Aztekium ritteri

[sandi]

Flowered today, who said the summer is over.

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[DaveW]

That's a woolly Aztekium Sandi, do you just water from below to keep all that wool on it?

DaveW

[Herts Mike]

I never said it was over.

I just said it never started....

[sandi]

Dave, it is grafted on Myrtillocactus and its outside the whole summer so it was often watered by rain. But whe I watered I did water from bellow.

[DaveW]

It must be a woolly clone then.

DaveW

[Herts Mike]

Be brave Sandi.

Take it off the graft and root it.

It can be done....

[Diane]

Yes, but rather risky, Mike! Aztekiums have a woody core that is sometimes reluctant to throw out roots, they often dry up before they root. If it is a precious plant (and I bet it is!), I'd just progressively bury the stock. I've got a large multiheaded one that was grafted many years ago, and left it on the stock which is now buried.

I also have three 12 yr old seedlings on own roots which are very woolly!

[Herts Mike]

I know it's risky Diane but he who dares wins!

I degrafted a Uebelmannia and a Discocactus in spring. The Disco rooted up but the Uebelamannia dried up pretty quickly.

Growing plants on grafts seems like cheating somehow unless it is highly variegated.

I bought a Pseudolithos a couple of years ago grafted onto a Hoodia. The Hoodia rotted!