Grafting to Selenicereus

[Arzberger]

Hi all,

here I want to show some grafts to Selenicereus. This is a very good root for graftig seedlings. You can graft small seedlings from a few milimeters on.

Here some pictures:


Mammillarias and Echinomastus, 18 months old


Weingartias, 18 months


Discocactus horstii, 11 months

Best regards
Alex

[Lewis_cacti]

wow, thanks for sharing.
You are quite the grower.
i had never heard of Selenicereus for use as a grafting stock, very interesting. and it looks like a very successful one too. but i see stakes are needed when the scions become top-heavy.

[Arzberger]

Hi Lewis,

under my conditions, Selenicereus is one of the best root stocks. It gives me a taking rate of over 95% and an accelerated growing quite as Pereskiopsis.
As Selenic. doesn't get hard or woody at its base, you can use it over and over (unlike Peresk.). Because of this fact, some bigger graftigs has to be supported by stakes, but this is not really a problem since I'm making all the newer graftigs onto lower root stocks (5-10 cmts), getting the same growing results. Also, you can grow much thicker Selenis, keeping the mother plants more sunny.

Here an example of this method:


Best regards
Alex

[peterb]

Hi Alex- I'd appreciate a few photos of the Echinomastus you have grafted. I couldn't make them out in the photo you posted. If you have any pictures of just Echinomastus, I'd appreciate it, thanks.

peterb

[hayu]

Cool pics. I need to try that some day.

[tvaughan]

Very much looking forward to your future posts on this board.

[Arzberger]

Hi Peter,
you can see it just in the center of the image, it is E. macdowellii.
Here is another pic, I will try to take some more of this species to post it.


Regards
Alex

[Arzberger]

Here is a panorama view of my graftings, most are grafted to Selenicereus.



Best regards
Alex

[ihc6480]

I'm completed amazed at the number of grafts you have Looks like a fulltime job to me

[Tony]

Wow!

[Lewis_cacti]

wow that is really amazing. looks like a nursery.
must try grafting onto Selenicereus. what species is it?

[Arzberger]

Hi Lewis,

you can use any species of Selenicereus, but it is more practical tu use the less spiny ones, like S. pteranthus or macdonaldiae. I use S. grandiflorus too, with the same results.
The only backdraw is, that Selenicereus doesn't tolerate very low temperatures (below 5ºC). If you got a warm place for it, it grows like weeds!

Regards
Alex

[CactusPlaza]

Hello Alex,

I also graft on Selenicereus grandiflorus and others with succes.

I want to try and graft 3 week old seedlings onto freshly made Selenicereus cuttings, before the cuttings are rooted. Is this possible? Do you have experience with this method?

kind regards,
Allard

[cantharis]

Hi Lewis,

you can use any species of Selenicereus, but it is more practical tu use the less spiny ones, like S. pteranthus or macdonaldiae. I use S. grandiflorus too, with the same results.
The only backdraw is, that Selenicereus doesn't tolerate very low temperatures (below 5ºC). If you got a warm place for it, it grows like weeds!

Regards
Alex

I second that - had a long section of it growing up my garden shed.

[Arjen]

wow, I knew you had a big place to grow your cacti but the picture of all the grafts really shows it better, that place is huge!
very beautiful grafts too!

I've only recently begun grafting on selenicereus so I don't know much about results yet, yours look very promising