Darklight Posted October 2, 2006 I did some grafting of M. craigii onto Pereskiopsis stock in December last year, thought I'd posted the pics and topics but can't find them here. The grafts were done with the usual sterile scalpel blade and some 3M tape. Scions were smaller than I was used to working with but seemed to take OK. The pics below are of separate two individuals grafted on the same day I don't work with cactii much, and thought that this was a bit of a failure until I took today's pics and compared them side by side. This is growth mostly over winter, and only represents nine months since the last pics were taken This is a wider shot of one of them And then I compared them against a specimen which hadn't been grafted. There is so little difference in growth over nine months here I thought I'd taken the pics all today until I checked. OKOK it's not a huge success, and I reckon someone here could do a better job with different stock genes- any suggestions are welcome! But when compared to the grafted plants, watching growth on the control plants has been like doing my tax, or watching paint dry... am pretty happy with it now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M S Smith Posted October 2, 2006 The white spines and enlongated growth on the non-grafted plants are from too little light. Great work though! I've never put time into learning to graft of Pereskiopsis as well as some. ~Michael~ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darklight Posted October 2, 2006 The white spines and enlongated growth on the non-grafted plants are from too little light. Yep agree about the etiolation on the non-grafted plants, but the white spines I'm not sure of. I have a few in various places and none have developed red spines consistently yet. Early days as they haven't been outside a full summer, butI spose I'll have to wait til they flower to confirm ID anyhow. Geez they are slow growers though! These were regenerated from callus in tissue culture. We got many more regerants than that, but most seemed to explode after a few months ex-vitro and it looked like the majority were just callus tissue shaped like cactus with a normal layer of skin and spines over them. Weird. Pics of the parent material are in the Propagation section of the gallery Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
