Mammalaria

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Hanazono
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Re: Mammalaria

Post by Hanazono »

Maybe I should get some of my mammillaria tubercles/pups grafted to pereskiopsis!
Since mammillaria has many tubercles, you can increase numbers as you like.
Pereskiopsis stock many not work for some species, which many not form any off-sets.

The attached photo is for your reference.
It is a grafted M. luethyi tubercle with off-sets. Off-sets were removed and rooted later.
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DaveW
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Re: Mammalaria

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This video has been put on in the past showing you can even graft tubercles on Opuntia pads. Note that as with grafting on round stock the tubercles must overlap the vascular bundles (or rings) and not just be put in the centre of the stock because with tubercles the vascular ring is small (necessitating the staggered arrangement in the video). Obviously on flat padded Opuntia's the vascular ring is oval and not circular as in usual cactus stems, hence the unusual long arrangement of tubercles on the stock. Unless that is a glochidless Opuntia I would not advise picking up the pads bare handed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA3ZIjHGKZ0

Grafting and the importance of overlapping vascular bundles for a successful graft is detailed here. Pictures in the link will enlarge if you click on them.

http://kadasgardens.com/grafting2.html
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