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Mary Jayne
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Grafting My Trichocereus : ]
#14417419 - 05/07/11 11:52 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I love cacti, and have become especially addicted to collecting trichocereus. Not too long ago, I found 4 10" San Pedro pups that were bunched in two couples for $30 total. I have two 25+ year old Backberg San Pedros, but I was very determined to add these to the garden because they were defiantly the non-PC, authentic Trichocereus Pachanoi. They were practically twice the diameter of the fattest Backberg at their 10" age and took on slightly bigger spikes and a brighter hue. As a test for potency, I cut down one set of the seedlings down leaving me with 2" cacti stumps to recover and 16"+ of especially fat, San Pedro. Lets just say it did very little. Less of a mindfuck and overall psychedelia than a backberg lengthwise ; the hallucinations were more delirious than psychedelic (I kept seeing giant spiders climbing on my window while standing outside to smoke a bowl)and I felt very sedated instead of hyper like I was on my last two cacti experiences (made with backberg).
Anyways, from Ebay, I just bought a 10" Peruvian Torch x Bridgesii Hybrid. It looks like a typical San Pedro, except it has longer thorns & variation, is a bit fatter and a lot darker green/blue. The core is about the size of my Pedro stump! Since the stumps are well developed in their pot root-wise, and its a fast growing variety I needed some input. It seems like a good idea to cut my current hybrid cutting in half and take a bit off of the bottom half then graft them onto the San Pedro stumps. Any suggestions? I'll post pictures tomorrow... all help would be appreciated! I have never grafted before but I'm very aware how it works. I especially don't want to loose my only cutting of this beautiful (and incredibly potent) variety.
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wanderingmarlin


Registered: 04/30/11
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Re: Grafting My Trichocereus : ] [Re: Mary Jayne]
#14514992 - 05/26/11 12:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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do a search on this forum for areole grafting. It's a bit harder than a standard graft but you won't have to chop the cutting in half. I think the safest route would be to let the cutting root and wait for it to put out a pup, then graft the pup. In my experience peruvianus x bridgesii hybrids (at least the two I have) branch fairly readily. Searching for cytokinin turns up a great thread on inducing pupping, it's definitely worth looking into.
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AgingHippy
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just make sure to bevel the edges because when it dries and shrinks the skin stays the same size so the vascular rings will lose contact with each other.
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