Woah, I’ve never considered grafting to opuntia this way. I always see it grafted along the edge. I see no reason why this wouldn’t work though. I’m looking forward to updates
Deathed_Potato
Did you carve in? How’d you apply pressure
p1hk4L
Very interesting approach and it seems like your scions may have taken. Can you please elaborate on your approach?
Virgmantx
Also curious about how you carved into the stock, what an interesting end result. I know a lot of people have a lot of opuntia laying around. Kudos on your graft!
Vadersfist_86
Super interesting! Would also like to know your method.
wpcodename
I just tried grafting with Opuntia similar to this on the flat of the Paddle, we’ll see if I have any luck.
karmicrelease
Cool! As long as the vascular ring lines up with the areole it should work just like any other graft I suppose
Professional-Break19
Opuntias are shitty grafting stock they will start making pups from every single areole instead of helping the scion grow and if you do end up cutting out all the areoles they’ll just pop new pup from elsewhere tried it in all kinds of different cactus and its just not worth it 🤷
HyphyMikey650
You are a trailblazer 🫡
CurtisMarauderZ
That… I want to be angry about it, but this really is brilliant. You get maximum sun exposure for the rootstock plus overwatering resistance. The only issue might be an excess of branching hormone from the opuntia, but once the scion gets big enough that should even out.
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Woah, I’ve never considered grafting to opuntia this way. I always see it grafted along the edge. I see no reason why this wouldn’t work though. I’m looking forward to updates
Did you carve in? How’d you apply pressure
Very interesting approach and it seems like your scions may have taken. Can you please elaborate on your approach?
Also curious about how you carved into the stock, what an interesting end result. I know a lot of people have a lot of opuntia laying around. Kudos on your graft!
Super interesting! Would also like to know your method.
I just tried grafting with Opuntia similar to this on the flat of the Paddle, we’ll see if I have any luck.
Cool! As long as the vascular ring lines up with the areole it should work just like any other graft I suppose
Opuntias are shitty grafting stock they will start making pups from every single areole instead of helping the scion grow and if you do end up cutting out all the areoles they’ll just pop new pup from elsewhere tried it in all kinds of different cactus and its just not worth it 🤷
You are a trailblazer 🫡
That… I want to be angry about it, but this really is brilliant. You get maximum sun exposure for the rootstock plus overwatering resistance. The only issue might be an excess of branching hormone from the opuntia, but once the scion gets big enough that should even out.