After laying on that dry soil for 3-4 weeks, they should be ready to get rooted & potted. The main head of the biggest one on the top-right, is measuring 4.2 cm..
Friday, April 20, 2007
Degraft massacre
For various reasons, beeing the Pereskiopsis stock loosing all its leaves, or to avoid the scions to pup too wildly, I decided to degraft some of them. They are approx. 6-7 months old now:
After laying on that dry soil for 3-4 weeks, they should be ready to get rooted & potted. The main head of the biggest one on the top-right, is measuring 4.2 cm..
After laying on that dry soil for 3-4 weeks, they should be ready to get rooted & potted. The main head of the biggest one on the top-right, is measuring 4.2 cm..
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I have Pereskiopsis stock that I am about to use for grafting. The well rooted healthy plants have stalks that are leafless up to 9" above the soil line. I was going to cut the stalks at about 6" up and graft seedlings here. This will leave the stock leafless, do you think this will be a problem?
It could work, but note that when pereskiopsis lose its leaves, the scion will grow *much* slower. Better re-root the top of it, and use that for grafting. The rest of the plant will branch anyways, so you will have lots of stock to graft on later.
Hey I really like your cactus blog. I found it while looking up suitable soils for pereskiopsis. I'm about to get my first pereskiopsis cutting in the mail and this blog and the pictures are making me really excited. Hopefully my loph. williamsii v. caespitosa will pup as much as yours (or even successfully graft since it's my first attempt) next summertime or so.
In the meantime I really need to make an indoor growing spot.
Thanks, and good luck Nathan :)
Pereskiopsis is not very picky about soil, i have actually used common potting soil. They grow like weeds in allmost any soil.
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