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G'day Iunaelliot,

how do I help it dry and callous? Do I need to stick it to anything?

I use a garden lime for the drying agent. Please have a look my post on 24th April.

You just keep it a shady place with good airflow for 3 weeks.

Frank

Hanazono wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 3:17 am G'day Iunaelliot,

how do I help it dry and callous? Do I need to stick it to anything?

I use a garden lime for the drying agent. Please have a look my post on 24th April.

You just keep it a shady place with good airflow for 3 weeks.

Frank

Hi Frank

Thanks for your reply.

I am just wondering can I put the cactus back into a mineral based soil once it is done drying or do I need to mix some organic substances with it? Would I also need any rooting powder?

Thanks again!

G'morning lunaelliot,

I put the cactus back into a mineral based soil once it is done drying or do I need to mix some organic substances with it? Would I also need any rooting powder?

Top 2 cm is no organic based soil and others should be mixed 30% organic substances.
It is not necessary rooting powder for myrtilocactus rooting.

Frank

Hello Frank. How often do you transplant already rooted Aztekium (ritteri) into a new pot? Will you trim thin roots when transplanting (like Astophytums)? Thanks in advance.

G'morning IGR,

How often do you transplant already rooted Aztekium (ritteri) into a new pot?

Although I have rooted A. hintonii, I do not have own-rooted A. ritteri.

I do not trim roots of A. hintonii during repotting.

Frank

7 scions, Ariocarpus fissuratus cv godzilla was degrafted in this morning.
The method of degrafting is "remained short pereskiopsis stock".

Seeds were sown on 26th July 2018 and grafted young seedlings in October 2018.

They were set on rooting medium after washed their bodies.
Largest one is 11 cm. They are all flowering size and attached fruits.

Wow! Such beautiful specimens! I have to agree with you that they do look like a 'squashed frog' haha

The attached photo is degrafted Astrophytum hybrid, capricorne x red flowering asterias.
They are under drying process.

They all are flowering size and I have confirmed the flower colour "red".
Since stocks were Pereskiopsis, grafting unions were inside of scion bodies. All unions were dug out and drying agent, garden-lime were filled in holes.
I will set them in pots for the rooting when the drying process was completed.

3 Ariocarpus pectinatus were degrafted in this morning.
Seeds were sown on 8th January 2019 and young seedlings were grafted on Pereskiopsis stocks.
They are in 9.5 cm square pots.

3 Ariocarpus red flowering trigonus were repotted yesterday.
My friend brought 6 seedlings and asked me to graft in 2018.
All of them were taken and I returned him 3 of them. I confirmed flower colour last year.

12 degrafted Astrophytum hybrids were set in pots for the rooting yesterday afternoon.

Hey Hanazono,

I'm absolutely delighted to join this forum and absolutely amazed how much of absolutely valuable info you posted in regards to degrafting.

I have a small question, I have pelecyphora aselliformis prolifera grafted on pereskiopsis.

It's about 1cm in diameter where the union is and about 2 cm in height.

If I decided to degraft it in april what are chances that it will root? I know that you mentioned that best size for degraft is 3 cm, however I dont think that pereskiopsis will live that far to provide pelecyphora with speedy growth.

Thank you for any info!

G'morning Jura,

Did you graft the scion by yourself?
Can you remenber when you grafted it?

Frank

Hey,

Unfortunately i didn't graft it myself I bought it on ebay for 10euro, couldnt pass on it

If it helps pereskiopsis didn't have leaves , so I would assume that graft is definitely older than 1.5 years at this point.

I'll try to add photo to show how it looks like , just need to remember how to master forums again

https://postimg.cc/9z4tRqsH

Not sure if the photo is going to display, so adding the link. It's a tiny beauty, if it could stay on graft for another year it would be great,however i think that pereskiopsis is withering away so I wont have much time. Appreciate any advise