How long do albinos tipically survive?

[SomePoorPereskiopsis]

Hey everyone! I got my hands on a Mammillaria Karwinskiana fruit recently and planted them, turns out I got an albino seedling in there! It's only two days old since it sprouted later than it's siblings, but I'm planning on grafting it.

In my experience, larger scions tend to graft easier than smaller ones, so I wanted to wait a bit until it grows bigger, but albinos die because of their lack of chlorophyll. The question is how long do they take to live? One source I found says they live up to a week, while another said they could live multiple weeks and even a few months.

Here's a pic of the seedling, as you can see it's pretty small: https://imgur.com/a/jxMUiZh

[Shane]

I think it depends on the species. If I had to guess, seed size plays a pretty big role. Since albinos can't make their own food, they only grow until they run out of energy stored in the seed. Yours is already quite a bit smaller than its green brethren, it's probably stopped growing

[SomePoorPereskiopsis]

Thanks, that's a good observation. It did grow a little bit more than the picture but it hasn't grown a lot more. I'll be attempting the graft tonight after work, hopefully it'll take, I haven't grafted something this small yet.

[esp_imaging]

They often seem to survive for quite a while, without getting bigger.

[SomePoorPereskiopsis]

It looks like the cutting took, but I gave it too much humidity and began to rot, and eventually dried out and died

Oh well, better luck next time.