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Thanks for your comment, and happy New Year!. I've actually kept one Pereskiopsis plant on an outside windowsill as an 'ornamental' plant. Beauty is of course in the eye of the beholder but I didn't want to use it 'just' as a root stock. It's actually grown very thick, and survived last winter. I think it has its own beauty, which is quite different from the beauty of my other cacti.

Thanks for the comment Ziggy, I've struggled to keep up with everyone's videos and most of my plants are doing very little, but this one was worth sharing. I've got endless grafts that appeared to take but then do nothing. I've been moving a few of them to my grow tent, and so far it's looking more promising. It's hard to grow cacti in a stone house next to a river, the windows aren't big enough and it's always cold and damp. However, outside south-facing windowsills are great for about 8 months of the year. Lots of lessons for what to do next growing season. Hope you have a great week, from Northern Spain 🙂🌵💚

Thanks so much for your comment Lyn. I've struggled to keep up with everyone's videos the last couple of months but although it's been a quiet time for my plants I've done a fair bit of repotting, and a few of my plants are doing something interesting, including these two. Wishing you a great week from a cold but mostly sunny Northern Spain 🙂🌵💚

Thanks for your comment - I've really struggled with spider mites, but finally found an organic acaricide/insecticide that seems to be keeping them under control. So many of my plants have been badly damaged or even died that I was becoming despondant, but there are a few success stories so I wanted to share this one. Wishing you a great week in Albuquerque from Northern Spain 🙂🌵💚

Thanks so much for your comment, it's been a quiet time for my plants (apart from some repotting) but these ones I was watching fairly carefully. Happy growing, from Northern Spain 🙂🌵💚

@@DFJA01 How long do you think does the Tricho rootstock last? Do you think you can leave the scion on there growing indefinitely?

@@robert_trirop That's a very good question, and as I've only been growing cacti for just over 2 years I really don't know the answer. But I'd expect a Trichocereus plant to live for a long time (many tens of years) if it doesn't succumb to anything, and I don't see any reason why it should be different if it holds a scion. But others with more experience than me may have a better answer to this.

Many thanks for your comment, I'm also unsure about the appearance and generally prefer a more natural look. I may do another video update on my grafts - it's not all good news - but that may have to wait until spring as it's too cold here for grafting now.

@@manuelsza7064 Many thanks for watching and commenting, I've got a lot more grafting planned but it's nearly winter here so it will be next year now.

@@timmillan6701 Thanks for your comment. I struggle keep up with all the name changes. I have another plant that I bought as Hildewintera colademononsis, it's very similar but with white hair. I think they are basically variations of the same plant, both beautiful.

Many thanks for watching and commenting, I've been very pleased with how my Trichos have grown but I'm struggling to get the same healthy growth with other cactus species. I know many of them are meant to be slow growing, but I've had zero growth from some of my babies this year. It's not been helped by persistent spider mite infestations which I've struggled to control. I'm trying to use only organic controls for them but it doesn't seem to be working.

@@DFJA01 Oooh that's too bad! You've been having the mites on your seedlngs? Best of luck with it! Pests can be so troublesome 🫣

@@PlantFun1 They seem to rapidly infest any active growing point on most of my cacti.

Oh, I see what you mean, that's a species I've not come across before. It's always hard to tell with random purchases, and the nurseries here usually don't have much of a clue either. Thanks for watching and commenting. 🙂🌵💚

Thanks Lyn, this has been totally neglected and it was one of your repotting videos a couple of months back that made me realise I needed to do this one. The boot trays are great and inexpensive too, we have one of 'those' shops quite near here. Extremely wet weather here in Northern Spain for the next few days, I hope you and Hans are having a good week with slightly dryer weather 🙂🌵💚

Thanks for your comment Joe - they all seem to have attached successfully and they are now in my grow tent where they should be able to keep growing - although no signs of that yet. We do definitely have a cold enough winter here to bring delicate cacti in, and certainly enough rain to rot the roots of many of them. But it's a land of microclimates - I was surprised to see Notocactus Leninghausii growing well in a friend's garden totally exposed to any rainfall, and my south facing windows provide shelter from rain and enough warmth with the low sun shining for my Trichocereus to have grown noticeably over the last couple of weeks. I actually have more deaths under my grow lights indoors - it's very hard to get the humidity down which I think is a big issue. I hope you have a great week 🙂🌵💚

Thanks for watching Ziggy, I certainly seem to have a great means of propagating them here! Hope you are having a good week 🙂🌵💚

Thanks for commenting. I've got lots of large cacti (mostly Trichocereus) but I'm trying to collect more of the small species now, these are certainly pretty additions!

Many thanks for your comment. I think for my seedlings the brightness is about right, but one trick I've used in the past is to place a piece of paper kitchen towel over seedlings that need less light. That way you can keep all the plants together but selectively dim on a per-pot basis. I've even cut holes in kitchen towel for a lesser dimming! With a diffuse light source this works well.

