HOSPITAL...

in 2010 a dear friend of mine offered me a sucker of Lophophora williamsii ssp. jourdaniana. and from one other friend i " ordered " just a little cutting of a Trichocereus species.
because i had never ever done some grafting but was enticed to do a thing like that by the lovely www.lophophora.blogspot, i rooted the Trichocereus and grafted the Lophophora in october. for it was late in the year, i was forged to grow them through winter...but they did very well until this very day. the Lophophora was at the beginning the size of a hasel nut, nowadays a walnut meets her size. the tricky thing in spring will be to acclimatize them both to the sun...without becoming sun burned.
the other 2 patients are Aloe ramosissima. i have sown them in 2009 but have been a little careless last year, so that they lost their roots. i made a clean cut at the roots, powdered them with auxine or giberellic acid AUXIN = GIBERELLINSÄURE and after that with charcoal powder. now they stand in pure lava.
the last 2 patients are Alluaudia montagnacii. i have bought my " DEVILS DAGGER " some years ago and this old plant is nearly 2 meters high. at their tip she set off 10 branches which i have cut down to 3 remaining branchlets. 2 of them have been been large enough to possibly become new plants. i powdered them with auxin and charcoal too and they too stand in pure lava.
my ceramic pot is standing on my heating. the girls and boys i am really concerned about are the alluaudias. they are to small and very sensible. perhaps i might loose them. time will tell...