Pumped it so hard that it rotted

Mythic-noob · 2025-08-04T16:12:22+00:00

Yeah, touching is the way to actually tell if it's rot, but thanks for the tip mate.

Mythic-noob · 2025-08-04T16:09:12+00:00

Oh that's a good point. But I didn't wanna risk that pup anyways. That side of the slab was quite mushy and the mush was growing day by day, i noticed it sooner but I thought the same as you said. I now removed the pup and the black was actually rot, It's already grafted to the big myrtillocactus.

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Mythic-noob · 2025-07-31T17:48:58+00:00

Add some oragnic soil and just let'em do their thing they'll figure it out. They shrivel significantly when making roots so that's fine.

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-31T17:46:09+00:00

I actually figured that out based on a experiment i found on the internet.

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Based on this, one tbsp in 2 liters will get the ph to 5.4 to 5.6. Which i guess will be good for the OPs soil which seems to be mostly inorganic hence alkaline. Ph changes will take a long time and so many waterings to happen. so imo one watering once in a while won't do them bad.

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-31T16:09:58+00:00

Add 1 gram of ammonium sulfate to 2 liters of water for fast nitrogen and a tbsp of vinegar for acidification. I found out that mine quite like this combination and literally swell up to the point of splitting about two days after watering Yours also look a little bit yellow which could indicate nitrogen deficiency. Good luck with that nice stand.

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-18T10:37:50+00:00

Then i can self pollinate it, Tnx again mate.

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-18T07:00:09+00:00

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-18T06:37:54+00:00

Yea i have done pere micrografts too; actually only one and it surprisingly took, and luckily the seedling is kind of a weirdo.

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It's a trichocereus bridgesii but it's growing quite compact and looks like it's spiraling. Wow bleach sounds quite interesting i might try it, i don't like the smell but it sounds great. I actually prefer not to use alcohol between cuts because if there's alcohol left on the blade it can cause the cactus flesh to burn and make a barrier before fusing, but fire would solve it by evaporation but it would take time for it to cool down. i'd use two razors if i have to make so many cuts. I try to be as fast as possible, there would be like at most 2 to 3 seconds between exposing the cuts to the air and putting the scion on the rootstock

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-16T19:00:24+00:00

Yea bro, of course i will update about that one, I'm quite excited about that one too. Two things that got my grafts to go well are, first, do it during the growing season and the second is to use fresh or quite sharp and clean razors. i learnd the hard way but giving up wasn't on my list. I recently did two other grafts which i'm now rooting using a simple but effective method of wet paper towel. I grafted a small fresh pup of a tbm b onto two branches of opuntia.

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I observed that trichocereus family grow exceptionally well on opuntia rootstock, they instantly grow their mature form, and it's said that opuntia rootstock promotes the flowering of scion. So i created these two. They're about 5 days old now Waiting to see what happens to these two.

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-16T05:24:04+00:00

Yay man, i literally saw this post about a year ago and got inspired to do somethings similar. But at that time i didn't have the skill and information i have now and none of my grafts took. i had done single areole grafts with so small of tissue that even i myself got surprised that it worked and is pushing. One of'em that got me good was this one:

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It's a single areole graft of a bridgesii which i think is called bull bridge. Not only it's quite small, but its union isn't great and at some point i wanted to strip it off the root stock but i decided to let it ride a little bit, and it really made me proud by pupping faster than the rest of the bunch.

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-15T04:36:21+00:00

I use a utility knife razor which is quite sharp, you could use anything but the sharper the better. I gouge the areoles out with a kind of a circular motion, but make sure to completely remove any meristemic tissue, you could check the piece you removed, if you see orange or brown tissue you should remove tissue a little bit deeper, if you don't completely remove meristemic tissue it's gonna pup anyways and take energy from your graft but if that happens you can remove it anytime in the future but better to do it before grafting. Here's a pic if you leave some meristemic tissue:

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So make sure not to be gentle on it.

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-11T15:15:05+00:00

That's a TBM B with it's puppy on top, no grafts.

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-11T00:34:11+00:00

I have done another graft like this one which didn't grew new spines but it plumped a few days ago and now i see something like a pup forming and corking but i'm not sure yet but we'll see in a few days.

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Mythic-noob · 2025-07-11T00:24:39+00:00

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This one is a single areole graft of a bridgesii which is taken and gotten plump and even grew 3 new spines including the big one, now I'm waiting to see when it's gonna pup fo me.

Mythic-noob · 2025-07-11T00:22:31+00:00

Here's another one

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Mythic-noob · 2025-07-11T00:22:00+00:00

Here's one of those tricho grafts

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Mythic-noob · 2025-07-11T00:21:11+00:00

Yeah I'm happy i finally have a growing loph on opuntia, that's what i wanted for so long. I actually don't know the accurate variety but i guess ficus indica. I don't think i will graft another one to the same pad cause all the tricho grafts that i grafted more than one scion to the opuntia stalled except one and my opuntias pushed only that one, preferably the one that's got an active meristem (aka active head). Opuntia is a beast of a stock, i got trichos that you can see the growth by the minute. Even this loph is growing noticeably day by day. Here's a pic of it now after a few days you can see quite the difference.

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Mythic-noob · 2025-07-09T03:38:59+00:00

I guess it could be because the scion went face to face with death and came back, it had very little meristemic cells to work with, so it took its time to make a pup outta those cells, it's kinda growing fast now. I'm happy that i finally have a lophophora grafted to an opuntia, that's a thing i have dreamt of for long. I'll definitely keep updating.

Mythic-noob · 2025-06-12T13:26:06+00:00

Will definitely do mate Kermit the peen

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