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Another nice trick. I use clothes pins for the same effect when I'm not using parafilm as parafilm negates the need for any device to hold it in place. -
Nice, I use this same approach when grafting seedlings just a week old to Trichocereus. How long do you personally leave the wrap on? -
My favorite trick to hold seedlings this size on the stock is to simply take a sheet of parafilm or cling wrap and place it over the seeding. Parafilm can be stretched nicely over the seedling and will adhere to itself as well as the stock so it is less likely to slip. Parafilm also breathes very nicely. Cling wrap does not breath so well, but if you remove it after the first 2 days there are generally no problems. This is how I graft seedlings to a stock this size. For a smaller size stock such as Pereskiopsis I often use a clothespin to hold the cling wrap in place if not using parafilm. One must also be careful not to pull too hard on the cling wrap especially as this can smash your seedlings. If you don't like using either of those two methods, don't water your grafting stock for a few days prior to your graft and a few days after grafting and this will improve your chances of success. This graft was done using this last method of simply not watering your Pereskiopsis for a few days before and after. Personally, I prefer to hold my seedling grafts down in place with another material rather than simply rely on this method however. Please understand, when I say hold down in place with a material such as this a gentle approach must be taken as it is very easy to crush a seedling that has its cotyledons still in place. To get an idea of the feel for this, simply cut your seedling and take a square of cling wrap and place it over the seedling. Lightly pick up your seedling with a pinching motion by the cling wrapped outside and place that on your cut stock. Gently fold your cling wrap or parafilm around the stock and then pinch it closed with a clothes pin or a a bit of tape of cling wrap. The parafilm will hold itself closed so it is easier in that regard as well. -
My grandfather used to love to grow super large pumpkins, watermelons, etc. back in the day. Of course he is long gone having been born in the year 1900. However, he didn't do anything fancy other than stick a bunch of fish guts under his favorite plants. Of course you could often find him sitting not too far away with his gun aimed at the foxes that would often come out during the first few weeks of planting to dig up those fish guts, but it was worth it to him to have some of the biggest crops in the area. He also used to burn sulfur in his tobacco fields as he swore it made his tobacco better and placed dead snakes in trees to make it rain. I can't vouch for the efficacy of those later two, but the first definitely works. It also helps to have a few hundred chickens to gather fecal matter up from. Tilling that into the ground helps heaps as well. Suffice it to say I'm a big fan of natural organic fertilizers. If you put too much non-composted material into your mix such as leaves, branches, etc. though you will find that the nitrogen is robbed from your plants you are trying to grow.
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My top picks are probably always going to be seedlings as that is what really gets me excited. Seeing something new unfold for the first time and seeing that first flower. With that being said, the top three on my list are Peru2 x Validus as this one looks like she is going to be a massive little thing. Number 2 on my list would be a cotyledon graft I recently did with (SS02 x SS01) x red grandi as the seedlings were grafted to each other while they still had their cotyledons, I am very excited about this graft as it is already a few weeks old and it has obviously taken. Lastly, I have this nice hunk of gold, also the same cross as the last. I'm hopeful for it just like I am some of its other brother and sisters. All Zelly seedlings of course, ergo my excitement is more than warranted. Note, these are my top 3 at the moment and I can't pick an absolute winner out of the bunch for my favorite just yet. I love phat Trichocereus, but I also love oddities and both of the last two fit the bill of being oddities. I mean, how many grafts do you see on a daily that are done at the cotyledon stage like this? Sure, many cotyledon grafts are done with horizontal cut, but with a vertical cut... you don't see that every day.
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I'm a little confused. First, the assumption that one must keep things for yourself to stay empowered... does that really work? Is it a requirement of being empowered that you keep things to yourself?
