Should I degraft?

[mmcavall]

I'm sure these plants have already a good size to be degrafted. However I'm waiting for off-sets on them.
Can I wait a little more for the off-sets ? Or do these plants need to be degrafted? What should I do?

Thanks in advance.
Species are Copiapoa hypogaea, Rebutia albilanata, Mila caespitosa and Parodia maasii. On Pereskiopsis.

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[mmcavall]

Any suggestions? I'm considering degraft this weekend so any input or advise will be much welcome, thanks!

[Russell99]

I don't know but I think it's better to wait a bit more, those still can be rooted at that stage

[mmcavall]

I don't know but I think it's better to wait a bit more, those still can be rooted at that stage

Thank you, Russell. I'll probably wait some more, particularly with the Copiapoa.
The Parodia I think will not give offsets so it will be the first to be degrafted.
I read somewhere that leaving the plant in the stock for too long causes problems to the development of the scion. Is it true? Which kind of problems?

Thanks again

[7george]

I read somewhere that leaving the plant in the stock for too long causes problems to the development of the scion. Is it true? Which kind of problems?

Not sure what that means but I heard that Parodia cuttings is very hard to root, try it anyway. Also leaving part of Pereskiopsis stem inside the scion is not a problem: It will either dry out or produce some roots. I would also tie remaining plants to a stick for support, looks the upper part may become quite heavy further.

[Hanazono]

I read somewhere that leaving the plant in the stock for too long causes problems to the development of the scion. Is it true? Which kind of problems?

It depends upon the type of stock.
You use Pereskiopsis as the stock. Pereskiopsis is not a permanent stock.
When pereskiopsis lost leaves you can not expect fast growing of scion which should be the purpose of the grafting.
You can not expect fast growing of your scions except 1st photo.

Pereskiopsis stock looses leaves in 2 yerars and so I normally degraft scions at that time in here.
It is not easy to comment on your request because I am not sure your enviroment.

[mmcavall]

Thanks George and Frank for your comments.
I'll wait a little more, but probably not too long because I don't like grafts very much.

Frank my climate is hot, we are entering spring now and from now until April it will be mainly hot and humid.

Thanks again