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Any Cacti Cultivators?

JungleGhost said:
Can u graft a loph to san pedro? Oh wait thts the pic right?
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It is indeed. It's a great use for otherwise weak or inactive PC 'pachanot' clones, and the graft has grown about ten times faster than the bits I left on the original rootstock, as well as pupping like crazy - so instead of one small button I now have about seventeen, including three pups on the original rootstock, with another on the way.

This makes it a 7.5:1 gearing ratio, if not better šŸ˜‚ That said, I did manage to encourage pupping on a couple of other loph specimens still on their own roots by feeding with carefully applied, small amounts of undiluted urine during spells of hot weather.

Be warned, by my own reckoning I'm practically clueless about loph cultivation and credit for all the success goes firmly with the angels here. Still, it has been encouraging enough that I'll be regrafting some of the pups from the original graft (they're already bigger than it was when first cut) and stepping up my clone-cutting from the PC specimens, which incidentally count as the oldest specimens in my present-day collection, having been with me for over 27 years now, including riding out a period of homelessness with me somehow.

I hope that you find this inspiring, and that you can get your collection up and running as soon as practicable!
 
Rather than spending many years growing from seed i recomend you look for some 12inch or bigger cuts , strong named clones , perferably tip cuts .. but mid cuts would work .


you will soon be getting 12 to 24 in growth........ per year plus pups , TBM CLONE B ,,good fun looks cool /cool vibe . TBMC is crazy looking
good luck

lops its decades waiting for growth for a very small amount .
 
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Seeds are not as slow as you might think if you utilize grafting which although the data is small there is at least one test that says alkaloid production is still pretty good. I've got like 50 adultish Pedros plus a few random cacti plus at least a hundred seedlings indoors. Gardening is a bit of an obsession autistic interest for me though. lol I'm also growing some Pedros hydroponically which also super charges their growth. I find growing hydro more fun and actually simpler than soil.
 
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