My first successful graft.

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My first successful graft.

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This is my first successful graft I used opuntia ficus-indica as the stock with a lophophora williamsii scion. I did also try grafting the root. It did stick but did not last the dry period before the opuntia pad set roots. I watered yesterday now it has started growing new roots. I did try another at the same time with the other half of the opuntia pad but it did not stick and dried out.
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Good job, Ade. I find Opuntia ficus-indica to be unrealiable as grafting stock, at least when grafting to unrooted pads (have been meaning to try rooted pads but I'm too lazy these days).
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I started removing pads from the opuntia earlier in the year so this one was rooted but I cut in half to get two out of one. The rooted half did not take annoyingly but the top half did. It dried out quite a bit before setting roots and I was worried the wrinkling of the scion would separate but it held. Hopefully this one will grow quickly I want lots if flowers and seeds.
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it does help to have the scion be the same width as the width of the opuntia pad. I place my fresh grafts in a clear container for about 24 hrs. (this helps with the shrinking of the scion and opuntia pad.
I use Opuntia ellisiana, a spinless form of Opuntia cacanapa. This grows native here in TX and I can get many pads every year from landscape plants...
normally I root the pads for about 3 weeks.

good luck with grafting.
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The ficus indica pads seem to be working ok. I nearly killed my astrophytum caput-medusa the tuber turned to mush but the tubercles where ok so I have also grafted several of those and they seem to have taken. I put them in the bathroom this time so they get more humidity than in the bedroom so hopefully they will stick and grow.
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Prepare to wait a loooooong time for those tubercle grafts to move. I have grafted a few back in March, all took and nothing have happened so far (well, one of them - a split tubercle graft - has been swelling slowly, but nothing has pushed through so far).
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I'll be glad if I can just not loose them completely I got plenty of time to wait for extra growth.
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