I've actually been planning to do this for about a year now, but it's taken me this long to find a variegated Gymnocalycium at all as they are not so common here. A friend actually had a fallen pup from one of these which I pointed out wouldn't survive due to lack of chlorophyll, but unfortunately it was in the wrong country for me to do anything about! Many thanks for your comment Lyn, I'll probably do an update on this sooner rather than later as I don't want to have to wait until next year. I'm not patient enough for that 🙂🌵💚

Thanks Lyn, I'll give them the best care I can in the hope that they will flower next year, which might give a better chance of a definite identification. The white spines are particularly striking on this and they are definitely what caught my attention. But ultimately, I bought them because they looked nice, rather than to fill a specific hole in my collection. Although of course if they match any holes I know about then that's a bonus! Wishing you and Hans a great week ahead from Northen Spain. 🙂🌵💚

@ZiggySearchfieldCactus yes I'm hoping for some double-headed monsters from these! Thanks for watching and commenting, have a lovely week. 😀🌵💚

I'm in two minds whether to graft some of the Gymnocalycium pups now or wait until next grow season. I generally use my mis-shapen or damaged plants as stock but due to a poor summer they are all rather etiolated - and I think growth has essentially stopped now. Perhaps I'll just do one or two and leave the rest. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂🌵💚

Thanks Daz, it's still a bit soon to see the difference from the old lights but it's much easier to adjust the height of these which should also help. And that also reminds me to take the taller plants out and put them somewhere with some more "grown up" light! Wishing you and Edith a good evening and week ahead whilst I catch up with the backlog of your videos 🙂🌵💚

Thanks for your comment, I do have just one other Gymnocalycium Mihanovichii which flowered a few months back so I hope to be able to try some pollination next year. I've tried to grown some from seed (also some Friedrichii) but not had any success. I've heard they can be rather fussy to germinate.

I have a brighter (and more expensive) Spider Farmer light in my grow tent which I've been very happy with, it really is so much better than the unreliable light from a window! This Parodia was just a random purchase from somewhere before I really knew much about cacti, but it's been very satisfying to see it flower every year. Thanks for commenting Lyn, wishing you and Hans a lovely weekend from northern Spain. 😀💚🌵

Thanks for your comment - I think it's a matter of opinion whether or not they look good but to me it doesn't really look natural. It's more a means to an end than anything else, a bit like when people graft fruit trees.

Thanks for watching ans commenting Ziggy. There seems to be a view it's probably a Chrysacanthion, but having looked up a Haselbergii, it's obvious that I need to get one of these too. Wishing you a great weekend from northern Spain 😀💚🌵

@@DFJA01 Could be Donald 🙂You too my friend 😊😊🌵🌵

I'm hoping to see a big difference over time. The home made lights don't really give an even light distribution, but these look like they will be much better.

Thanks for your comment. This was an early experiment, based on seeing that others have successfully rooted cacti this way. Whilst I think it is possible to root many cacti this way, I have now established a pattern of rooting cacti in a mixture of grit and perlite (no organics) and that seems to work well for many cacti. I occasionally moisten the medium lightly, but it's really a case of mostly forgetting about them for a couple of months. I've not had a single cactus rot this way, and most have rooted successfully. There are a couple which have done nothing in 2 months; I've just placed the cut back into the medium, moistened it slightly again and will want another 2 months or even into next year if necessary, given we are now at the end of summer here.

@@DFJA01 You are clearly on your way to becoming a cactus-master, with your experimental attitude. ;) One extremely fun thing to do is grow ARIOCARPUS from seed, in sterilized, closed containers. This gets them through 1-2 year of slow seedling growth, with ZERO input from the grower. OR get some Pereskiopsis spathulata, keep it indoors and warm, and watch it grow like the jungle-weed it is. Then graft your ariocarpus seedlings onto it and see them grow extremely quickly.

@@KramRemin Growing Ariocarpus like that would be a challenge, but possibly one I should attempt. I've already gone down the Pereskiopsis Spathulata rabbit hole, it's a very robust plant and has survived both at the back of a darkened room and on a sunny outside windowsill. As for being a cactus master - my aim is to get fertile seeds from a plant that I have myself grown from seed. I've yet to have a flower from any of my own seedlings, but I've only been at it 2 years so it's early days yet :-)

@@DFJA01 (Sorry, bit slow at connecting the dots. You're the same grower who did the excellent video comparing growth rate on pere-grafted & non-grafted seedlings. That's science, that!)

Haha they do look rather like lollipops! :-)

Many thanks for your comment, it just goes to underline that when you buy something on the internet you don't always get quite what you expected, although in this case I'm happy with the plant itself. The branch I am growing now on its own roots is certainly producing a *lot* of side branches. Ziggy's cuttings are now all potted up and the already-rooted A. Subulata is showing some signs of having taken on water. I'm hoping there's enough warmth left for the other cuttings to send out roots quickly so they can get through the winter.

