Yes. Go at it slowly in a circular motion with a scalpel or exacto knife. Pretend like you’re trying to sharpen the tip of pere for a stab graft. Once you have a hole the pere will peel away from the inside of the loph. Some pere skin might stay behind but the bulk will be gone and now less likely to rot. I usually pack the craters left from pere and hylo with silver/rooting powder mix.
Edit: once pere stem is removed you might need to get in there with tweezers and pull away what ever is left. It should peel away rather easily. Or at least it has in my case. I’ve removed quite a few pere stems.
EmeraldDragon-85
I would just leave it.. cut it flush and leave the thing it’s not going to hurt it
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Can you twist it out?
Do you need to remove it?
Graft the lower buttons then cut above it
Yes. Go at it slowly in a circular motion with a scalpel or exacto knife. Pretend like you’re trying to sharpen the tip of pere for a stab graft. Once you have a hole the pere will peel away from the inside of the loph. Some pere skin might stay behind but the bulk will be gone and now less likely to rot. I usually pack the craters left from pere and hylo with silver/rooting powder mix.
Edit: once pere stem is removed you might need to get in there with tweezers and pull away what ever is left. It should peel away rather easily. Or at least it has in my case. I’ve removed quite a few pere stems.
I would just leave it.. cut it flush and leave the thing it’s not going to hurt it
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