Grafting Cacti

[Smilodonichthys]

That's more than I've done.

Makes sense that offsetting it would make it more likely to get a good connection.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

How did your grafts go? I finally got two established. I'm sad to say that the other 4 smaller scions died. I think the ones that died were not "juicy" enough. One of the successful ones had to be regrafted. Now both are growing very well. I hope to harvest some tubercles and graft them. It would be nice to get a lot of nice sized ones to distribute.

 

[Smilodonichthys]

You were right to be dubious of my technique. The graft completely failed to the point of the Escobaria falling off and growing new roots from the healed cut. I repotted it and it's doing fine and at least now I know for sure what not to do. Thats great to hear you had some success! I'm waiting on some nice robust new growth on my host plants to try again.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

At least you rescued yours! I've had a lot of scions die

 

[MJP]

My second graft. I was really scared of doing this one. Ariocarpus Fissuratus scion on a myrtillocactus geometrizans rootstock. It has been a bit more than a month now since it was grafted.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

My second graft. I was really scared of doing this one. Ariocarpus Fissuratus scion on a myrtillocactus geometrizans rootstock. It has been a bit more than a month now since it was grafted.

Very nice. I only got one Ariocarpus to take and it seems to have petered out

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

Here's my two guys that made it. Growing really well.
Escobaria vivipara

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

This guy fell off the host but rooted really well. I had to give it a haircut so the base of the plant would contact the soil.
Mammillaria petersonii (I think).

 

[Smilodonichthys]

I gave up on grafting the Escobaria vivipara and am just going to try and be patient. Too much other stuff on the go. I potted them up to give them lots of room. Largest is around the size of a loonie. Here's the pot where I put all the biggest ones:

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

I'm working up the nerve to remove a tubercle from the bottom of one of my plants and try grafting it.

 

[Smilodonichthys]

I just got a couple new interesting cacti from a friend. Escobaria sneedii var. leei which clumps and Opuntia fragilis 'Tiny Michigan' which is a dwarf Opuntia. I'll share some with you when I get some spare pads Lloyd if you don't already grow them.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

See the little thing sticking out the top of the green stick? That's a Mammillaria prolifera scion. And that's not the smallest! I have another, Copiapoa that I can hardly see with my loupe and is maybe alive?