I have only done seedling grafting with Hylocereus,myrtillocactus and harrisia my success rates are ok but could be better. With every failure i feel like you learn something. Never tried grafting onto peri but thinking of giving it a go when i get some. I have heat mats and can set up a small artificial environment is it possible under fluros in side my house through winter. Anyway i feel inspired at the moment so i will try this soon and take some pics to show progress. Just a thought about peri steroid look could you grow the stock hard with little water and a sandy mix would it change anything now i have never grown peri so dont know requirements but i love to expirement and maybe once graft has taken you can treat it mean. Be interesting to hear everyones thoughts.

Harrisia in flower.

i have had my pere stocks soaking in water dosed with nitrosol in the laundry. my grafts have been pumping and pupping like crazy. the only down fall is i have to trim my grafting stocks regularly as it can get a little out of hand and take over. i originally used my home brew heating pad for heat but i managed to get enough heat out of the fluro's alone and having no problems at all even germinating seed has been no problem.

regards
Darren

Cool ill be setting up a little experiment now dont know how the wife will take to having it inside the house but ill work on that. Will probably set it up over the weekend an then post some pics next week. Got lots of nice seedlings but no peri ill work on that too if not got lots of other grafting stock. Will also next spring to a proper experiment using 5 different grafting stocks all the same size with all the same scions.

Perry is perhaps the easiest cactus to grow. Despite my best efforts... it's pretty much indestructable.

Quick question about Pereskiopsis... how cold tolerant is it? I was steering away from Hylocereus as I've read it is not very cold hardy.

I've grown it outside in Melbourne winters, fully exposed to the elements, with no ill effects aside from wind damage. It seems to be highly resistant to rotting, and generally survives pretty much anything you care to throw at it.

I think you need to keep the water up to it in winter more than normal Cacti otherwise it'll drop its' leaves...
Haven't tried it outside myself, but I agree with Lachy, it seems to be pretty forgiving and a single plant can be turned into a farm pretty quickly....

It was 2 degrees outside this morning at 8am (one degree in the car ) and there was ice on my windscreen. I think once winter sets in it's going to be bloody freezing this year down here. I don't have any plans to grow it outdoors but there is a chance it could still freeze down to -4, -5. It will be in a small greenhouse. Maybe I should just bring all my cactus inside over winter and not worry about it.

I would think that as long as it doesn't suffer a frost directly, perry *should* be okay. I suspect it would lose its leaves if subjected to near-freezing temperatures, but I would be surprised if it resulted in the loss of the plant. A greenhouse is probably a good idea.

Well it took me a while to get around it but here's my Jaba the agavoides or Jabavoides for short. Shows what perry can do.

Wow many growing points lots of flowers would be nice when flowering it is very interesting how different stocks effect scions differently. Does this stock help produce lots of flowers.

WOW!!!!





astro & gymno on selinicereus



lopho on perry

hello I am new here. I was just wondering what size does a selinicereus
or opuntia cutting have to be to use as grafting stock?

Just wanted to reply to cactuscook's post above. The Jabbavoides produced almost no flowers this season past, maybe cause the stock is getting tired as the years before flowering was good.