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Cactus Cultivars => Specialist cultivation techniques => Topic started by: Carlo & Daniele on Thursday, 19 July 2012 - 18:27:19

Title: cloning asterias by cutting in two parts
Post by: Carlo & Daniele on Thursday, 19 July 2012 - 18:27:19
this is the lower part, it takes some months without produucing any offsets from the areoles, but now there are two from the middle.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Dzw_zhZa8Ps/UAgxvsTChYI/AAAAAAAAGiw/EDgE-MVw6Ag/s554/190720121046.jpg)
Title: Re: cloning asterias by cutting in two parts
Post by: Carlo & Daniele on Friday, 17 August 2012 - 14:28:02
update:

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dDS2dPsjVjg/UC43Ql7OOzI/AAAAAAAAGno/FzpmHlhZa0A/s509/170820121106.jpg)
Title: Re: cloning asterias by cutting in two parts
Post by: fanecchissimo on Friday, 17 August 2012 - 16:53:19
nice result! any hormones?
Title: Re: cloning asterias by cutting in two parts
Post by: Carlo & Daniele on Friday, 17 August 2012 - 17:44:51
no...only time...you know we prefer natural methods...but it took some while, about 4 months
Title: Re: cloning asterias by cutting in two parts
Post by: fanecchissimo on Saturday, 18 August 2012 - 09:35:26
long period but good result
;D
Title: Re: cloning asterias by cutting in two parts
Post by: AstrophytumCultivars.com on Monday, 20 August 2012 - 13:16:40
Same happened to me on A. niveum. I will post photo when I came back from work :)
Title: Re: cloning asterias by cutting in two parts
Post by: Lucian on Sunday, 25 November 2012 - 17:26:48
Did you graft the upper side? On what? How did it work?
Title: Re: cloning asterias by cutting in two parts
Post by: Carlo & Daniele on Sunday, 25 November 2012 - 20:42:26
well it's quite risky when the plant is big and you need a large stock.
this is the upper part, grafted on myrtillo:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-4w0XP4B5Sw0/T70OA7VhoeI/AAAAAAAAGJ0/NDtigKkqW-w/s509/23052012865.jpg)

and this is an update of the lower part:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U7r6KjEIuFs/ULJ0Cq8-a1I/AAAAAAAAH5s/4PWTkkeCTk8/s553/221120121500.jpg)
Title: Re: cloning asterias by cutting in two parts
Post by: Lucian on Sunday, 25 November 2012 - 20:47:44
Nice job, the upper par doesn't look like it was cut from another plant. This is a good surgeon's work. Congratulations!
Title: Re: cloning asterias by cutting in two parts
Post by: AstrophytumCultivars.com on Saturday, 09 February 2013 - 18:47:44
Quote from: ToKra on Monday, 20 August 2012 - 13:16:40
Same happened to me on A. niveum. I will post photo when I came back from work :)

Mentioned A.niveum
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-coBTgSx0foQ/URaLQrIvO4I/AAAAAAAAE44/JReQzATg4jk/s512/e_IMAG0276.jpg)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xGMQx-PJXrI/URaLQtP-FZI/AAAAAAAAE48/b6SgvpI0Lgg/s500/e_IMAG0277.jpg)