Inyan
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New Grafts done today... scions are a bit larger..than the lettering on the penny as you can see.
Friday the 13... you know I had to do at least a few
grafts. Anyone else make any grafts today?
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12 July 2018.
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Who let the grafts out!
11 July 2018
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8 hours ago, Gimli said:Occasionally we see listings with funny descriptions.
This is not one of them
That is crazy price and someone actually bid on that one! Funny advert as well I might add. Thanks for sharing.
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On 5/3/2018 at 5:16 AM, TheMooseZeus said:No pics but i finally planted some green caapi seeds!
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Planting and collecting seeds is where its at. While I like many clones, it is through the planting of seeds that we get those many of those unique clones.
With that being said, my own day was pretty humdrum, but then I did get to collect a few seeds from my own Datura discolor.
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On 7/10/2018 at 1:36 AM, DualWieldRake said:
Would have grafted more but ran out of supporting sticks
I'm definitely loving your lollipop stick grafts my friend.
10 July 2018... another little update
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24 minutes ago, Halcyon Daze said:Flippin' sweet grafts man
Thanks my friend. I post pictures of my grafts with the idea that those that graft already will share their works as well. More importantly however, I hope that those that have never grafted will look at how easy this is and make better grafts themselves to share with us.
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9 july 2018
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8 July 2018... another whole day has passed.
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10 hours ago, Elrik said:This morning I have spotted the first glimmer of growth on a 10 day old Loph-jusbertii graft, those tiny spines were not there when I grafted
I love catching the moment when the first trace of success is evident.
Love to see that new life pumping hard for you my friend.
Likewise, I noted a very small graft hidden in amongst my stock plants. I can't believe I overlooked this little monstrosity for so long!
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7 July 2018... grafted scion moved to full sun growing the way it is supposed to grow. Did someone put their scions in the shade after they grafted?
What?
Grafts out and suns blazing this is how we do it.
Got my mind on my grafts and my grafts on my mind.
Laid back
Sippin on some long island iced tea
Singing,
And this is how we do it!
I've got 99 problems but a graft ain't one.
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Having made woody grafts... what you say meets up with everything I've also experienced so I'm inclined to believe you.
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9 hours ago, Pedropark said:I had coffee with a new aquired peruvianus tipp
Holy cow that is one nice looking tip. And yes, just the tip is perfectly fine with a specimen like this.
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Not a problem H,
Listening more to what you are saying, it sounds like you might benefit from sitters who are able to watch from afar to give you your space, but who can remain close enough to ensure you are safe. If that is indeed what you want, I would make sure you have the ground rules laid out for how much interaction and interference you would like from your sitters prior to any journey.
Something as simple as your sitters playing music a good distance away from you can substantially alter the quality and nature of your journey. Especially so if you have positive or negative emotions attached to that music.
In this modern age, it is not uncommon for a yuwipi to utilize binoculars to check up on those on a vision quest for example. A supporter may even be asked to go up and check more closely on a particular person if they look like they are in distress. It is far better to interfere too much in what is supposed to be a solo and personal journey or quest than it is to have that person die which could indeed happen on something like a vision quest. What is meant to be a symbolic death and rebirth should stay that way.
A supporter on a typical Lakota vision quest will often sing ceremonial songs loud enough to be heard by the one they are supporting. The aim being to be heard and not seen, but to be able to provide the needed strength and emotional support to those they are supporting.
At the end of such a quest, the supporters are gifted something from the quester. This is always nice to do for someone who has given of their time so selflessly for you.
At any rate, food for thought....
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On 6/30/2018 at 5:31 PM, Auxin said:Theres this guy in the Pereskiopsis Grafting Group on facebook who swears that by grafting to old 'brown' pereskiopsis stems, like ones that have supported a scion for 8+ months, the new graft will be semi-permanent and the graft union wont tend to eventually fail.
I've only ever grafted to tender new growth and I've only seen people graft to tender new growth.
Has anyone grafted directly to an old woody stem? What was the outcome?
I find a single claim on facebook dubious but if there is even a chance it could let a pereskiopsis graft stay good for 2+ years it'd be worth a few trials.
