Rhipsalis on Pereskiopsis

[chirpie]

Thought I'd share a pic of some Rhipsalis (not sure of species) I grafted onto Pereskiopsis, 2-3 months after grafting.

[Brunãozinho]

A nice one! Congrats!

[chirpie]

Here it is 6 weeks later (the first pic was a little old when I posted it). This is even after a large piece was knocked off during a move.

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Here's a before and after of some other grafted rhipsalis:

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[snarfie]

Nice graft!

[george76904]

Nice! If you don't mind my asking; what kind of substrate are the plants in in the 2nd to last photo?

[chirpie]

It's polyacrylamide gel. Miracle-Gro sells it as "water storing crystals". It's touted as a soil additive to "prevent over- and underwatering", but I just like to root things in it.

[george76904]

Isn't that the absorbent stuff in diapers?

[chirpie]

Yep.

[george76904]

How does the gel work for rooting them?
So Chirpie, you live in Atlanta. Right? do you know any good places to get cacti or succulents up there?

[chirpie]

It's just like rooting them in water, really. I don't know if there's any advantage.
As far as good places to get cacti here, I don't know of any, but I don't get out much. Most of my nicer cacti are mail-ordered.