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  3. areole graft

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    Great job on such a small graft. Not many would even attempt such a graft. My philosophy on this is however is it is never too early to graft so long as your not willing to risk a few failures in the pursuit of improving your skills. 

     

    What did you wrap this one with as it healed?

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  6. Super Pedro Frog

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    I wasn't wearing my glasses when I was combing through your album... and yeah... I thought it was a graft as well till i brought her up close. Speaking of which... where are the graft pictures? Your have too much good taste in seedlings not to have some grafted seedlings hidden in here.

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  7. mix

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    When I see a collection that has had cuttings taken I do tend to think "clones" as those who have the best often clone them. it is a way of ensuring you always have another of a rare item as well as providing for a means to gift others. I like to do the same, those that I like, I will make more than one of. Those those that I cut on are my mother plants so to speak. Giving birth to a multitude of babies. Those that I don't like... the become mothers as well, they are simply mothers that provide sustaining life forces to the babies they carry atop themselves. That is just how it has to be with those of us who realize when we have a great thing going. You have many great cacti. Your collection is a typical hall mark of a great collector of which there are few, but here in SAB it seems there are many as this is where the collectors like to congregate.

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  18. Lophophora cristata

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    Placing immature anthers in the refrigerator with a little cover over them to protect them from drying out can also let the pollen mature in anthers collected in that manner as well with many plants. Food for thought if your up to saving them and trying to make another cross with your destroyed anthers.

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  19. Lophophora cristata

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    Frozen pollen stays viable for more than a year. A razor blade can be used to cut into a flower and remove the anthers before it opens. Definitely helps to have a magnifying glass of some sort though if you wish to examine the pistil prior to pollination for possible self-fertilization i.e. tell tale signs of its own pollen being present such as pollen grains you did not place yourself.

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  24. 5a8354196524f_TrichocereusscopulicolaxT.terscheckii67.jpg

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    While it may be a bit early... from what I think I can tell... I'd be willing to bet almost all if not all of these are going to have some very long spines going on. It is definitely making e want to graft a few more of this cross, but alas I have too many crosses to graft 100% of each and every cross unless I continue to graft seedlings to seedlings as I've been doing here in the above picture. Albeit the seedling this one is grafted to is a bit further along.

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