Using Opuntia and Pereskiopsis as stock

Sankhara · Post by **Sankhara** » Mon May 05, 2008 6:40 pm

Hi friends,

Now that i've used all my trichocereus as a stock, i piked up some opuntias(2) and pereskiopsis(2) to graft some mammillaria and notocactus seedlings.

The procedures all you know, this pictures were taken 6 days after the graft and they are in a humity chamber.

Please pray for their survival.

Post by **daiv** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:14 pm

Neat idea on the Opuntia - taking advantage of the wide pads to start more than one.

Sankhara · Post by **Sankhara** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:38 pm

Hi Daiv,

Yes =) with Opuntia you can graft some more seedlings to see wich one will suceed.

This is the second time i use this kind of stock. But this time i choose to put the plants in a humity chamber instead in the shade inside house.

It seem's it will work

just like Loph and Tony graftings, i hope.

Lewis_cacti · Post by **Lewis_cacti** » Tue May 06, 2008 5:20 am

Thats a really cool idea with the opuntia. what would be even cooler is if all three scions take! what species is that? if its O.ficus-indica i may have to hack a pad off one down the road and give it a shot, in spring probably.

Sankhara · Post by **Sankhara** » Tue May 06, 2008 8:27 am

Hi Lewis,

I don´t know wich Opuntia is. I caught them also in the side of the road one year ago.

Be shure to graft only when you get the vegetative active growing.

Good luck. My rate of sucess last year was two in ten grafts. But this year i'm using a mini humity chamber.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue May 06, 2008 1:00 pm

Cool, I have my Opuntias (O. compressa)rooting as we speak. I will try this method as well in a few weeks if all goes well with the stocks.
Keep us posted on the results.