Grafting Cacti to Rapidly increase your Collection There are lots of reasons for Grafting Cacti. This article is about how to use grafting to quickly increase the quantity of a particular cactus or clone. I’m going to use Trichocereus Bridgesii clone, “True Blue” as the subject/scion. It’s one of my favourites! It has a nice…
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Grafting Cacti to isolate variegation Part 3
The grafts in this post were actually performed before the grafts in the previous article, part 2 the Wedge Graft. However I wrote them in this order because I thought part 2 followed part 1 from a continuity perspective. In this post I initially used 2 areole grafts and 2 slab grafts making sure I…
Grafting Cacti to isolate variegation Part 2 -The Wedge Graft
The initial Wedge Graft method was used in Grafting Cacti to isolate variegation Part 1. In that instance it wasn’t entirely a success, because the contact between the scion and rootstock wasn’t ideal and it was difficult to cut the scion to include a piece of the vascular ring. Therefore the Wedge Graft method had…
Grafting Cacti to isolate variegation Part 1
From time to time you might notice some variegation has appeared on the new growth of your cactus. In this instance my Trichocereus KK339 Pachanoi clone threw out a new pup with some variegation along one of the ribs. Therefore, if you wish to isolate the variegation and produce a pup, with even more variegation,…
Grafting Cacti Part 3
Grafting Cactus Seedlings Pereskiopsis is often used as a rootstock for grafting cactus seedlings. It is a commonly used method, but this article is not about that (there’s lots of videos on YouTube) . It’s about an alternative method which I came up with after writing the previous article about grafting cacti. If you haven’t…
Grafting Cacti Part 2
I decided to write this article about grafting cacti after writing about my Trichocereus Peruvianus clone, “Ferret”. So if you haven’t read about Ferret then follow the link as it will put the following more into context. But first here is a quick refresher. Both these photos were taken on the same day. The graft…
Grafting Cacti Part 1
There’s a stack of info on the internet about grafting cacti. So rather than turn this into another tutorial with alot info you possibly already know, I thought I’d cover just few points that sometimes get overlooked or possibly aren’t commonly known. Then at the end there’s a link to a tutorial which I reckon…