I’ve got a purple grafted gymno, which I heard can grow on own roots. I’ve dove this multiple times until I had no offsets left
I pulled off an offset, let it dry 2 days, then placed in a cacti soil perlite mix and misted daily with water. I had it under a grow light and it was warm. They all shriveled and never grew roots. What’s the right way to do this? I’ve given up that it’s impossible I just want one of these not grafted.
How do I root grafted gymno pups?
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Re: How do I root grafted gymno pups?
Maybe the cuttings are too small? Depends on species, but cuttings that are too small will often dry up before they can root, especially if kept in direct sun or too close to lights.
Re: How do I root grafted gymno pups?
I agree with MrX, also, can you show us a photo of the plant?
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Re: How do I root grafted gymno pups?
How big must the pups be? Mine were about the size of a dime coin. I can’t upload a photo but my cactus looks exactly like this. https://planetdesert.com/products/graft ... hanovichii
Re: How do I root grafted gymno pups?
Dime size in diameter? I would go for something like grape size, it needs the body volume to to not shrink too fast.keithp2012 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:25 am How big must the pups be? Mine were about the size of a dime coin.
Alejandro
Re: How do I root grafted gymno pups?
I have noticed that some cacti will throw off aerial roots if the humidity is high enough, in the next few weeks I’m going to start a few experiments for rooting cuttings.
Hope you can get one to root brother!
Hope you can get one to root brother!
Zone 6B, Kentucky. 860ft Elevation.
Re: How do I root grafted gymno pups?
I normally select more than 3 cm diameter off-sets for rooting but off-set of some species are hard to reach 3 cm. I use a method shown on the sketch if the off-set was smaller than 3 cm.
1: An off-set for rooting
2. Any coarse materials to mimimize dried up of the off-set, I use coarse pumice sand.
3. Any rooting medium, I use 2~4 mm pumice sand.
An elderly cactus collecter told me:
It was possible to import cacti from USA long time ago but they had no roots normally. The method shown on the sketch was used for the rooting.
1: An off-set for rooting
2. Any coarse materials to mimimize dried up of the off-set, I use coarse pumice sand.
3. Any rooting medium, I use 2~4 mm pumice sand.
An elderly cactus collecter told me:
It was possible to import cacti from USA long time ago but they had no roots normally. The method shown on the sketch was used for the rooting.
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