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brilliant!!!!!

any other catophiles in the power cord nationals!!!

:)

Edited by jasemateau

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I have my fingers crossed on this one! The possibilities could be freaking amazing if this system delivers! Waiting and chewing my nails!

Cheers

Charliewired

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sweet find mark, it'll be interesting to track his progress on his octopus cactus :)

I can tell getting a clean vascular fusion will be the tricky bit in this technique.. I dont think I managed it with my first attempt, pups are still forming and the terschekii hasnt got fatter :( My hope was to tap into the vascular tissues leading to areoles and have them grow into larger veins via the added peres input, it'd be a shame if it has to be highly invasive and need to go in deep.

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... it'd be a shame if it has to be highly invasive and need to go in deep.

cactus porn will just get more penetration shots is all. - stole that from the shroomery thread :P

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hey Auxin how did you get the loph stem to mould to the Trich aeriole and lineup at a parellel angle together when the pereskiopsis is on a tilted angle? did you use tape or something also?

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I pre-trained the peres to have a curve that would let it snap into place into the notch made from excising the torch areole then I used the string in the pic to provide enough tension to keep it butted up snug and at the right angle. After making the graft I kept the whole contraption under a cellophane dome on a steel frame for humidity for a while. My mistake was not going deep enough I think. While they did graft together the vascular connection never grew in strong enough to pump the peres power juice up into the pedro and terscheckii :( Day before last I degrafted it to use with an Escobaria seedling (I just cant seem to clone peres fast enough, so many different seed :lol: ).

Heres how it looked before degrafting, the terscheckii is now 2.3 cm x 4 cm:

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butted up snug

Best quote ever.

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Bloody genious call it the" Auxin Technique" :wink:

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i can't see much benefit except maybe to grow a loph real big real fast, but answer me this: would the benefit keep increasing, the more cords you plug in? because peres are so skinny, it wouldn't be too difficult to attach 3 i wouldn't think. i mean, it would be difficult, but they'd all fit easily enough.

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Bloody genious call it the" Auxin Technique" :wink:

 

:lol: I think that might be slightly confusing tho.

would the benefit keep increasing, the more cords you plug in?
To a point I beleive. As long as the vascular system could use or quickly grow to use the added input then more would make for faster growth.

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I have seen the results of rib grafting,and its OUTSTANDING!

Imagine four rooted pachanois,plugged into four ribs of a central pach.

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So... got any pics now? :drool2:

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Hmm yes, I'm curious as well. This thread has popped into my head a couple of times recently.

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Yeah, someone must have given this idea a crack for sure.

I intended to but that damn legality thing got in the way :P Blasted invisible prison!

But seriously pics would be awesome!

I want to see some grotesquely obeace fankenstein Lophs the size of watermelons!

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lol

Yeah, I had some tentative success but I stopped working on this a long time back. Ironic bump tho, as just yesterday in a perskiopsis cloning orgy I remembered this idea and pondered on ways to optimize it.

Grafting into areoles was inefficient. Possible alternatives would be to induce root formation on a stem and graft into the roots just under the skin, or for globulars graft them onto a columnar, like a skinny scop or a jusbertii, wedge grafted onto peres and graft pereskiopsis into the vascular bundle from the side at two or three points. The intensity of growth might split globulars tho.

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