welcome back! <3 maybe you need to change your name to old wisdom now
it's great to see others returning too. looking at your profile it looks like you stopped posting just before i joined, so we probably never crossed paths, but it's nice to meet you now.
I would love to see this place pick up again, please bring everybody you know!

It seems we can't upgrade the forum (and i assume we are limited in a lot of other things we can do too) without seedmaster, who has not been online for about 2 years. maybe you are still in touch with seedmaster?
a lot of people migrated to reddit, but i hate places like that so i am sticking around here and waiting for the fashion to cycle back around once everybody realises what those places are like

I'm also interested in what veggies you are growing. I grow more veg and herbs etc than i do sacred plants, but i am trying to change that as i get far more satisfaction from plants with a deep cultural history, vs plants for food. If you are anything like me you probably grow too many to easily list

You could graft one of those buttons up,  then invest in some BAP (6-Benzylaminopurine) and Lanoline cream and use this plant hormone to encourage your grafted button to produce pups to be used for more grafting stock. 

Once your button is grafted and activly growing that plant hormone if used correctly will give you lots of new buttons to play with!

Thanks! <3
I think i read about this once when i first got my first button, but i was way too new to really take it in and was still trying to figure out what kind of soil to use let alone anything else. Can you recommend a correct way of using it?

I have some PDF books on both topics and many more,  Some related to growing and some aimed at other areas of researech for both species. 

Shoot me a DM and I'll send yoiu a link to the digital library if you wanna take a look

Thank you! <3

I do have one plant i bought at about 1cm that i have had for a few years that i want to leave as it is on it's own roots, and i have 4 that i grew from seed, so i was planning to keep 2 of those to grow on their own roots and graft the other 2. I agree, to me there is something more satisfying about having them on their own roots. I hope to pass them on to my grandchildren

I think i saw something about upside down grafts using the roots before. maybe i will do one of each. hmmmm

thank you for the help

You could graft one of those buttons up,  then invest in some BAP (6-Benzylaminopurine) and Lanoline cream and use this plant hormone to encourage your grafted button to produce pups to be used for more grafting stock. 

Once your button is grafted and activly growing that plant hormone if used correctly will give you lots of new buttons to play with!

Welcome Back!   Sites been slow, its goos to see a little activity around these parts!  Would be nice tro see this place vibing like it used to!  This place was a oasis of a community!

I too have trouble uploading more than one attachment at a time.  Not Very many people upload here anymore.   DMTNexus and Shroomery seem tro be the only actrive forums that I am aware of.   Mycotopia has a few members who browse the forum. 

Good to see old members coming back.    End of season I shoulld have soime seeds to offer for a give away. 

What kind of vegtables are you growing?

I was trying to add attachments to the post but it is giving me errors.  A 404 failed to load page when I had all 10 slots filled and when I just had one attachment it said failed to upload.  Dang. I'm gonna try to add some to this comment.

Hey y'all, I'm New Wisdom!

I used to be a very frequent user of this forum back when it first formed.  I was a moderator and I believe still have my moderator status.   I loved this forum so much, but life happened and lots of people migrated to social media platforms instead of forums so I slowly stopped using this site. 

I am hoping to come back here more frequently again and hopefully help pull more people back here!  Any of my old friends still active here?!  It's been years and I missed y'all!! 

I'm still growing cacti like crazy and veggies now too.  I am married and working as an electrician now.  Things are going pretty good in my life.  Here's some pictures of my garden!  Much less grafting and more just letting the cacti grow up the slow way. It's a lot less work. Lol.

Much love!
New Wisdom

Thank you! <3

I do have one plant i bought at about 1cm that i have had for a few years that i want to leave as it is on it's own roots, and i have 4 that i grew from seed, so i was planning to keep 2 of those to grow on their own roots and graft the other 2. I agree, to me there is something more satisfying about having them on their own roots. I hope to pass them on to my grandchildren

I think i saw something about upside down grafts using the roots before. maybe i will do one of each. hmmmm

thank you for the help

  I have great sucess grafting plants that size roughly 1.5cm on to Trichocereus cacti ,  and smaller seedlings (as well as older ) onto Pereskiopsis spathulata which is great for Lophophora's!

  For Trichocereus just make sure the Vascular Rings are crossed at 2 points, and trim back the root stock so it doest lift the button off!  a section of womens panty hose works something nice to secure the button to the root stock and easily hooks on the spines of the rootstock!

Depends on how much of the growth portion is left on the young roots,if your able to leave   "aerial nodes" -- areoles it will push pups out of those.

Alternatively if you can leave the areoles on the bottom you could make two grafts with one plant, and graft the lower portion as well..  food for thought

While grafted plants are super interesting, and grow extreamly fast, Lophophora on there own roots are my main goal.  Not sure how many you have but i would experiment with what you would concider acceptable loss.  If you don't gamble you can't win!

i have a few tiny lophophora seedlings and i have been thinking about grafting one of them on to a san pedro, peruvian torch or bolivian torch.
i have a few questions to calm my nerves before i go for it

1.   they are very young and only around 15mm diameter. is this too small?
2.   can i graft it on to any size stock, as long as the cores are crossing over?
3.   if i slice the top off the loph and leave the roots in the soil will a new head grow back?

i know i should just go for it but i'm nervous about my babies
thank you