Rooting Pereskiopsis - 30 & 60 day update. Looks like rooting compound makes a big difference!

[@benjaminthame4174]

I live in Australia , I cut them in summer and dry them out for 3 days. I use standard cactus mix with scoria and perlite. Stick them in a tub of water and their fully rooted in seven days! You can use what ever fertiliser you like. At 40 degrees they absolutely hammer along

[@THESALLYMONSAL]

cool . i wanna try growing them sideways in a shoebox tote since they are shooting side growth like this so i can grow many at once than cut and leave in a cup of water til they root and plant. thanks for sharing

[@TrustTheThorn]

Hell yeah ! I hear they root faster in soil which is odd. So you think they do better outside vs inside?

[@bobbun9630]

It's been about twenty years since I grew any Pereskiopsis--I mostly got out of the cactus growing habit quite some time ago, though I do still have a few. I have been thinking about growing and grafting some seedlings, so I might buy some when temperatures are warm enough to it to arrive safely through the mail (no earlier than mid-April). With that said... Like all cacti, the growth points on Pereskiopsis are either the growing tip (not a severed tip) or an areole. The pieces growing in from beneath the soil are going to be from buried areoles. Most likely the reason for the thin stems (and the reason the outdoor grown stems are thicker) is simply etiolation from weak lighting. Natural sunlight is going to be the best option for getting thick stems. Modern high intensity LED grow lighting of the type favored by mary-ja-wanna home growers (in places where that's legal, of course) are probably a decent second option. You need really good lighting for most cacti, of course, and Pereskiopsis is no exception. Have a care for those glochids! Until I got some Cylindropuntia imbricata, I thought Pereskiopsis was just about the nastiest cactus I had ever handled.

[@OffGridInvestor]

It's known that under grow lights indoors you get less spines apparently. I had one bruised that rotted in like 3 days. Chopped the top, threw the rest and tried to reroot the top. Just planted it in a pot tonight. I got 3 different lots, 2 with roots already.

[@zhaezz84]

At what temperature did you root those? Regards :)

[@thecactusexperiment9900]

Here's a longer version of my pereskiopsis rooting test. We have 30 day and 60 day growth, as well as indoor vs outdoor cactus. There's some unusual growth on some, so if you know or want to guess why, post you comments!

[@StalkerNaturaliste]

This is not what Pereskiopsis means. It means "like Pereskia", and Pereskia was name after Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, a french scientist.

[@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302]

No no no! It means pere like periscope, ski for snow skiing, and opsis for optical illusion. Psh.... amateurs.

[@liorsilverstein9802]

no it is perezkiopsis, came from the perez family, a jew family who escaped holocaust and planted a rare cacti, now with their name on it... perezkiopsis every single time