Cactus Plant Propagation

[00:00:00]How to propagate cactus. In the last video we talked about how to plant cactus and previously I've shown how to take cactus cuttings along with grafting some cacti with you. So today we're going to take a tour and see a bunch of new different stuff that I haven't shown before. So if you follow along you'll be really interested. It's always cool to see different new stuff.

[00:00:25]And if you don't follow along hop on and check out some of the previous videos of growing cacti from seed and all of the different videos I try to show tours of different areas of my property. So in watching this one you won't be bored with seeing areas that you've previously seen. It should be all new exciting stuff. Let's hop right into this. I've got a cool melty four winds cutting of Trichocereus bridgesii clone.

[00:00:56]This is a type of San Pedro cactus.

[00:00:59]Super spicy trippy one.

[00:01:02]This is El Serpiente.

[00:01:05]And if I was to plant this individual cutting I would get to grow one cactus.

[00:01:12]And if I chopped it into pieces I could graft all of them and kind of mass propagate and maybe get 10 grafts out of this one individual piece and then I could grow those and have them pop and then hopefully cut those 10 into 10 more each and have 100.

[00:01:33]So let's check out propagating cacti.

[00:01:36]Behind me here I've got a huge Trichocereus bridgesii um mother plant. We'll get to see a lot of different ones of those. And this was a cool area that I showed last week of propagating this area. Um let me try to move this cactus cutting and camera.

[00:02:03]So, these were a lot of different cuttings that I had planted and rooted, and I talked about the size that I planted them at. You can see I've got a bunch of cuttings waiting to get planted here, and I cut the tops off of all of these, and I was able to replant those tops along with um selling some of them on my shop. And on the tip of each one of these I've made a graft. So, here we're looking at a Bruce's Dragon, and I'm going to take this El Serpiente and set it down safely. And we can see the Bruce's Dragon tip was grafted, and then the sides were cut up into slabs.

[00:02:49]So, each one of these slabs will pop out of the areoles, the spikes here, and we can see this slab graft has three different pups coming out of it. So, they're doing really good and healthy, and this tip of this Bruce's Dragon is doing awesome. And let's get an up-close look here at how these pups come out.

[00:03:15]So, we can see on this one here, see it's physically splitting the skin behind those spines. And we can see on this one here, it is just peeking out.

[00:03:28]You can see it's bulging and popping that new pup out. This one here is doing great.

[00:03:37]It's got a little ficus ball falling on it. And we can see I've left all these leaves and leaf litter growing laying beneath them, and it helps grow fungi and beneficial bacteria. And above them here is a bunch of really big trees and those provide a great amount of afternoon shade. So, all of these grafts are getting full morning sun and then they're getting afternoon shade. So, I'm just stoked to show these off because on the last video, I had shown how I was going to graft these and the age and size and I did get some questions and I always try to answer the questions. A few people have asked how small of cuttings can you take? You can take super small cuttings, but this is a really good size here and I sell this size on my shop for pretty cheap, you know, less than 10 bucks or whatever.

[00:04:35]And this would go great in maybe a 6-in pot and would grow right away.

[00:04:43]You can see some of these pups that are just pouring out of those.

[00:04:48]All right, cool. So, I just wanted to show off what happened with this area and how it has progressed and how quickly that those grafts can be done.

[00:04:58]So, I did those grafts about 1 month ago.

[00:05:01]And we're going to head up and see a lot new areas and some different stuff. Like I said, I've got a row of cuttings here and then a bunch more cuttings down there and those are layered with cardboard in between them and they're in the shade. They're underneath This is a uh I think a cherimoya tree.

[00:05:24]And then I've got a nice row that's coming in. I had just planted those after the last video and um oh, and we had a free giveaway on the last video for some cool suggestions and the winner was Thongwater.

[00:05:42]They kind of had the most votes and someone that I thought was really cool, David Attenborough. So, I just asked for suggestions on some cool YouTube channels to watch and things like that.

[00:05:52]David Attenborough is such a classic. We all can think of his voice as soon as we hear his name. These unique species of this monstrous penis cactus that has grown for years and thrived in this spot.

[00:06:12]>> [laughter] >> So, definitely a cool one to watch. I I love his one on cactus is really really neat.

