Aztekium grafting

Joined : 16 Apr 2008 Posts : 20 Location : A-Town

I managed to germinate about 7 Aztekium seeds. They are bloody small seedlings at the moment
but im hoping to keep em alive long enough to graft to pere stocks.

Has anyone heard of such grafts being done before? theoretically they should take yeah?

Has anyone grown aztekium to a decent size from seed? what type of conditions do they like?

Joined : 05 Apr 2008 Posts : 162 Location : International

Yes they do work on Pereskiopsis....but they are really fuggin slow!!!! use the humidity tent for a year or maybe 2..... you can graft once they are big enough, which may be many months.....

5 years from seed.....2cm
5 years grafted......4-5 cm
give or take.

Welcome to teh slowest damn cactus around! or close to anyway lol

Subject: Re: Aztekium grafting Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:04 am

Far out... five years from seed, 2cm. Now all I need is to get the little buggers to germinate for me in the first place... Rolling Eyes

Joined : 05 Apr 2008 Posts : 162 Location : International

give or take, it can vary a LOT...like maybe 4 or 5 mm! Suspect

but it really depends on your conditions. you can often buy ones here that are about 6-7cm that are 10 years..not cheap!

Joined : 16 Apr 2008 Posts : 20 Location : A-Town

Kada - cheers for info, was just the info i was after. Bloody hell thats some slow growth though. time is on my side i guess. if i have luck hopefully i can give them to my children one day.

Lachy - my seeds were from http://www.cactus-seeds.com/

i put them in tuppaware with a mix of sand and cacti mix. these were kept in warm conditions with fluro light. will take a picture later