The graft looks good. Part of grafting is making sure you trim off pups of the rootstock to encourage it to focus its resources on the scion.
I’ve noticed as long as the seedling is not crispy dry the graft has a high probability of pulling through. Little seedlings have a very minuscule amount of water in them so if the graft truly failed the seedling would dry out very quick.
If it hasn’t dried out without a cover on it for an extended period of time it’s just a waiting game but it’s pretty much a sure thing that the union worked
Check out how dry this one got that a recently did. It was one of my worst grafts. This is what it looked like several weeks after the procedure. It’s dry as fuck but you’ll notice it’s still not completely dry.
After you graft on pereskiopsis (or other rootstocks, but especially pere), it will often try to throw out new shoots in order to send its energy somewhere other than the scion. Don’t let it. Snip new shoots (scratch them off at the stem, they are soft at this point) as soon as they appear. I recommend checking daily. It’s crucial for the union.
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Snip the pere shoot
The graft looks good. Part of grafting is making sure you trim off pups of the rootstock to encourage it to focus its resources on the scion.
I’ve noticed as long as the seedling is not crispy dry the graft has a high probability of pulling through. Little seedlings have a very minuscule amount of water in them so if the graft truly failed the seedling would dry out very quick.
If it hasn’t dried out without a cover on it for an extended period of time it’s just a waiting game but it’s pretty much a sure thing that the union worked
Check out how dry this one got that a recently did. It was one of my worst grafts. This is what it looked like several weeks after the procedure. It’s dry as fuck but you’ll notice it’s still not completely dry.
https://preview.redd.it/nft0jc2jtrde1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77cfe1f36c629176071b0c5b26ca08f49bc58664
After you graft on pereskiopsis (or other rootstocks, but especially pere), it will often try to throw out new shoots in order to send its energy somewhere other than the scion. Don’t let it. Snip new shoots (scratch them off at the stem, they are soft at this point) as soon as they appear. I recommend checking daily. It’s crucial for the union.