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I do the preparation of grafting in winter every year.

I cut back Pereskiopsis stocks in this afternoon.
I will sow seeds in July and graft seedlings in September onto newly grown off-shoots of Pereskiopsis.

Pereskiopsis before cut back, 48 pots
https://cactiguide.com/forum/download/f ... w&id=68714

Pereskiopsis after cut back
https://cactiguide.com/forum/download/f ... w&id=68715

Looking forward to watching your grafting for this upcoming season!

I use "olive pot", 9 cm square x 18 cm height for grafted cacti.
The usage of pots is different in each year but it is around 200 in service and 100 as spare.
I prepare the spare pots in winter.

Used pots are dipped into water mixed around 5% of bleach and held several days.
They are washed and dried after.
These spare pots will be used next spring. I dried pot yesterday.
https://cactiguide.com/forum/download/f ... w&id=68934

Since 3 new off-shoots reached 15 cm lenght, I cut them and prepared for the grafting in this morning.

The grafting process of seedlings was completed in this morning.
Scions: Ariocarpus (lloydi x godzilla) x godzilla
Since I got seeds from my friend, I am not sure this pollination concept.

All 3 scions were grafted successfully. The photo is one of them.
https://cactiguide.com/forum/download/f ... w&id=71554

The grafting process of 4 seedlings was completed in this morning.
They were grafted 10 days ago.
Seedlings are Ariocarpus fissuratus cv godzilla.
The attached photo is one of them.
https://cactiguide.com/forum/download/f ... w&id=71737

Seeds of ariocarpus fissuratus cv godzilla given by my friend were sown on 16th July 2019.
12 seeds were germinated.
4 of them were completed the grafting and 7 are under the grafting process.
1 of them grows very slowly. I am waiting it to reach the possible size of grafting.
The photo is the slow growing seedling.
https://cactiguide.com/forum/download/f ... w&id=71739

My friend brought 6 seedlings, 3 year olds Ariocarpus fissuratus on Monday this week and asked me to graft them.
He said he tried to graft by himself but he failed all.
I normally graft 2~3 months old Ariocarpus seedlings and 3 years old is too old for my grafting method.

6 Pereskiopsis off-shoot cuttings were set for rooting on Tuesday and grafted them on Wedsday, yesterday.
I am not quite suer but I will wait the result.

Thanks for sharing your progress so far.

I am still waiting for new shoots of pereskiopsis to reach size.
Since where I live now weather is cooler they took longer to start growing again. I am expecting a reduced period of time in which I can graft.

Looking forward to seeing your progress!

G'morning waker87,

Do you use any fertilizers?
I use old chicken pellet manure for Pereskiopsis.

Frank

Hi Frank,
I use blood and bone fertiliser and also soluble fertiliser.

It snowed where I live now so it gets very cold, still in Victoria.

The grafting process of 6 scions was completed and they were repotted in this morning.
7 were grafted actually but one of them failed.
Scions are Ariocarpus fissuratus cv godzilla.
The photo is one of them.
https://cactiguide.com/forum/download/f ... w&id=71918

I grafted a variegated Ariocarpus fissuratus cv godzilla seedling 10 days ago.
The grafting process was completed and repotted it in this morning.
https://cactiguide.com/forum/download/f ... w&id=72233

My friend brought a pot with 4 seedlings in and asked me to graft.
Seeds were sown 9th December 2018, 1 year old seedlings.
Only one was possible condition to graft unfortunately.
The one was grafted successfully.
The name tag said "RUMA LAUI" but I am not sure the name.
https://cactiguide.com/forum/download/f ... w&id=72583

Your mystery seedlings could be rimacactus laui