I’ve had plenty of success grafting Trichs, but when ever I try to graft a long it fails. I’ve tried pere, pachanoi, blue myrtillo as stock. What am I missing?
This one got super fat after grafting then rotted and got ugly
Why does everything look so filthy? Did you sterilize your blade?
Lophoforeign
A few things I have found that help are, very sanitary conditions I use hydrogen peroxide on everything including the cutting site (not everyone will recommend that but Like a human surgery you want to clean the skin so you don’t push any pathogens in), use a gentle downward pressure with something like pantyhose cut into a strip put over top and hooked on the spines works quite well you want it to be quite breathable, and finally the biggest things I found are too give them humidity and darkness for the first 10 days I leave mine under a large cup mist it with neem oil water mix on the sides don’t get any on the cactus it won’t hurt it if you do but it’s more of a preventative from fungus while under humidity. Anyways I hope that helps! i’ve also had really good luck with opuntias those will pretty much except any graft in my experience
mmpdp
A few tips and a thought
1) gently clean lophs before cutting with hydrogen peroxide and a qtip then let them dry. They’re dirty little buggers since they live on dirt
2) sterilize your blades between cuts and burn off the excess alcohol on the blades. I just keep 4 blades handy to save time between cuts
3) lightly sulfur dust all exposed areas again.
Thought – that loph looks like it has a bunch of old mite damage. Give it time. They can shrink after grafting then pop back after a while
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Why does everything look so filthy? Did you sterilize your blade?
A few things I have found that help are, very sanitary conditions I use hydrogen peroxide on everything including the cutting site (not everyone will recommend that but Like a human surgery you want to clean the skin so you don’t push any pathogens in), use a gentle downward pressure with something like pantyhose cut into a strip put over top and hooked on the spines works quite well you want it to be quite breathable, and finally the biggest things I found are too give them humidity and darkness for the first 10 days I leave mine under a large cup mist it with neem oil water mix on the sides don’t get any on the cactus it won’t hurt it if you do but it’s more of a preventative from fungus while under humidity. Anyways I hope that helps! i’ve also had really good luck with opuntias those will pretty much except any graft in my experience
A few tips and a thought
1) gently clean lophs before cutting with hydrogen peroxide and a qtip then let them dry. They’re dirty little buggers since they live on dirt
2) sterilize your blades between cuts and burn off the excess alcohol on the blades. I just keep 4 blades handy to save time between cuts
3) lightly sulfur dust all exposed areas again.
Thought – that loph looks like it has a bunch of old mite damage. Give it time. They can shrink after grafting then pop back after a while