You can never have too many cacti 😂😂😂❤🌵💚

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Thanks for commenting, I'm actually really excited about the Vestita, very happy that Ziggy sent me this one. A couple of years ago I did some timelapse videos of mung bean germination so a dancing cactus would be a great candidate for something similar.

@@DFJA01 That would be great! My most recent video is on this very subject!

@@newbotany Just watched it and subscribed to your channel, thanks for your comment. 🙂

@@DFJA01 Thanks!

Thanks Daz, yes originally your Pterocactus so I need to read up how to care for it :-). The others are now in grit so hopefully should root before the season ends. Wishing you and Edith a great evening.

Many thanks again, I've prepared some grit to root them in but it's a bit damp so will give it a couple of days to dry out before doing so. I just spotted the Pterocactus on your Cactus tour video, it's a beautiful and curious plant. I might have to get handy with a saw and prepare a similar box for it! 🙂🌵💚

@@DFJA01 Excellent stuff 🙂 Mines not flowered yet but I think Cactus Joe's has 🙂🙂🌵🌵

Many thanks - they've mostly continued to grow well although due to a very cloudy late spring, those that were indoors on the windowsill have etiolated somewhat.

Thanks for watching, glad you've seen the update. I'll probably follow this up again at some point next year with its progress.

Many thanks for watching and commenting - I hope yours turned out as you hoped for. I've now done an update video on this - the cuttings have started growing so have clearly rooted, which is very satisfying to see.

Thanks Daz for your comment, when I started out I was tempted to discard anything that "didn't come out right" but I'm very glad I didn't - the wonky ones seem to tell a story about how these plants cope in the wild, and they always do what they want rather than what I want! Wishing you and Edith a great week ahead, from a very rainly Cornwall today 🙂🌵💚

Haha the tongs were outside in the cafe and I was too lazy to go and get them, which was definitely a mistake! And I didn't expect it to be as tough to cut as this, but obviously as they get larger the get a woody core to support them. A couple of lessons learnt for next time. ❤🌵

Thanks Lyn, I was surprised to see the pups and roots so will post an update when they have developed further, bit it might not be until next year now. Wishing you and Hans a great weekend from sunny Devon today 🙂🌵💚

Thanks for your comment Lyn, I aspire to have a collection as beautiful as yours but it may take a few years! 🙂🌵💚

@UrbanHafner I don't think it's separated, but perhaps the scion no longer thinks it's getting enough water and nutrition, hence the new roots. I'm interested to see where the stock and bottom section goes from here - the top part should root easily and I've done that many times now. I had a couple of similar grafts where I buried the stock completely, allowing the scion roots to reach the soil. These have done very well so far, but I've been warned to watch out for rot setting in on the buried Pereskiopsis. Many thanks for commenting!

@@DFJA01 I'll be watching with interested. I just did my first three successful grafts (2x Carnegiea gigantea and 1x Astrophytum myriostigma) and that will all hopefully become relevant to me next year. :)

​@UrbanHafner oh that sounds good, I've not attempted to graft any of my Carnegia Gigantea seedlings. Good luck with them. I've attempted loads of Astrophytum grafts but very few have succeeded so far, except one Myriostigma that is absolutely rocking on the Myrtillocactus stock. 🙂

@@DFJA01 Two out of three Carnegiea on Pereskiposis so far ane one out of two for the Astrophytums (but the second one got knocked over). I'll continue as seedlings and stock permit, but it's easier than expected. And a lot of fun, of course. :)

​@UrbanHafner I have some Carnegia Gigantea seedlings that need repotting soon, I might try grafting a couple of them to Trichocereus or Myrtillocactus. I've also ordered a load of Gymnocalycium seeds, so hope to be able to graft them to Pereskiopsis once they germinate.

@ZiggySearchfieldCactus I was inspired to try this as a result of a video Lyn posted, but perhaps my expectations were a little ambitious. Very glad to see progress on this, my Parodia Magnifica has still done absolutely zilch but I haven't given up on it yet. Thanks for watching 🙂🌵💚

@ZiggySearchfieldCactus It was one of the ones I mostly ignored as it was "ugly", until I gave it a close look today. These plants never cease to surprise me! Thanks for watching, I might post an update on this next year. 🙂💚🌵

I actually fed it (along with most of my cacti) this evening, diluted feed in the hope that they will appreciate it over the next week which will be very hot. Many thanks for commenting, I'm intrigued by this now!

@@DFJA01 Think we've started something 😁😁🌵🌵

He's a Cactus Vanessa 🙂🙂🌵🌵

Austro = Southern (hemisphere). Cylindro = cylindrical form. Opuntia = a genus (now divided into several geni) of cactus that includes prickly pears. I love this species because it doesn't look like other cacti ❤