[00:06:20]So, thank you Thongwater and you are the winner. So, I will send you a prize and at the end of this video, I'll kind of announce how you can win a free cacti, too.

[00:06:33]So, here's a cool way to propagate things is to the left here are cuttings taken off of this mother plant.

[00:06:44]And I've actually rooted these cuttings into pots and I've got previous videos on how you can plant and root your TBM cactus in pots. And after they were rooted, they've been planted into the ground here. And then I do slowly prune them.

[00:07:02]And that is just literally taking cuttings off of them so that I can sell the cuttings or so that I can plant new cuttings. You can see these are really a great size.

[00:07:16]These have done really well. They can be planted into the ground much smaller and much younger than those.

[00:07:23]Those have probably been growing there for, I don't know, maybe a year or so.

[00:07:28]Whereas these huge barrel cactuses, they've been there for jeez, maybe 40 years. They're old. And the one on the left is much younger.

[00:07:40]So, I've planted that at a age.

[00:07:43]This is the driveway coming in my home.

[00:07:45]So, and my name is Dave and we're at my home. I run a cactus and succulent nursery, kind of a cacti farm around here. And this is Kawuia.

[00:07:58]I really love this stand, old, huge stand. And I sell seeds off of this on my website. I've got some seed pods growing on it right now. I'm crossing We'll get a peek. Uh some Zelly, which is a really colorful San Pedro cactus flower uh colorful flower.

[00:08:18]You can see that big fat seed pod. It's been pollinated by Zelly there and uh couple others. Some younger flowers. This is a huge old stand.

[00:08:32]Here's some cool San Pedro cactus crests.

[00:08:39]And like I said, I just love those uh Trichocereus bridgesii, the TBM. And so, those are short form.

[00:08:47]See a couple more of them here.

[00:08:50]And the common name is penis cactus and and those can be propagated by cuttings.

[00:08:57]So, we can take individual or several nodes off of these and uh simply plant them or they can be grafted. I do have some grafts. And what's cool about the grafts is you can take one really small pup or one small immature segment, and when you graft that, it will make it grow really quickly.

[00:09:20]Here's a San Pedro look-alike.

[00:09:23]That's the Myrtillo cactus. And a lot of people can mistake uh these crested Myrtillo cactus for a crested uh TBM.

[00:09:35]And we can look at some crested TVMs along with this big old crest.

[00:09:42]And this is a uh cactus look-alike. So, this isn't really a cactus at all, even though it has these spines.

[00:09:50]It's a euphorbia.

[00:09:53]And so, a euphorbia isn't technically a cactus at all. It gets a white milky sap. We can see it does grow these small leaves. And if I was to pull one of these leaves off, you can see how it starts pouring out that white milky sap.

[00:10:11]Really a cool crested guy. And so, if I wanted to propagate this, I really could cut this entire thing into a bunch of different grafts.

[00:10:23]Um and I could uh graft those onto other euphorbias, but I could not graft them onto other cacti. And I could also just take cuttings. So, I could just cut um a piece off like this or a piece off like this and plant those. Sometimes this does put out um pieces that don't have crests on them. And when it does that, I cut them off. There's a couple spots down below you can see. So, when it puts out regular growth, I try to cut it off and and really keep that cool crested look.

[00:10:58]Crested euphorbia.

[00:11:06]Beautiful morning here.

[00:11:09]So, we're in July. It's going to be 80-something today for me. And um the weather's just really nice this morning. It's still pretty early. Here's a variegated San Pedro cactus. So, that could be something that I take cuttings off of um or uh cut pieces off for grafts. And like see this big green column, I could cut and remove that altogether um to give more energy to the yellow, the cool yellow part. And we're standing next to my home here, so check out some of the cacti I have in front of my house. I love the uh branching shape of this Cacto Hybrid though. I have some cuttings of that on my shop, and then these big fuzzballs are all flowers that are going to pour out. It's really a profuse bloomer, and it uh gets really big and thick, like 6-in monster.

[00:12:12]And here are some spiral cacti, and we can see um so I had a single column growing. This was actually grown from seed, and then um when I cut it, it put out two new pups, and then uh and then I cut those two pups, and those have pup.

[00:12:29]So I've further propagated them for myself and for the shop.

[00:12:36]These are all growing happy. We can see I'm leaving that leaf litter as a mulch down there.

