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