Knowledge worth having is always worth a few trials if it is something your interested in. My suggestion, try it before you discount it.
For me, I find this is the easiest way to get a more long term stock for a seedling
as shown here by a seedling that has been growing for some time on this old stock. Still, you could just as easily graft your root stock to your Pereskiopsis and then graft to that as I have done here
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And update on how the above looks today. And yes, I had to share one last picture of one of my areole grafts attached here as I no longer have any variegated crested areole grafts. They have all been sent to new homes where they can be adored rather than ignored. The scar tissue on the thumb is from one of my first Brugmansia grafts a few decades ago. Like my better grafts... that scar can barely be seen anymore.
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One thing we generally figure out as we get older is it is okay not to rush things. What this might mean for someone in your circumstances is to wait until you do have an in person mentor/sitter or loved one at the very least as a last resort
Second best to that and perhaps in conjunction you may find that simply growing the plant you would like to experience may help build a psychological and spiritual connection that may positively benefit your experience. You may even want to consider taking sub threshold amounts of the particular pejuta you are working with on a few occasions and gradually work your way up to a full threshold experience over a period of time. There certainly is no need to jump straight into a full blown mind melting experience with any pejuta
Slow, safe, and steady....
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Right now, I'm not sure what is glowing in the garden after I tried to sell a variegated crested pachanoi on the bay for 2.22.With that being said, I've got to re-evaluate what I'm going to graft next just as soon as my stock gets a bit bigger.
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Misplants definitely throws out a lot of variegated and crested cacti.
Ethylmethane sulfonate (EMS) can be used to induce point mutations. Soaking your seed in a solution of 0.2% (w/v) EMS may produce those genetic mutations you like, but it is also very carcingogenic so it must be handled with care. Suffice it to say, any chemical you use to induce genetic mutations should likely be handled with care if you haven’t had any offsprings yet yourself… especially important. The downside of coarse with a treatment like this is that you are also likely to lose a large percentage of your seed as they will simply fail to germinate.
Alternately or concurrently, one might wish to experiment with colchicine to induce polyploidy with your seedlings as this can sometimes result in phenotype changes. This is especially true with hybrids and may even improve fertility in hybrids that are not generally fertile.
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I'm with Evil Genius on the topping layer as it just obscures the green mat that sits on top of a well watered Trichocereus cacti's soil.
However, I don't use lava, or pumice in my Trichocereus soil. I have used good strong composted cow manure, bone meal, blood meal, fish emulsion, etc. however mixed into my soil. However, with the latter especially one must be aware that the smell can get very strong and it can attract wild life to ones cacti.
I'm also not knocking the use of material to make your soil dry out faster. Bogponics or hydroponics is not for everyone. But I will say that I have grown many different species of cacti from germination up to adult specimens that way and it does work. Everyone has their own way of growing cacti and as long as it works for you that is what matters.
Open fresh cuts in a cacti however can be very much like an open wound on an animal. Wetness or humidity simply adds to the ability of microorganisms to feast on the open wound and once an opportunistic pathogen takes hold it can spread throughout the tissues of your cacti if you don't get it in hand and removed. Better to cut and remove too much than to have to cut twice.
of course, if your grafting and growing your Pereskiopsis in hydroponics, bogponics, etc.... then things just got a whole lot faster.
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Any well calloused Trichocereus that can't handle sitting in water isn't worth growing in my book. As you can see from my Icaro specimens all grown from seed and in standing water that has grown algae no less from the length of time they have sat in the water.
Why save bad genetics by grafting them?
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If you suspect rot then dig it up and confirm rot. If there is indeed rot, cut at least an inch above the rot.. yeah, what he said! Lol, literally beat me to it as I was reading at the same time.
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43 minutes ago, od101010 said:I had 100% success with this lot (impale graft) kinda cheating lol
100% success is 100% success though my friend.
But yeah, if your not grafting 2-3 day old seedlings your wasting time waiting for them to get big enough to impale and if they are big enough to impale why aren't you areole grafting?
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