Lophophora split in the growing tip

[Philocacti]

So this lopho graft is about a year and half years old. Last season wasn't so good, growth wise, because I added too much lime to all my pots and my collection didn't handle it that well.

Anyway this year they are starting to recover and growth is much better compared to last year.

This lopho split open right in the middle of the growing tip and it's the first time I experience this. I'm hoping for a crest but I think it'll turn out to be like one of my mammillaria when it turned to 2 seep rate growing tips.

Time will tell

[mutant]

heh, thats not so strange

it actually seems like it dichotomised. small split, no worries, should be non visible by the middle of the season or next year

one of my last grafts, on a pachanoi KK339

is showing an extreme exploding / burst appearance, from tip as well, but also from everywhere. It looks like a fucking alien will pup from there!

caespitosa shit

I think that single head non caespitosa ones when grafted might pup from the tip, like one of mine did, but it still never through a true pup [seems to remail one head].

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lime , huh???

have you ever though to add vermiculite in your mixture??

If was in such a hot place as you I would definately try it

and it fact I got lots of it

so I might use it, but for me there's a risk of thge colder winter with plants I will leave on the roof or plants that will stay wetter in the winter in the GH [probaly less risk]

but for you , even warmer/ hotter than me

you might wanna try it. That is, IF you can get a hold of it.

fuck there HAS to be vemiculite there.

Besides Egyptians are known to know how to cultivate mushrooms from a pretty old era.

they had no verm then though

[.dg]

overwatering is a good way to split grafts IME

[bogfrog]

Coooool!

It would look great as a two-header.

Nice and tough looking too.

[mutant]

overwatering is a good way to split grafts IME

fertilising and overwatering a graft is a certain way to make it split

especially the extremely easy splitting and soft bodied lopho

[Philocacti]

Mutant my friend, I tried vermiculite but I decided not to use it again but in all honesty I can't remember why.

[irabionist]

How's this going now?

[Philocacti]

It didn't change drastically except that the 2 growing tips are growing farther apart. Funny enough I have 2 other lophophora grafts next to this one that are also split in the growing tip.

I'll try to take pics and post them

This pic is a few months ago, no it looks different than this

[Philocacti]

The other 2

[Halcyon Daze]

Awesome! Must be something in the water.

[mutant]

or the strain...

[Philocacti]

Probably the pereskiopsis + mega intense sun?

[mutant]

its definately not a strain that tends to pup a lot. Neither true caespitosa, nor a halfway caespitosa...

so maybe its common in true one-headers to split.. or else they would pup like crazy...

[Philocacti]

You're probably right

My educated guess would be that since the new tissue in the growing tip is the most tender tissue in the growing scion then that's why It gets split in the same place

Edited February 6, 2014 by Philocacti

[themallacht]

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me..