Spiniflores
Number of posts: 27
Location: Chile
Registration date: 2008-07-08
 | | Subject: Re: questions about grafting to pereskiopsis. Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:20 am | |
| | trigonus wrote: | Hi Juan, great Peres graft pics. How old would you say that seedling that you have grafted to the Pereskiopsis would be? Alot of people in Australia suggest that grafting seedlings to Peres should be done very early on in the seedlings life.
I have always wondered if grafting older seedlings to Peres would work, I can see from your pics that apparently it does work.
I have had many failures with Peres gafting (no sucess @ all), I always put it down to using seedlings that were not very young, as I mentioned that very young seedlings are usually used here in Aus.
I guess my technique is all wrong?
Not sure what this "alusa-plast" is? Looks like what we call "cling wrap" and the Americans call "Sarin" wrap. Sounds like it might have Aluminium in it though?
Cheers. |
hello
now I think that I have more experience with the pereskiopsis, I'm grafting almost everyday, this is adictive, jhajjajaj 
You must use younger branches/clones. they will have softer vascular system  If you have older clones, the "tubes" will be "hard" and that does not help to stock.
to the right the perfect clon (for me), to the left an older clon that sometimes works for bigger seedlings or little head cutted from other plants (i will show you that latter), but now, a perfect clon for graft a seedling is a 15 cm clon, you cut at 10 cm, a clean cut, without feel that you are cutting some "hard" branch, it must be a soft and clean cut.
this is not a perfect cut, because its over the areole and it is better to do it few mm away (so you avoid fungus in the wool and the problem with the next branches that will grow from that areole).
But the photo is usefull to show you the vascular system (xilema and floema in spanish)
step by step
and now... JA55 Eriosyce aspillagae (NOT from Tanume  )
Another example:
JA50 Eriosyce (Thelocephala) napina ssp. tenebrica
REMEMBER TO "TRASLAPAR" (CROSS) THE INTERNAL RINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and now...
It does not matter the size of the seedling
but when they are very small they dont have a ring, they just have a "point", so you must fit that point into
the ring of pereskiopsis... its just matter of practice and focus on the rings, with good glasses! jaja
JA175 Copiapoa rupestris, from Quebrada San Ramon
and nOw
greetings from CHILE!!
Juan Acosta
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KanJe
watchman
Number of posts: 393
Location: Melbourne
Registration date: 2008-06-24
| | Subject: Re: questions about grafting to pereskiopsis. Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:10 am | |
| That's an awesome post Juan.
I find this very useful.
Thanks for sharing you skills and knowledge. |
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Lanna
Number of posts: 28
Location: Australia
Registration date: 2008-06-23
| | Subject: Re: questions about grafting to pereskiopsis. Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:02 pm | |
| I find I have great success grafting larger/older seedlings (about 6 months old) to peres.
I also harden them off slightly before grafting, which seems to reduce the need for a high humidity environment while healing.
Nice pics. |
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Spiniflores
Number of posts: 27
Location: Chile
Registration date: 2008-07-08
| | Subject: Re: questions about grafting to pereskiopsis. Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:28 am | |
| hello friends I-m visiting again this post. I will post pic of the plastic band that I keep using to push and fit the little plant on the peresk. Ariocarpus  later  and look, in this link there are photos of another technique for bigger plants, not only for seedlings. http://eriosyce.mforos.com/1114703/8961294-injerto-en-pereskiopsis-nueva-tecnica-usada-por-alex-py/ Alexander Arzbergerīs pics     |
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shortly
Number of posts: 126
Location: SEQ
Registration date: 2008-06-28
| | Subject: Re: questions about grafting to pereskiopsis. Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:02 pm | |
| Wow that last technique is so cool. I just havta try that one.
I'm off to put in a heap of pereskiopsis cuttings |
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Darren
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 323
Location: adelaide but moving to monbulk
Registration date: 2009-09-07
| | Subject: Re: questions about grafting to pereskiopsis. Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:00 pm | |
| yep im with you... i have gotta give this one a go!!! |
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mutant
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Number of posts: 278
Location: Greece
Registration date: 2010-01-10
| | Subject: Re: questions about grafting to pereskiopsis. Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:56 am | |
| Spiniflores, really nice and helpful of you.
I didn't know pere's were rumored to work better with newborn seedlings....
I have never done a graft with such small seelings except recently |
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