Community help needed! What do you think I should do with this Pereskiopsis, which I’ve just let grow by the side of a window, but which now has reached a certain threshold? Both serious and creative answers are welcome.
by Philophosy
Grafting Plants
35 Comments
Wooohaaaa, what a plant haha.
Cut them on winter time, will be better for all 🙂
Boof it!!!
I have a pot full of pere cuttings that grew. They’re under a shaded area and I rarely fertilize and water them. They maintain a certain height and I just cut and grow stock for grafting if I need some.
Maybe you can do that too
i remove very top part of my pere when it reaches certain height.
you can force it branch like a tree. it will more likely try to continue it’s legacy from a very top areola. so keep sniping those and keep those that grow from lower areolas
Micrograft a lophophora to it
Drill a hole right out the roof for it! 🫡
Leave it be as long as you can and try to let it flower. Dont know if its enough light but I’ve only seen one post with one flowering
I water prop mine. If I were you I’d get 10-20 cuts outta that guy to prop and stab graft a cactus seedling to the stump. My seedlings grow 3-4x faster when grafted to pere. Why not start an army!
Now cut it into 7” sections and have an army in a couple weeks!! They you’ll be grafting like crazy
(I have a ton of seedling 😉🤫)
Jesus 0o0
Well, my vote goes to cutting it down 3-5 inches and then grafting one or two types of Christmas/Easter/thanksgiving cactus to the top – This may be a silly looking option, but it’s also a 100% serious suggestion!
My happiest easter cacti are the ones on peres are
You could chop the younger growth up and use it for [fermented plant juice](https://ranchomastatal.com/blognewsletter/ikogv700ry853sbn3270fsodr1ykht) it could have some interesting compounds in it that benefit your other plants
Skylight, definitely go Skylight👍…or a second story addition. Thought this would be your cheapest option🤷♂️
Edit.. going through the floor would be cheaper, and may not need a permit!🤙
Start looping it arround that closet hanger
Cut it and sell it on r/cactiexchange
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I got two of them that go right to the top of my grow tent
Cut off about a foot of it from the top and propagate it.
Build a lil support basket, slap a TBM impale on the tip, and let a bunch of pups grow toward the ground like an upside down tomato plant planter
Just let it go, for science.
Climb to the top and look for green giants?
Bonsai it lol
Chop it into 2 in sections and line a 50 cell tray with them. Once they all root and start growing you have graft city at your fingertips.
Cut it into 6 inch sections, keeping track of which end is up. Repot the section with roots in a pot about 4x that size and center it. Stick the cuttings about 2″ into the soil around the rooted one. Pereskiopsis farm on the way.
Climb to the top and kill the giant
Those clamps you use to keeps wires on the wall with a screw and make a danger moulding
Put it in the corner and as it starts to grow higher you can controll the growth with large enough staples that don’t hurt the plant but hold it in place. From there you can create a winding maze of Pereskiopsis on you ceiling 🤙
How do you feel about a skylight? That boi tall as hell lmao
Chop it – use as grafting stock 🙏
Plant it in a strawberry topsy turvy pot and let it hand upsidedown.
Train yourself to pull it out of your mouth like a clown
Start bending around a pole and make it spiral. Which would shorten it and also make it pretty cool once you remove the pole down the line. You would have to tie it to the pole here and there to make it stay. That’s what I would do atleast. Train it to grow how you want kinda like a bonsai tree.
See how many random bits of it you can graft together to work on your grafting skills
Give a section of it to me
Can you try redirecting it down a bit more?
Any luck with it flowering?
If it grows any taller, you might get to meet the giant