[00:12:43]And the Myrtillocactus down there is thriving.

[00:12:52]And over here we've got some big dry old aloes, some Aloe bainesii, and some tree aloes. I usually use these just for fertilizers.

[00:13:08]And there's a uh Cephalocereus senilis.

[00:13:11]That's an endangered species.

[00:13:15]Here's kind of a cool garden bed where I'm planting some fuzzy guys around a larger TBM stand.

[00:13:27]And my cereus cactus apple in full bloom there.

[00:13:32]And those need to be pollinated, so they won't get that cactus apple fruit unless they're pollinated by a a different type of cereus, which the spiral can propagate and pollinate them.

[00:13:47]Here's a old long form TBM.

[00:13:50]I've got some cool flowering stuff at the base of it and it's kind of outgrowing itself, so I'll probably replant some of those.

[00:14:00]And we're underneath a mulberry tree here.

[00:14:05]Delicious fruit. The birds go nuts for the mulberry.

[00:14:10]I'll head down my stairs. I made these stairs, put a couple handprints in.

[00:14:15]Got to have fun with it.

[00:14:19]And so on the last video I showed how I plant cacti and I gave gave a great example of planting them. On these pots, I really prefer these pots cuz they're very round.

[00:14:34]I'm sorry, they're very shallow. So rather than just being tall, they're short and so they're pretty wide. And which makes them top heavy. I'm sorry, which >> [laughter] >> makes it so they're not top heavy. So these won't easily tip over. So they can go all the way without falling over. They just want to go right back to that.

[00:14:59]We can see those are getting totally rooted in and happy.

[00:15:03]So these are all different cacti cuttings.

[00:15:07]Here's a good midsection cutting.

[00:15:10]So I was able to cut one long column and plant the tip. And then these three midsection cuttings I put out a nice pup. So, that's a good way to propagate um say you have uh nice long tall cutting like that Trichocereus spachianus.

[00:15:31]Uh you'd be able to cut that into four pieces um and plant the uh middle cut sections, not just the tip.

[00:15:42]And some tips like this one here terminate. That one's totally terminated, and then there it's just going to pup from the top there.

[00:15:53]There's a good midsection. You got a couple popcorns on those. And then here we can see an example I had put a leaf over this cuz it was getting sunburnt.

[00:16:03]And that leaf just desiccated, and uh there's an example of a cacti that got really sunburnt and really hurt on its left side, but it scarred over and it's healed. So, um and then here's a an example of a cacti that got sunburn on its tip, and it's grown through it.

[00:16:24]So, I know there's a lot of people out there that are like, "Ah, I sunburnt my cacti. What do I do?" This one got totally sunburnt, and that it's grown through the leaf that was on it.

[00:16:35]And there's another good example of that one grew right through that leaf.

[00:16:41]So, that's a cool tip that I've showed in other videos on how I just use a leaf for shade over the top. You could use a paper towel or some toilet paper or a little piece of fabric. Um and to a couple buddies I have sent out uh pieces of plant fabric.

[00:16:59]So, uh plant fabric is almost like a thin white bed sheet that you can lay over your cacti and keep it from burning. Um and it also helps as like a frost cloth for people that are in colder weather.

[00:17:16]And uh for people that live in Arizona or Texas and get the baking excruciating heat, um little tricks like that are huge because uh you wouldn't think of a cacti getting sunburnt, but they definitely can. Uh here's an example of a Trichocereus thelegonus.

[00:17:37]Um and see that yellow part on its side?

[00:17:40]That's just getting baked in the sun because usually they're completely upright growing that way.

[00:17:47]Um and when they lay down and start growing prostrate like this one, uh they can easily get sunburnt on that just exposed tip. Whereas these ribs each give them shade and uh from one another and keep the sun hitting different angles of that cacti.

[00:18:08]There's a long form.

[00:18:12]And we'll compare that one to right over here of the short form.

[00:18:18]And they are two completely different cacti clones with different genetics. And some people have asked and brought up uh uh that their short form has grown long sections.

[00:18:32]Um and that can often happen from uh low light scenarios.

[00:18:39]Um here's one that's a little bit longer.

[00:18:44]And we can see here this guy uh got some black spots and those have healed over white. Some people have asked about that. So, sometimes they get humidity blisters from um different issues, but these are just uh scars now.

