Ariocarpus grafting

can anyone give me tips on grafting young Ariocarpus seedlings to pereskopsis?

its supposed to be pretty easy but I'm having no luck so far.
are there any tricks I should know?

cheers

this is interesting too...

http://www.living-rocks.com/pereskiopsis.htm

All i know about grafting is, you have to line the rings up, and make sure its very sappy.

Not much help am i

Check out this link this guy is good at it. I will be using this when I attempt and I think Lewis may have done it this way

http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6799

Grafting seedlings to Pereskiopsis I would imagine that Ario would be the same, I am going to try some seedling grafting this spring...

Thanks San Rainbow & betty - thats a good write up. I have pretty good results with Lophophora and Trichocereus using the same method as in the links.

I was just wondering if arios were any different? and the finer details - for example - how old are the seedlings, keep in 79 % humidity for ...xx days at 14.6 degrees C etc.

cheers

I have had really good sucess rates with Fissuratus, Kotsch and retusus. I grafted 2 of each in april and all were sucessful. I lost one of the retusus to orange rot but the others are growing strong.

I have a few little tips. I found arios easier to graft if they are a little older. I usually graft seedlings but I found the arios easier if they were 4ish weeks old. No pressure just a little sap from a cut pere leave. Humidity needs to be constant and not above 80% for a period of 14+ days.

Hey WT at what point do your fail ? How long can you sucessfully keep them alive ? I may have a tip or 2 for ya.

HN

Hmm..... Mine have failed when transferred to the growing area. - After about 10 days in humidity and low light at ambient temp. I think next time I should give them longer in humidity (14 +) and possibly leave them until a bit older before grafting - all were young seedlings of about 2 weeks.

Cheers

Yeah well you almost have it sorted. I do 2 things to ensure their survival. You need to do what I think of as a mini hardening off. I lower the humidity in the grafted plants environment by 20% for a few days before I take them out. You can achieve this in a variety of ways it all depends on how your set up works.

Also some plants will begin to fatten up and look really full/turgid once this happens they are ready to be moved. Not all plants will do this and these are the onces I mini harden.

My set up is pretty ghetto but it works so I'm sticking with it