Opuntia leptocaulis as a stock

[Mainzer]

Dears..
As one who is addicted to grafting.. I tried Opuntia leptocaulis as a stock for Gymno. babies and young seedlings..
I will keep you updated with pictures soon..
For the ones who do not know O. leptocaulis... here is an example
link: http://www.gardentia.net/cactaceae/Opun ... caulis.jpg)

all the best

[psi]

Interesting, I haven't grown this species but it looks like something that would work well with seedlings, I'd be interested to see how it goes.

[promethean_spark]

I have a couple plants of it and have intended to use them as rootstocks, but they don't seem as juicy as pereskiopsis - they do better in my GH over the winter though. Perhaps if I grew it in lowish light in my propagator it'd etoliate and get juicy. Your plant doesn't look much like mine.

[Mainzer]

Dears..
Four days now and my little grafted babies look fine "sp far" .
I decided to put them in potting mix for the stocks to root..
I am not quite sure how my grafted stuff would work with super-glue-mthod..
In fact I the fist time I tried this method it failed because the glue reached the union point and it was blocked .. I discovered that few days later when the scion started to soften "sign of no union"
I think the super-glue method would be better to apply for larger scions and stock diameters..


best wishes