[00:19:01]So, it is kind of normal for some of these sometimes. Here's an example of one little tiny black spot on the tip.

[00:19:10]And those will uh just become a white scar. That's kind of your goal is to have them scar over like that.

[00:19:19]You can see a lot of new pups and a lot of new growth coming out of these.

[00:19:23]And some people have asked about these like stackers or small small um sections coming off of older yellower um stands.

[00:19:39]And uh when a stand yellows like that, it can often just be from sunburn.

[00:19:46]And when it gets really small sections or segments, that can often just be from a lack of food and nutrients.

[00:19:54]So sometimes if you were to get a {quote} {unquote} stacking segment of multiple really small sections or small segments stacked up and then plant those in some healthy soil and give it plenty of water and food and grow it properly, it would just turn into a regular penis cactus and everything would grow normal with it. And you'd be like, "Oh man, I thought I had a really cool cultivar. I thought I had something unique and special here." But I mean cactus just grow differently in different environments. And sometimes if they don't have enough food or energy or root space and they're getting too much sun and heat, they can just start to grow smaller.

[00:20:41]And sometimes if they're growing in the shade, this uh toy on here gives us some afternoon shade and that helps produce a really luscious blue cacti.

[00:20:55]You can see these beautiful colors here.

[00:20:58]And this might not be that same color blue if it was grown in full scorching sun.

[00:21:06]And we can see uh you know, propagation techniques. I've taken tons of cuttings off of this. And you can see where this was cut and it's pushing out four new pups. And this was cut and it's pushing out two more. And uh just tons and tons of pups coming off of this TPM, Trichocereus uh Pachanoi Monstrose. There's also uh Trichocereus Peruvianus Monstrose.

[00:21:37]And we can see I cut this guy and it's pushing out multiple pups.

[00:21:46]Nice tall long form here. Ooh, and we talked about uh the crested TBM.

[00:21:55]So, here's a grafted crested uh TBM.

[00:22:02]So, that's the TBM cristata.

[00:22:05]And it's grafted onto this long form.

[00:22:08]Really cool. Here's another fat chunky strange piece grafted on there. Um this one that I grafted is putting out a variegated piece, which is super cool.

[00:22:20]So, I could cut that small yellow variegated piece off and propagate it.

[00:22:26]Um and I would most likely graft it onto my graft stock.

[00:22:32]So, here's an area where I've planted a bunch of cuttings and these should be rooted and hydrated now um in the pots. And I knew I was going to graft them, so I put them three into a pot. And here's a cool example. Some people have asked about like white spots on their cacti. So, see these spots, how they're in a pattern as far as they're in a line? And even though they're spot like looking or cluster of spots.

[00:23:04]That's from spines on another cacti.

[00:23:08]So, another cacti was growing really close to that and it poked in. Same with these here.

[00:23:14]If it's a bug or a disease, it'll come off really easily um if you scrape at it, but if it is stuck on there, it is most likely previous scarring. And the way that they get that scarring is um pushing up against each other like that.

[00:23:31]And if the spots are black, they're most likely fresher.

[00:23:34]Um and a long uh thing like this would be sunburn.

[00:23:39]So, that cutting got sunburned.

[00:23:42]Cacti drama.

[00:23:45]Cacti issues. They can't all be perfect.

[00:23:48]So, these will all get grafted onto This is kind of a cool before and after. I've put all of these uh larger 5-gallons into the shade over here so I can graft them through the heat. I'm going to get a little bit of heat in the next week.

[00:24:04]And we're under the shade of some citrus. We've got kumquats up above us.

[00:24:10]Yum.

[00:24:12]And um all different types of citrus.

[00:24:16]Anyhow, these will all get grafted. I'll graft onto all of these.

[00:24:20]Um and I'll do it just like I showed in the last video uh where I'll be cutting um a section about this tall off of the top and grafting to those and then I can replant the tip.

[00:24:35]And that's where I get um my next round.

[00:24:39]It's the circle of life. So, all of these guys that I've planted here um came off of previous grafts or uh previous mother stands.

[00:24:51]And so, I might take one 4-ft cutting and cut it up into five 10-in sections or something like that um and get mids um planted into the ground.

