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[occidentalis]

In order to inspire people for the upcoming EBA grafting competition, and just generally to show them off, I will post a series of images detailing the growth and development of a Lophophora williamsii seedling I recently grafted onto Pereskiopsis. The graft was done on the 19th of August. The scion was sown in March this year (making it 5 months old at grafting), and was a plant germinated from seed collected from one of my own Lophs, which I purchased from a commercial nursery where it was labelled "Lophophora caespitosa". It has not shown any caespitose tendencies.

The photos are small as I'm on dial up at the moment so should be accessible to all.

The first photo was taken when I first noticed that it was growing, which was september 10th (3 weeks after grafting):
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September 19th:
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The graft continued to grow new aereoles for a few weeks and was relatively uninteresting photographically, so I waited until November 17th when I noticed it had started pupping.
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This last one was taken today, November 29th:
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I'll keep updating this every time it does something worth photographing...

[teonanacatl]

Cool

I gotta do some test grafts soon for the peres comp, if I get my camera soon Ill post them too.

[transDiMenTional]

looks like its got caespitosa tendancies to me ;)

[MORG]

That Sept 19th photo is one of the cutest scions

[occidentalis]

looks like its got caespitosa tendancies to me ;)

Yes it does, but the parent is 4-5 cm across, plenty of furry tufts and shows no sign of pupping.

[naja naja]

I was under the impression that Normal L. williamsii seeds regularly pup like mad when grafted, even when the are not caespitosa. There were pics around of a member (maybe it was Mex) who drilled the apical meristem out of young lopg grafts to make them pup like mad.

When the grafted Lophs pup, it's just pupping because of all the extra growth happening, it needs places to "burst out". I wouldn't consider this true caespitosa as it's most likely a result of grafting rather than genetics. True caespitosa would pup even if it had not been grafted.

Is this along the right lines?

[Pisgah]

Yeah,

even non-caespitose lophs will pup like that on pereskiopsis.

[niggles]

So what happened to your graft?
Got any where are they now photos?

[mutant]

niggles this is a thread from 2006

[occidentalis]

Yeah well it's definitely about time I updated it then! Thanks for the reminder
I think the plant that was in these photos is actually in the care of a friend who I left it with when I went over seas. But here are some photos of plants I grafted in the same batch from March this year:


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[naja naja]

sexy!

[mutant]

Super!

[ErraneousHerbalist]

Very sexy indeed.

Edited by ErraneousHerbalist, 11 October 2011 - 01:28 AM.