Hello friends! What is the best strategy for taking a cutting? This is KR004 on PC that was my first cactus and is now 50 inch plus so was planning to take a cutting for grafting/mass propagation.
Should I leave a reasonable amount of material above the original graft on the bottom before cutting at an angle for more surface area and pups?
Was planing to take some pucks from the middle (letting them dry for a week or so before cutting them down to slabs and grafting to root stock) and rooting a top section/tip.
Thanks for any advice about cutting or grafting!
by Pretty_Care4518
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Awesome plant, did you score that from Huan before they stopped importing cuttings?
The minimum you need to leave is one or two good areoles and it will pup from those. There’s not much benefit to leaving a lot on the rootstock other than it’s more surface area to photosynthesize and grow the pups faster. Generally they only throw out a few pups from the top of the cut. The cut scion can then be rooted in its own pot or chopped up and grafted to many other rootstocks. It all depends on your goals.
Don’t let them dry if you’re gonna graft pucks they do better juicy. Iet one end callous then cut and graft the fresh end