[00:25:04]And then once those mids grow up, I'll cut the tops off of those. And then um the tips that I'll plant I'll usually graft onto those. The uh grafts tend to do better on the fresh wet succulent growth rather than the old woody mids.

[00:25:22]So, these are all cool grafts growing here.

[00:25:25]Um we can see um most of them have popped and some of them are a bit more stubborn. It's looking like this scenic um it doesn't want to do its thing for me.

[00:25:37]And we're next to a long row of uh TBM penis cactus.

[00:25:45]And so I grow these as my mother stands.

[00:25:50]And I take cuttings off of these so that I don't just um totally murder them. You know, uh I get a lot of orders on the shop for TBM and I ship them throughout the United States of America.

[00:26:07]Um and so on one like this, I might cut like four cuttings off of that one and off of some of them I might only cut two or one. But that gives them time to kind of grow back.

[00:26:19]Um the difference being, you know, these long forms, there's just not the amount of spines on those.

[00:26:27]Uh so they don't propagate as quickly as these ones with so many uh different spines and areoles to grow from uh that rapidly pup and put out new growth.

[00:26:41]And um some of these are a little bit smaller. I might need to fertilize cuz I usually just put these nice big fat segments on my shop. And then if they're a bit ugly and they have some blemishes after they get cut, then I'll plant those for myself. Um Keep it going. Got to keep it going.

[00:27:04]And here's some um some other grafts.

[00:27:09]Kind of messy over here. I need to do some weeding.

[00:27:13]This one's a cool one. It's uh SSO2 * Olivia.

[00:27:19]Ooh, and there's a little spider and he's eating something on this one.

[00:27:23]It's got something in his mouth.

[00:27:27]So, that's always cool to keep those beneficial insects happy.

[00:27:33]Keep it growing organic without putting out weirdness.

[00:27:38]And then, I can see I've got a little bit of damage from slugs and snails on these. So, I'll put out some Epsom salts and some fireplace ashes and discourage those slugs and snails from uh cruising around.

[00:27:54]Here's Landfill * SSO2.

[00:27:59]And some SSO2 * Lumberjack.

[00:28:03]Some cool different SSO2s.

[00:28:07]And I'll head down here.

[00:28:10]Check out some neat stuff.

[00:28:14]So, these are all just different um areas uh pathways that I'm working on and creating and in between the citrus and avocado for shade. And then, um so, you can see my uh work in progress here. There's a shovel and then I'm digging out this section and pushing the dirt over here.

[00:28:40]Um and then, I will be putting uh uh landscape fabric down to stop the weeds. Here's I've dug this ditch out and I'll bury the landscape fabric and and dig some more dirt out of this side and then I'll finish this aisle and row.

[00:28:57]And the grass that are laying here um they'll get moved into a higher sun location. Right now we're underneath some trees. So, I try to start some of those grafts in a little bit shaded of an area and then I'll uh pick them up and move them.

[00:29:17]And I'll be honest. Um I probably won't move them myself. Um my sons might help.

[00:29:21]I don't have any workers or employees besides my two sons, uh Kingston and Huxley.

[00:29:29]And they're 11 and 13.

[00:29:32]Here's some cool pups coming off the tip of that um Sarah Blue.

[00:29:40]And this guy has been cut and this is really cool because, you know, you can really can't even see the part that was cut.

[00:29:47]So, I mean, at first it is kind of ugly to be looking at that cut cacti.

[00:29:53]But, you know, once the pups fill in and cover that uh cut section, you don't even see it anymore. And um here's three pups coming in on kind of an ugly cut section.

[00:30:07]And once they grow all the way in, um it'll just have a nice branched out look to it.

[00:30:15]So, with time everything will gain a little bit of beauty in the cacti world.

[00:30:21]Uh here's some grafts.

[00:30:23]Here's a good example of um So, I planted a bunch of cuttings in a pot really close together.

[00:30:31]And then what happens is if you look in there, it starts to get corked out. They start rubbing up against each other. It gets harder and woodier and they're going to just kind of get corked out and ugly.

[00:30:43]So, sometimes when I go to sell these grafts, I really want them pretty. I want to put everything on the shop that's pretty. So, this one might be one that I just plant for myself.

[00:30:53]Um cuz uh you know, like this is a good solid green one. It's not too close here.

