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Lophophora Grafts and Dormany "?"

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Hi Folks!

I have a few lophophora grafted on peresiopsis and San Pedro stalks. I understand San Pedro and Loph like to have a winter dormancy period. When The cacti are grafted does that change anything? I would imagine the Pedro/Loph grafts would enjoy a rest period but what about Pereskiopsis/Loph? Being unfamiliar with the growth cycle of this "tropical" cactus, is it requires to give these a dormancy period? Secondly, is there anyone out there that lets their Lophophora grafts grow year round? Will it weaken the cactus? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Guys!

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It is not required to give them dormancy conditions but you will find they will slow down their growth either way. I grow some plants in a controlled environment under lights etc and even without changing the environment at all they will slow down for a well deserved rest at some point. Additionally, I have found a good period of dormancy encourages flowering, and faster overall growth in the long term.

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not too mention a period of dormancy with pere as stock is essential if you are fertilizing and feeding heavy, if you want to avoid mutated scions, and if you try and pump the growth continually on pere with lights and fertz, you will split scions, but this can result in multi headed examples of many genus/species, which can be great if your trying to acquire more graft-able scions.

EDIT: just keep the sulpur handy for when your grafts start splitting and throwing pups like crazy on pere ( i use tomato dust)

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