The life of a grafted button

[Philocacti]

Since a lot of people here like this specimen ......

And today life has ended for this peyote as a single headed monster, I guess it felt lonely

[Amazonian]

Its good to see the progression. Nicely done. Awesome specimen .

[Sola]

Thanks for showingn the transition through time, how long roughly do you think it was from the first to the last photo?

I'm just interested to know how long one can expect to wait when things go well

I'm going to have to have another good look, just finished some work and went to the site for some hard earned R & R when I saw this,

It's truly awesome, I love it

You should be proud

Oops.....just saw the 2 year period in the subtitle

Edited May 13, 2011 by Sola

[GoOnThen]

That is brilliant series of pics Philo

Are you happy that it is pupping or would you rather it stays as it is?

Cheers

Got

Edited May 12, 2011 by GoOnThen

[Quill]

Glorious!

I've drooled over this four times already but had to come see it again.

Thanks for taking the time to post this. Marvellous

[tripsis]

Beautiful pictorial Philo. Amazing growth too. You do good grafts!

[Marcel]

Awesome! Well done, and thanks.

What's the time span?

[tripsis]

The life of a grafted button in a 2 year period

[Alice]

Excellent! Thanks for taking the time to post your pictures.

[Philocacti]

thanks a lot for the positivity people, i really appreciate it

I'm just interested to know how long one can expect to wait when things go well

I believe when things start up well they probably continue this way. However, when i saw the thread about the huge lopho graft rotting in this thread i thought i might be more careful. However i live in a very dry weather.

i can't believe that 2 whole years have passed since i grafted this pup. Never thought i would end up with a spiral lopho

just finished some work and went to the site for some hard earned R & R when I saw this

sorry but what is R & R?

Are you happy that it is pupping or would you rather it stays as it is?

To tell you the truth, i wanted to see how big a lophophora can get to, however her pupping doesn't bother me, but i dislike caestoposa pupping.

Thanks again for the encouragement

[Marcel]

Ah nuts. Sorry 'bout my stupidity; I didn't notice the subtitle.

And 2 years is incredible. That guy is huge! How old was it at the time of the grafting? Would a loph grafted onto a peres grow quicker than on a trich? Inspiring stuff. Prior to this thread I've not been too interested in grafting, but now I'm gonna have a go when summer comes around again.

Thanks again.

[Philocacti]

if i remember correctly, the pup was about a year old

this grafting stock is a stenocereus not a tricho.

to me grafting on pereskiopsis is better with very young small seedling and pereskiopsis makes grafted lophophora flower in about 3 months. So for seed production pereskiopsis is really good. however, lopho graft (older than a year or so) have their bottom half around the pereskiopsis stock, so if you want to cut the graft to graft to a tricho (or even to root)you lose the bottom part. This is my experience.

with columnar cacti, you graft bigger buttons or pups. The grafts produce flowers in longer time than pereskiopsis, but in the long run the graft has a better stable future. It will be more vigorous for a longer time and grow much bigger (after the initial 1st year)

like this pereskiopsis graft is also 2 years

obviously it's not as big and it would be much harder to root, unlike the one on stenocereus.

However, all that i wrote is my little experience, maybe someone with more experience has another saying at that

[nut]

im gunna try this with a fast growing pc pedro,i gota get something like that

[Philocacti]

When you do, please take pics of it's development and post them

I can say like parents, you can't believe how fast they grow

[George]

That spiral pattern is just beutifull.

[Philocacti]

it seems that when it rains it pours, yesterday i found 2 new pups so all in all it has three pups, but only 2 show in the pic

[Rabelais]

Stunning. Softball anyone?

[kadakuda]

killer bor. very well done. next time someone asks about why graft, I can just give them the link to this thread lol.

I also like your choice in stock. steno is an absolute favourite of mine as well, its an amazing stock! No peresk fraft looks that good, peresk makes things look like caespitosa....oozing blobs that spread, not big ol balls of peyote like that beaut.

my personal opinion is pedro is faster than steno, but often pups more and is certainly far less hardy than say S. grisueus or S. pruinosus which are very much hardy stocks (for wet).

philo, great stuff. it looks like your trying to twist it off to get a drink, its spiral is wicked cool.

[Philocacti]

Thanks

kada, it means a lot to me reading this from you, im very much humbled

[Philocacti]

1st fruit it ever produced, so im guessing it got pollinated from a L. williamsii pollen.

[tripsis]

Looking good mate. Planning on sowing those seeds and doing it all over again?

[Philocacti]

thanks tripsis,

yup im planing on germinating it and grafting it to pereskiopsis. i want to see if the offspring will be self-fertile or will they be like the mother plant self-sterile.

[Philocacti]

the small spines are very evident on the small pups

[Philocacti]

it's still growing with steady speed

[Philocacti]

another grafted button, it's a L. williamsii but acting like a caestopsa or BAPed

Edited July 2, 2011 by Philocacti