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From the album: Hybrid propagation via grafting or crosspollination
Here we have (SS02 x SS01) mom x (red grandi) dad courtesy again of Zelly. Stock plant is Trichocereus pachanoi. I am hoping to get some nice flowers on these crosses asap. If these hybrids act like some of Zelly's other hybrids I suspect I will have flowers within 2 years on some of these and that is when the fun really begins. Again, I'm a little excited as these little seedlings represent a wonderful new direction of possibilities that I fully intend to explore. -
From the album: Hybrid propagation via grafting or crosspollination
Here we have (SS02 x SS01) mom x (red grandi) dad courtesy again of Zelly. Stock plant is Trichocereus pachanoi -
From the album: Hybrid propagation via grafting or crosspollination
Just another update on Trichocereus Peru2 x validus hybridized by Zelly. As you can see, she has a nice pup coming along at her base. -
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Hybrid courtesy of Zelly. Grafted cotyledon seedling are a few weeks old today so it look like 100% success here folks. This means the graft of either seedling to each other was a success as well as the graft of both seedlings to the stock plant was also a success. I'm frigging elated.- 6 comments
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One more update on this cotyledon graft. Picture taken today so it is 100% obvious this little guy has been grafted not just in one place, but in a minimum of two places for this graft to look the way it does today.
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Embrace the discomfort.
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Nice, looks like Datura metel var. chlorantha x Datura metel var. fastuosa -
I began to turn my head gradually and slowly. I thought, I must be moving about the same speed as the hour hand on a clock. After what seemed like hours had passed I finally glimpsed the menacing rattler at my feet. It was a moth and an ant doing battle on my pipe. Fighting all night long. I remember thinking how I didn’t know if I could simply stand another night. And here this moth and ant were fighting for their life the entire night without a moments break. It was at that moment that I gained a profound respect for both that moth and the ant. I watched for many more hours as the two continued to do battle until finally the ant dragged the moth off and out of my eyesight. I watched as a butterfly landed on one of the trees that had fallen. The butterfly opened and closed its wings a few times and then one of the times the wings should have opened the butterfly revealed itself to be an eye on the tree. Only the tree was no longer a tree, but a wolf. I was very thankful for the hardships and the fears I had to face as without them I am almost certain I would never have made it to this point. Dusk was upon me and I saw flies coming out of who knows where. The flies landed on my prayer ties… all 606 of them. My prayer ties and prayer flags were soon completely covered with flies. I could not stand flies if the truth be told and I secretly cringed inside. I did not move to kill or swat them though as I was told this is not allowed on a vision quest. Instead, I tried to embrace what they were…. By the time darkness had completely fallen I was myself completely covered in flies. Then the flies turned turned into little blue lights that floated about in the night. Millions of little blue lights were everywhere lighting up the night sky. Skipping ahead. This is how I actually looked after that ordeal. Shoes were put on to come down from the hill. Suffice it to say my soft bottomed feet would not have done well if I had to walk down that hill without them and suffice it to say my feet were already in severe pain from having to stand for 4 days.
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From the album: Hybrid propagation via grafting or crosspollination
Zelly hybrid seedling graft Peru2 x Validus. -
From the album: Hybrid propagation via grafting or crosspollination
Zelly hybrid seedling graft Peru2 x Validus -
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Zelly hybrid seedling graft Peru2 x Validus-
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From the album: Hybrid propagation via grafting or crosspollination
Zelly hybrid seedlings grafted to areoles of Pereskiopsis -
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Seedlings grafted to areoles. -
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Zelly hybrid seedlings triple grafted. Two seedlings grafted to areoles of Pereskiopsis. -
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Zelly hybrid seedlings grafted to Trichocereus pachanoi. SS02 x SS01 x Red Grandi -
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(SS02 x SS01) mom x Red Grandi (dad) grafted to areole of Pereskiopsis -
From the album: Hybrid propagation via grafting or crosspollination
Cotyledon graft done between two seedlings and graft then inserted into wedge graft of mature Pereskiopsis.-
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Salvinorin A&B found in Turkish Salvia species
Inyan replied to Auxin's topic in Pharmacology, Chemistry & Medicine
http://www.hardyplants.com/seeds/SA81-A3.html Salvia recognita seeds are only $2.95 at this place and they might indeed make for some interesting hybrids with Salvia divinorum if one made the cross both ways. An interesting article on hybridization of Salvia. http://journal.ashspublications.org/content/136/1/41.full -
Salvinorin A&B found in Turkish Salvia species
Inyan replied to Auxin's topic in Pharmacology, Chemistry & Medicine
Still, one might consider making hybrids between these species that contain different genetics yet, still contain the active particulars. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28722248
