Make a super-glue graft step by step
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Make a super-glue graft step by step
1. First you need super-glue.
2. Next something to clean your tools with. I use this hand gel.
3. I use a paper knife...
4. Time to make the cut. In this demonstration I make a top cutting for future growing.
5. This is how it looks like after the cutting.
6. The first cut to make a good platform for the graft.
7. Now you have a choice where to make the cut, depending of how wide the scion is.
8. Time to prepare the scion.
9. This time I pulled the "older" seedling from the pot and cut it from the root afterwards.
10. Then cut the stock where it fit the scion.
11. Align the scion so the vascular rings get contact and add some pressure. Add super-glue to the part you can reach without removing the pressure.
12. Wait for a minute or two and rotate the pot. Add glue to the rest of the joint.
13. Wait for some more minutes and the glue have hardened.
Finished!!
2010-10-23
2011-07-27
2. Next something to clean your tools with. I use this hand gel.
3. I use a paper knife...
4. Time to make the cut. In this demonstration I make a top cutting for future growing.
5. This is how it looks like after the cutting.
6. The first cut to make a good platform for the graft.
7. Now you have a choice where to make the cut, depending of how wide the scion is.
8. Time to prepare the scion.
9. This time I pulled the "older" seedling from the pot and cut it from the root afterwards.
10. Then cut the stock where it fit the scion.
11. Align the scion so the vascular rings get contact and add some pressure. Add super-glue to the part you can reach without removing the pressure.
12. Wait for a minute or two and rotate the pot. Add glue to the rest of the joint.
13. Wait for some more minutes and the glue have hardened.
Finished!!
2010-10-23
2011-07-27
Last edited by Christer Johansson on Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:37 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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This time I just threw it away But usually I let it stay in the pot and just cut the top. Then I get multi headed plants laterdaiv wrote:Nice tutorial Christer (I made it a 'sticky' post.)
So what do you do with the bottom of the scion? You should be able to graft that too and get all kinds of pups on it.
/Christer
Yes, it can.
I think the little tubes in a plant are to move stuff around a plant, not necessarily to the top. Even if it was, the pressure the stock can generate would probably overcome any resistance.
I currently have an Echinocereus Viridflorus with a couple of areoles and the roots grafted to Pereskiopsis, no growth yet, but I am coming into winter.
I also have a grafted Echinocereus species areole grafted, which has started to grow, so for some species you can graft areoles as well.
I think the little tubes in a plant are to move stuff around a plant, not necessarily to the top. Even if it was, the pressure the stock can generate would probably overcome any resistance.
I currently have an Echinocereus Viridflorus with a couple of areoles and the roots grafted to Pereskiopsis, no growth yet, but I am coming into winter.
I also have a grafted Echinocereus species areole grafted, which has started to grow, so for some species you can graft areoles as well.
ok, I've grafted two gymno's this way last tuesday, so far so good.
I'm removing the baggy on monday, at least it seems very well attached!
I'm removing the baggy on monday, at least it seems very well attached!
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
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If it's based on methyl cyanoacrylate it should be safe for the plant. See Wikipedia.XP_2600 wrote:But can i use any glue type? , or some could burn the cactus ?
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This graft was made on the top of a big plant and I made that graft and took a cutting in the same time. Made 4 grafts from one tall stock at the same timealkravi wrote:Looks really nice, I see you made the stock shorter?
Actually I was warried a bit that the leftovers of a glue will spoil the view, but I can't even see them. Maybe I will try this glue method soon.
The glue cracks and leave the tissue when it grows, so it will not remain
/Christer