I kept about 2cm of rootstock and removed tubercles so stock wouldnt offset im happy so far with root developement it will be interesting to see roots in another twelve months.

Aww... those lophs are cuties.

I dunno why, but mexican miniatures are always strangely endearing to me.

Nice work, Cactuscook. The Lophs seem to keep nice form on the Harrisia, the rooted down one looks just about normal !

They are cute i was given some seed as i did not have this one and that was why i grafted it i dont graft these anymore. Thanks to people on this forum in sa and vic i now have heaps of peri to try grafting seedlings onto. I will be sowing astrophytum asterias cvs and ariocarpus seed tomorrow i do have some seedlings but they are five months old now and the epidermis might be to hard or thick but i might give a astro a go.

i am about to head into the shed and try grafting blossfieldia which are less than a mm across and about a month old, its a pitty i dont have a camera at the moment. i will try graft to very small peri stock and cut it right at the top of the growth point, the problem is going to be handling the tiny seedling after three beers. i purposely downed three beers to try stop the shakes ill let you know how i go!!

darren

I would love to be trying the blossf ill have to get some seed of that. I have got everything ready to go but i was thinking should i pot up the peri now or after i graft. I definately have a itch to do some grafting. And i used rubber gloves when working with the peri and it was great no bloody prickles. Hows the nose

Darren i was thinking of cutting all the peri and root the cuts then graft to the rooted cuttings is this a good idea or just graft straight away and how old is the youngest seedling you could graft.

i would cut the peri at the same time i graft to it then just get the cuttings to take root before you graft to them, you should be able to graft to the cuttings in a week.

if you can balance a pin ontop of another pin then you should be able to graft the blossfieldia... ill keep you posted. i think the beers helped

the youngest seedling i have grafted is an astro which i grafted the same day it germinated... it took and seems to be going great. i also grafted arios for the competition at 3 days old and they did great also.

i dont have any large stock ready to go so i grafted a loph to a rebutia pulvinosa which is grafted to pereskiopsis tonight which should be interesting ill keep you posted on that one also

Now that made me laugh Sounds like ill be having some fun then could graft something different everday and its just the start of winter. By the time spring comes around omg just wish there were more hours in the day.

I am so happy to be around here.

Cactuscook, are those lophophoras grafted on harissia caespitosas?

If they are they look great, faster stocks make caespitosa look like poop. as it pups to much.

It is caespitose first offset apeared exactly one month after grafting. also did a graft onto trich scop and it is a different variety just lw and that has maintained good growth also will post a pic tomorrow night. One thing i find with harrisia, myrtillo and trich scop is that you can slow growth of scion down enough to appear as looking close to normal. Well not always but i have some examples of each.

LW grafted onto trichocereus scopulicolis? Just as i am writing this i remembered that i kept the root and it now has two small pups will take a photo of it tomorrow and ill check to see if i have photos of when i first did graft.

Not the best photo but i paid $4 for this sulco rauschii and thought to myself mmm i want i big one so i grafted the top and the bottom since this i have removed approx 40-50 pups and rooted them down. Now i have to look for a recent photo before i removed heaps of the pups. So if you have something rare small or slow growing graft it. Been busy with work and this forum so havent yet sowed seed for my peri grafting but i have made enclosure bit dodgy but should work until i set up 4 shelf unit that i had in mind.

This is the species I want to graft. I've kept two of these over the last 20 years. The first one I bought as a tiny plant when I was about 18 years old. It grew over the next 15 years or so into a plant that filled a 5 inch pot but I never saw a flower on it. Then I gave it to my Grandmother to look after while I went o/s/ and it died while I was away. The one I have now is a tiny plant that nearly didn't make it. On its first night here (outside) something decided it looks tasty and chewed the growing point out of it. It has offset twice now in the last 3 years and now I want to remove one of the 1cm diam. offsets to graft onto something to give it a boost along to a point where I can degraft it and hopefully see it flower for the first time in 22 years. This is why I wanted to track down some pere to graft it onto... thanks to Josh I can now do this soon. I've got a tonne of seed to sow too and am also hoping to set something up in the hothouse to sow... getting down to 1 degree overnight here atm though... might wait a while