I LOVE the wonky and different looking cacti haha, your wonky Tricho bridgesii/pachanoi graft is AWESOME looking and WOW with the roots growing from the bottom and you have pups growing too, its going to be wonderful to see how the lower part will grow, and thats brilliant you have the top part you have removed to grow on now, thanks so much for sharing the cutting and the update with us Donald, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Northern Spain from Hans and me for a fantastic day XXXX
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 🙂🌵💚
Very interesting. I've got a wonky Parodia to sort out soon, not grafted but it seems to want to grow sideways lol. Thank you for sharing with us. Have a lovely day from Edith & myself 👍🏻🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
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 🙂🌵💚
Funny shape,, gives me a dirty mind! But it's a special shape! Unusual!! Anyway, if I were you....I will use cutter and not blade and I will use tong to hold the cacti. 😂
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. ❤🌵
@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. 🙂💚🌵
@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.
I LOVE the wonky and different looking cacti haha, your wonky Tricho bridgesii/pachanoi graft is AWESOME looking and WOW with the roots growing from the bottom and you have pups growing too, its going to be wonderful to see how the lower part will grow, and thats brilliant you have the top part you have removed to grow on now, thanks so much for sharing the cutting and the update with us Donald, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Northern Spain from Hans and me for a fantastic day XXXX
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 🙂🌵💚
Very interesting. I've got a wonky Parodia to sort out soon, not grafted but it seems to want to grow sideways lol. Thank you for sharing with us. Have a lovely day from Edith & myself 👍🏻🌵☀️🌺🌼🌸🏜
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 🙂🌵💚
Funny shape,, gives me a dirty mind! But it's a special shape! Unusual!!
Anyway, if I were you....I will use cutter and not blade and I will use tong to hold the cacti.
😂
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. ❤🌵
Cor, that's an odd looking one Donald 😁 Be interesting to see what happens 🙂🙂🌵🌵
@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. 🙂💚🌵
Funny shape!
:-)
I hear that roots usually means that the stock has separated and you'd need to degraft it? No personal experience, of course.
@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.