[00:31:01]Um this is El Serpiente.

[00:31:04]We can see that cool melty growth kind of that one looks like it has four ribs or three ribs. Um and it's kind of a cool example here.

[00:31:17]Uh it was named El Serpiente um it meaning serpent in Spanish cuz it looks like a cobra.

[00:31:26]So, a lot of times once it grows up like that, it gets starts to get kind of you know, the cobra sheath neck and then starts putting out fangs at the tip.

[00:31:40]I like that El Serpiente.

[00:31:44]So, these are good examples of the slab graft being set down on top of the root stock um and then pushing out new pups coming out. And then here's we I can see uh water has pooled up in between the ribs and then it got sunburned.

[00:32:07]But, eventually those pups will grow over that slab and I I won't even be able to see it.

[00:32:14]So, here's um a cool group of grafts that I've been working on. Um Neon Mittens. And so, I was gifted or got a a cool giveaway cut um as a gift from a lazy seedling.

[00:32:31]So, it's always cool to get uh win a giveaway or something like that, you know? And even I I get stoked on them and I enter and I try to win a giveaway. So, I'll offer a giveaway right now to anyone that wants to try to win one of these uh Jim's twin spines.

[00:32:53]And so, hopefully if you win a Jim's twin spine, you'll be stoked on your free giveaway.

[00:33:02]Um And in the middle here uh is an isolation project that I've been working on, Paula. So, if you follow along, I had a cutting of Paula. We can see a bit of this slab graft here that had a streak of variegation, meaning just a streak of yellow growing through it. Uh and then what I'm hoping for is to get uh growths and pups like this one here that have that yellow growing through them. And I can see, you know, like on this one, it's got a little bit. And over on this side a little bit. It's not quite as much as I'm hoping for. This one has a little bit. So, I'll probably I'll pick a piece like this and cut it up again and try to isolate it a little bit more.

[00:33:57]Um I have let some of these grow out just cuz it's kind of a cool fun project for someone else. Like if I sell this cutting and it has a little fleck of variegation and um they can try to do what I'm doing by just isolating that variegated fleck and creating a fully variegated Paula. So, that's a cool project I'm working on.

[00:34:23]Look out for that in the future.

[00:34:24]Hopefully, I'll have a fully marbled variegated Paula. That one is coming along nicely.

[00:34:34]And it's sitting next to that Gym's twin spine.

[00:34:39]And in most cases, these Gym's twin spines do get two spines that are like perfect twins.

[00:34:46]Um we can see on these ones I'm trying not to poke myself.

[00:34:50]You can see how those spines are just twins.

[00:34:53]Um but these are growing really happy.

[00:34:56]So, they've got all their spines here and uh these are so easily broken off.

[00:35:04]Like you just barely touch one of these and oh gosh.

[00:35:10]So, these have no leaves brushing against them. Um no uh no branches, no wind hitting them, no animals or anything and that's why they're able to push out so many spines.

[00:35:24]So, I'm sure there are some other people that are going, "What the heck? My Gym's twin spine is bald. It doesn't have anything."

[00:35:31]And realistically, if this was just lightly brushed as it was coming out by a little fabric or anything, it it would also be growing completely bald without any spines.

[00:35:47]And then over here, got some really cool ones.

[00:35:54]These are some reverted long forms.

[00:35:58]So, these are long forms that have reverted to regular growth. And we can see here uh those guys are ones where I've cut the graft off. So, I can physically cut this off at the base and uh ship that out to someone, put it on my shop. Um and the great part about PC, uh that's what I graft most of my stuff onto, is that it roots so [snorts] easily. Like we've seen uh those huge batches of everything that I got going, and um it's such a hearty fast grower.

[00:36:31]So, I really try to get mine uh fully hydrated. You can see how the ribs are uh completely spaced apart, and it looks really fat and really heavy before I cut it. And that gives it plenty of energy to do its travels. Um And if the ribs are more sunken in, I guess this is a little bit better of example at the edge here, uh then it just doesn't have as quite as much energy to root. Uh and it still will root, and it still will do good, but it it just won't have quite as much to um go through its next stage of life, which is you know, if I cut this base off here, then it's going to need to pour its own roots out and support itself.

[00:37:22]And uh these are Bruce's dragon in front of me here.

