The upside down San Pedro cactus!!!

[aattocchi]

This picture was taken on January 29th 2008. I am attempting to graft a E. pachanoi root stock upside down on top of another E.pachanoi root stock.

I first joined the scion(upside down plant) to the intended root stock 2 weeks prior to taking the picture. There is a small E. pachanoi in the background, that is not a new pup. At the time of this picture the union had bonded and was almost completly heald(notice the restrains are no longer holding the graft together).

I have since attempted to graft several Loph seedlings to some of the other cacti in the pot. The grafted cacti is still alive and showing no signs of new growth, except for the scion turning a darker green(good sign). Hopefully the Loph scions take to the other root stocks.

Has anyone attempted this before? Maybe I should post this in the Gardening forum, but I figured everyone here would get a kick out of it(at least the people interested in cacti, lol), and it seems to be doing fine. I also cleaned the roots free of dirt.

 

[petejonson]

What is grafting a cactus? how do you do it? i was thinking of picking up a few from BBB how are they and have you consumed any yet

 

[Kassidy]

mmmm that looks yummy. someday your gonna be able to take a big juicy bite out of that!

 

[aattocchi]

What is grafting a cactus? how do you do it? i was thinking of picking up a few from BBB how are they and have you consumed any yet

If you are going to buy cacti go to nomad.ecrater.com, Mathew has all high alkaloid content cacti. If BBB doesn't have what you order they will send you something kind of like it, I don't trust them anymore(don't like getting the wrong stuff 2 time, rip offs).

Nomad also has a huge selection of different types of Trich's.

 

[fdd2blk]

so what happens with it now that it has a head of roots?

 

[aattocchi]

Don't know, just an experiment. My goal is to speed up production, hopefully the scion grows new pups from each root site.

 

[fdd2blk]

Don't know, just an experiment. My goal is to speed up production, hopefully the scion grows new pups from each root site.

interesting. keep us up dated.

 

[aattocchi]

Sure will, I plan on taking some new pictures soon. This time I might let the Loph's sneak into the picture(oops, lol).