan wrote:Second, I read that G. mihanovitchi is lack of chlorophy, it will grow very slowly.
Not the entire species. Only some individual plants that lack chlorophyl have been grown on stocks in great quantity to sell them as bright coloured plants in garden centers. The 'real' Gymnocalycium mihanovitchi is just a normal plant.

The species you mention are not hard to grow on their own roots. The plants stay more compact and will be more rewarding to grow. Grafting is useful to obtain plants with more heads and (therefore) more flowers and faster flowering (in years). So a good reason if you are after seed distribution. Not a good reason if you are a grower (after all grafting is a bit like cheating).
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I think we have different in view of growing cactus. I agree that grafting is cheat, because it cuts down lot of time. From yearS to monthS.
Others like watching they grow day by day. I like making their children. Pollinating, getting seeds, sowing them *skipping the time* and pollinating the next generation. Then repeat.
Do you think that is unnatural?
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Pereskiopsis stocks allow various ages of seedlings but the best timing of A. asterias seedlings for the grafting is around 40 days after the germination.
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Hanazono wrote:Pereskiopsis stocks allow various ages of seedlings but the best timing of A. asterias seedlings for the grafting is around 40 days after the germination.
Thank you very much, Hanazono!

Do you have any experience for other cactus, like Gym. or Mam.?
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I have experience of the seedling grafting for both Gim and Mam with other stocks.
Seedlings of each species have different body sizes.
More than 2 mm in diameter should be the good time to graft for these genera.
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Hanazono wrote:I have experience of the seedling grafting for both Gim and Mam with other stocks.
Seedlings of each species have different body sizes.
More than 2 mm in diameter should be the good time to graft for these genera.
Again, thank you Hanazono :)
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