I have this pseudolithos migiurtinus seedling that’s about 4 months old and I want to graft it onto a hoodia gordonii. Just wondering what anyone’s experience is for these? I assume it would be exactly like grafting pere but I can’t find much info online and I’ve never grafted stapelia so just trying to gather some info.
by Naive_Chemistry6090
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No help to offer but I’m real curious about how this works out for you.
Just FYI, cigarettes can be a source of viruses to plants.
Two reasons.
1) tobacco is very susceptible to plant viruses, even those that primarily infect other families will cross and infect tobacco.
2) Because lots and lots of tobacco plants are cut, dried, shredded and mixed together for making cigarettes, one cigarette has material from hundreds or thousands of plants, so there’s a higher probability that one is infected with a virus. It’s like being in a sports arena, rather than having one person come visit.
Back in my college days I infected an amaryllis with a mosaic virus even though there were no other plants around to infect it. Cigarettes are the only source I can think of, since I did occasionally smoke back then and didn’t know it was risky. I know it wasn’t infected before, and then it was.
My suggestion would be to just wash your hands after smoking and keep the cigs and butts out of soil. Especially if you’re grafting, since a wounded surface is susceptible, and every time you graft you’re exposing the scion to the rootstock and vice versa. Some plant viruses are asymptotic or have very vague symptoms in one species but are very damaging in another, and they are incurable (the only way to clean a plant of viruses outside a laboratory is to let it go to seed and plant those, since they are usually protected).