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Peres. cuttings

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Hi all, I would like some advice on how to take and root Peres cuttings please. Thanks
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Hot and humid, Eric! Don't treat them like cacti, plant in normal potting mix, keep moist, in a propagator, and they'll root very quickly.
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Thanks Diane, so there would be no need to allow cutting to dry before inserting into pot ? Cheers
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No need to dry them, Eric, just stick them in and keep moist - dead easy!
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Thanks for that Diane. Will do. Cheers
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Basically as Diane says don't treat Pereskia stocks like cacti at first but more like tropical plants to get them rooted and growing fast. As with all grafting stocks you need softer new growth to graft on, not harder old growth from slowly grown stocks. After grafts on them have taken you then have to treat them more as you would the scion on any other grafting stock.
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Thanks Dave, and that would be treatment as a normal cacti I presume ? Thanks. ps, do grafted plants require any special treatment then. Cheers
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The only thing with grafted plants is you have to provide conditions suitable for both species, that of the scion and stock. You often get grafts from the Continent on tender stocks like Myrtillocactus, even though the scions may be fairly hardy. In that case you have to maintain minimum temperatures to suit the Myrtillocactus or the stock will die.
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Can one graft seedlings onto Pereskia? It is normally Pereskiopsis that is used for this purpose?
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Presumably you could use both Terry. That family is usually used for seedling grafts anyway since they are not really suitable for permanent stocks. When the scion is large enough it is usually cut off and re-grafted onto something like a Trichocereus or Harrisia jusbertii and the stump left on the Pereskiopsis used to produce more offsets for propagation.

See:-

https://cactiguide.com/article/?article=article7.php

As shown in this video you can graft both halves of the seedling, since the upside down graft with the root on will still produce offsets that can then be grafted right way up on another Pereskiopsis or other stock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1C30GkLcbU
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