[00:37:27]And this is actually a really cool size because say uh you bought one of these, um you could cut this part off all the way, and because this slab has more areolas, it it would grow more pups out of these spines. And then this one you could put um as a cutting into a pot and root it, or you could even cut it into five or seven pieces and make your own five or seven grafts. So, you could buy one piece, you know, and then cut that up into seven pieces, and make your own grafts out of it, and then also the original graft would keep growing for you.

[00:38:16]Here's kind of some cool examples of uh single areolae. So, this is was a big fat Don Juan.

[00:38:26]And so, this big fat Don Juan, it's like it's just so big to even fit on the root stock. So, the root stock we're looking at, that one's like 4 in. These are all probably 3 to 4 in wide. And the huge chunks like this, that's hard to even squeeze it on there. See, I was able to just barely fit this one with two on there. So, these are single ribs.

[00:38:50]This one has a little bit of junk on it.

[00:38:53]And and we can see the pup barely coming out of there. This one we can see it's split and it's coming out way more.

[00:39:01]And then this one we can see that's the only So, there was just the one single areole and now I'm getting that growth off of it. So, that's pretty cool. I was able to cut cutting.

[00:39:15]And I planted the cutting, but I also decided I cut a small segment off of the base of the cutting and made these six grafts.

[00:39:24]That one the pup is so big you can't even see there's barely visible evidence of the slab underneath it.

[00:39:34]It is barely there.

[00:39:37]And here's a really small one. If you go much smaller than this, like too small the piece, they can shrivel up. I know a lot of guys do micro grafts and stuff like that. I do a lot of my grafting outside, so it can easily shrivel up and not do as well.

[00:39:53]Here's some double dragons.

[00:39:56]I'll have to cut a couple double dragons for the shop. And a couple of these are just big enough to do as a cutting.

[00:40:03]That's probably 6 to 7 in right there, so I could just cut that off and and put it on as a as a cutting and then regrow it myself. Let me see, do I have any examples of I I don't think any have been cut like that yet.

[00:40:20]And here's some fat tips.

[00:40:25]So, if I cut this part off and it didn't have an areola, then it wouldn't really have anywhere to grow from and it wouldn't do that good.

[00:40:33]You can see at the base it just doesn't have anything.

[00:40:38]But, this one I could cuz it's got something.

[00:40:44]Here's a couple other Bruce's Dragons.

[00:40:49]Love that dragon mouth.

[00:40:53]And then ones up here that I'm working on. I'm really stoked on. I'll show off the uh There's a Bruce's Dragon sitting next to the That's a reverted long form. And then there, my pride and joy, that's a a revert monstrous uh short form.

[00:41:15]So, this is something that um I got a small piece of and isolated it and it's a short form that has just grown out really weird. At first, I was almost thinking, man, is that Bruce's Dragon?

[00:41:30]Was Bruce's Dragon just a reverted uh short form?

[00:41:35]But, no, the spines are slightly different and looking at these spines, I mean, they're pretty similar.

[00:41:42]And the growth is kind of different.

[00:41:46]And uh Bruce's Dragon seems to just continue putting out more spines, whereas that uh does kind of the classic TBM where it puts them out more at the base and less at the top.

[00:41:59]Really a cool one, Dave's Dragon Dick, the triple D.

[00:42:05]Love that.

[00:42:08]And of course, there's just a mess behind me.

[00:42:12]Everything's always a work in progress.

[00:42:14]Here's a little bit of a work in progress here.

[00:42:17]Got a hillside of fresh stuff going.

[00:42:21]They need some irrigation and water and love. Those were just uglier cacti that I've planted into the ground and they will slowly become pretty with time.

[00:42:33]Well, cool. I love sharing and showing things off. Sorry I haven't been making videos as often lately. You can see I've been totally busy. I've been keeping the stock shopped of all different new things. Here's the Jim's twin spine one lucky winner will get and Thongwater, I will message you and send you tracking for your prize that you won.

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[00:43:34]And you will see that I do my best to answer even on really old posts. If it's a year old or two years old and you ask a question on there about that video on how to grow seeds or how to take cactus cuttings or how to plant cactus, I will do my very best to answer your question.

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[00:44:04]All right. Cheers. I hope everyone has a rad day, and I'll see you next time.