1st time peyote grafting

So organised this beaut about a year ago and it looked like this


repotted it once or twice and placed it in a nice shady area once I started noticing growth. Had no idea how amazing cactus grafts are as this thing just went wild during the summer season! after roughly 4 or so months of having the cactus It began giving off pups.


This is what it looks like now after having it for just 1 year!! best investment ive made in along time


So anyone here with experience grafting cactus? Been thinking that once they get big enough id like to graft one pup onto another pedro or peruvian. Shouldnt take too much longer with the rate this thing is growing! Would grafting the peyote to a peruvian be better then grafting it to a pedro? Ive read that peruvians have higher mescaline contents. Would this make a difference for a graft?

Anyone managed to cut a pup of thier graft before without destroying your original graft?
Any links to this kind of information is much appreciate!!

Id see if you could root some off shoots,seems easier and less stress on the cactus...

IME with any type of grafting, the scion will never take any characteristics of the rootstock, except for speeded growth and disease resistance in the roots. It's how you can get exact copies of one thing or another, and those exact copies don't tend to change over time. It's also how you can keep a branch of one variety grafted to another while keeping both colors growing. My mother has a white dogwood tree with half of it being pink and the other half being white. The pink will always stay pink, no matter how long it is attached to the white tree.

I've no experience grafting cacti, but I would imagine that it won't matter how much mescaline the rootstock you use produces if you're only intending to grow/harvest the Peyote buttons on top. The peyote will produce what the peyote is genetically designed to produce regardless of what it grows on top of.

I'd imagine that with an exacto knife and sanitary practices, you could very easily carve out the baby pods without destroying the original. I wouldn't cut every pod around the base of the original, but maybe every other one and let the wounds heal over before going for the rest. If you're at all worried, start with one, and see what happens rather than going balls to the walls on your first attempt.

Please report back if you try anything out and/or have success!

Cool i guess il just use a normal pedro then

its pretty much winter here where i stay so im abit worried about rot and the fact that the cacti dont really grow during winter... So im thinking I will rather make cuttings and attempt to graft when its abit warmer and dryer in september when its spring again. By then they should be abit bigger aswell.

Il be sure to make a thread that shows how i go about it.

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i bought about 50 seeds about 2 months ago. going to be starting them soon and perhaps will be tissue culturing them to multiply.

oxanaca said:

i bought about 50 seeds about 2 months ago. going to be starting them soon and perhaps will be tissue culturing them to multiply.

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nice my friends had his for about 3 years now and they almost 3cm wide. gotta wait till they at least 5cm wide b4 one can graft ive heard. What's tissue culturing never heard of it?

kyle109 said:

nice my friends had his for about 3 years now and they almost 3cm wide. gotta wait till they at least 5cm wide b4 one can graft ive heard. What's tissue culturing never heard of it?

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