Grafting Comp- Feb 2007- No new entries

[teonanacatl]

This is the official thread since EBA is f*cked. Please respond here if you intend to participate and post your update pics here. All discussion welcome aswell

[SirLSD]

here is my leading graft. cardona on pachanio in soil. two seedlings were grafted here. obviously only one of them got a good connection with the vascular ring.

more pics slowly goping up in my blog

sofar 14 grafts have taken out of about 30 or forty

only one of my peres grafts have shown signs of growing.

[teonanacatl]

my biggest is 3cm,was the only one i grafted on the starting day I will post some pics next weekend after i go through and remove non growing ones.

[tobias]

I'm still in. My biggest graft is only a bit over 1cm now, it was done on Feb 4 I believe. Looks very healthy to me but isn't growing anywhere near as fast as yours. I'll get a picture or 2 over the weekend.

[teonanacatl]

Here is one sown before the comp started, its about 0.8cm and growing a flower!!!! Gotta be the smallest loph ever to flower?

Here is my biggest one for the comp, its a double header approx 3cm, looks like crap in this pic but its doing well.

Here are other grafts of mine, not all for the comp, you can see some roots that were grafted are pupping.

Hmm i gotta get another set of hands to hold that ruler lol

[ferret]

holy crap guys thems some impressive pics.

sirLSD thats awesome growth for a little over a month dude good shit, careful that fucker doesnt split

teo youre obviously a sick sick man hehe

ive got a couple of entries id put pics up but theyre still too small for the macro lens. hah

hopefully a variegated 'knuthianus' hybrid and some ariocarpus

i drink tea each morning and gaze upon my knuthianus, it is fucking cool haha

[SirLSD]

teonanacatl, whats up with that double headed one? is it one plant with a large pup or is it two seperate seedlings grafted onto the same stock? the photo makes it look like two seperate grafts pushing against each other.

[teonanacatl]

its one graft with two heads the same size, just grew like that.

[occidentalis]

I hereby officially announce my participation in the competition

I have had a chronic shortage of stock but I have slowly grafted a loph or two here and there since the beginning of the comp when stock became available so I may actually have a few grafts to show. I've got at least one success so far!

So far grafted diffusa and standard williamsi for the comp, as well as some L koehresii and some named location varieties, which were sown before the starting date, so not a part of the competition but interesting anyway.

I'll post some pics when I have something interesting to show.

[Hagakure]

i have posted a pic of the only loph graft i have that appeared to work.

most of my grafts did not take. some that did got munched by a rogue caterpillar that somehow got into my growing fishtank.

not very impressive compared to the competition in this thread but im learning and im having fun and thats all that matters (you all better watch out next competition though )

[ferret]

still babies compared with yours fellas.. heres variegated knuthianus and ario fissuratus

Edited April 17, 2007 by ferret

[teonanacatl]

[Dodie]

Nice work there Teo

That variegated knuthianus is going to be a stunner ferret

[XipeTotec]

teo, u r a fucking god... I hope I can achieve the same awesomeness one day.

[SirLSD]

looking good teonanacatl.

the race is on!

here is my leading two that are blowing the rest of mine away. a texana and a cardona. few more pics will be up on my blog.

[mark80]

teo, u r a fucking god... I hope I can achieve the same awesomeness one day.

Yeah he is, I've seen him graft and he does it with such ease. I have spent hours trying to get the cuts like he does.

[naja naja]

Better late than never hey. Warning, LARGE MIDDLE IMAGE! Broadband only.

Building up stock.

My very first ever grafts. I grafted 11 and tonight, 96 hours later. 10 still look perfect the only exception being the seedling I dropped on the floor.

Edited October 17, 2007 by naja naja

[Kenny Blister]

Nice work fellas. I've got some catching up to do, hopefully my last lot of grafting will take.

[teonanacatl]

I did another 50 yesturday, also tried some wedge grafts with some older lophs, if they take then ill be doing a lot more of those to use my some stocks. Ive also cut all my graft stocks with grafts on down as they were to difficult to manage at the size they were, so hopefully they root asap and start growing again.

[ferret]

found out this ario is actually kotschoubeyanus. the fissuratus graft is staying plump but no action still...

Edited May 15, 2007 by ferret

[ferret]

first up ss01 x ss02

T. peruvianus 'Los Banos' x T. pallarensis

[SaBReT00tH]

wow, very impressive pics all!!

[SirLSD]

teonanacatl, hows your biggest ones going? mine have slowed down a lot. havent done much in the past month or 2. though some smaller ones are going ok in the same conditions. weird.

[teonanacatl]

Ill post some pics:) soon

[SirLSD]

mine had all slowed down for a month as i went back to just the hpw 250W light as the MH kept flicking off the clipsal switch. tried it again last week and it isnt doing it anymore (still buzzing hell loud though) so am back to the 250W MH plus 250W HPS. they seem to have started to grow again. here are 2 pics of my best 2 by far. a cardona with pup and a texana with pup.