How to Propagate Succulents by Coring to Create Offsets
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- When Succulent Gardens nursery general manager Aaron Ryan wants pups or offsets from a desirable succulent that doesn't produce them on its own, he stimulate the plant's growth-producing meristem tissue by coring it with a power drill. Later, he'll excise and pot-up the little clones that result. Drastic, perhaps, but it works---and doesn't harm the mother cactus.
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OMG! I’m scarred for life! 🤣😆 You guys are the pros, so you know what you’re doing. It looked really painful, but if it will make that cactus give more babies, then I guess, that’s fine. 😅 (whimpering and sniffing) I’m so glad I dont have that variety. 🤣😆 Really creative. 👌
WOW! this was absolutely AMAZING to see I have never seen anything done like this before :-) I don't think I would be brave enough to do it as I would feel like I was torturing the plant though LOL! :-) it will be amazing to see the outcome over the following months :-) thanks a million Debra and Aaron for sharing this and sending you both an abundance of love and heaps of happy growing from right across the Emerald Isle XXXX
Hi Debra - I just found your channel. WOW, I was pretty shocked to see him drill down the middle of that cactus! I have never seen anyone use this technique before. Thanks for sharing - it's pretty amazing what plants can withstand!
Thank you for these informative videos! I do learn something out of each one of them. Please continue with this great work. Succulents, even though people say are the easiest plants to keep alive, I find that in order to keep them gorgeous looking, do require a lot of expertise. I was a beginner a few months ago but videos let yours really helps me learn. I am more comfortable now and I would like to go more indepth and these recent clips are perfect!
Wow the poor cactus lol but I'm suppose those nurseries have to keep those plants producing. Really interesting though! And thanks for updating with the picture 😊
Omg! I can feel the pain, i have 1 gymno and i had it for 3 years, it never have offsets or bloom...but i only have that 1 type of species. Im not sure if im gonna be daring enough of have the heart to do that!!! But this is something new that i learn today!! Thanks so much!!
Good luck!
@@QueenofSucculents is it possible to have pups of golden barrel without this process?
@@shreyash6495 Yes, they do offset, but not until they're around 10 years old. Damaging the tissue, even around the base of the plant, will stimulate the production of offsets.
I learned something new! Thanks. You wrote that it doesn't hurt the mother plant. I would think its life would be shortened. Once it produces offsets and those are eventually removed then it would stop growing unless it is able to keep producing babies ad infinitum. If a Plant never grows it gradually declines and perishes.
Good point, John. Also, in a later video about offsets, Aaron tells us that an Agave potatorum---which had been cored and subsequently produced dozens of clones---eventually perished. It's important to note that coring is a propagation method that nurserymen use mainly as a last resort when a plant doesn't pup or produce seeds, and from which it's not possible to take cuttings.
the cactus was like, ughhhh human wot r u doing ? human stahp, arghhhhhhh my brains
Great Video Debra!! Love it!
Woah! How strange, but wonderful! Don't know if I'll be brave enough to give it a try, to be honest ;) No good with power tools!
Good to know.... 👍💚💚💚
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I've tried this on one of my cactus, it does really produce offsets, but I really feel bad for coring it out.
Wow, interesting 😍
Can you do this with column cactus? Especially to rooted mother’s?
Can this be done in younger cactus?
Hello, this is really helpful. I've been taking care of cacti for more than 2 years now and I must say, I do have cacti that has been dormant or I havent seen any growth at all. May I know what are the other cacti that can be propagated through coring? thank you
After photo?
do we have the result pics ? :) its amazing !
Alas, no. I'm working on it. You're not the only one who has asked!
E. terscheckii is not a slow grower by any means, it’s a pretty fast growing species.
I don’t quite get it yet. To damage a full grown cactus like this just to get offsets? this really confused me
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Question for Aaron Ryan or Debra-when you do the coring like this, does it then stunt the growth of mother barrel cactus??
Same question. It seems like the pups grow at a much faster rate. However all clumping ones I’ve seen are connected to a really big one.
Can this be done with all barrel type cacti? Can it be done with other cacti?
Yes!
Happy new year....can i ask for help where can i buy seeds and seedlings. Of diffrent types oc cactuses in bulk orders
Sorry, that's not my wheelhouse.
Whoa! But isn't the apical meristem located right under/inside the very tip and a quite small region of tissue? So the rest of the deeper coring was for nothing then.. Cause if it pups from the top, that seems fine as an offshoot too. And you also use an incredibly abrasive not desinfected speed drill.. But generally interesting tip to use a drill. :)
Castroville is not near Santa Cruz it’s near Moss Landing, Monterey, Watsonville.
If you're in Australia, as many viewers are, it might be better to say Castroville is near San Francisco.
so, since it stops the mother plant from growing larger and makes it start to grow pups, I could do that to a cactus I don't want to grow any larger and it would stop growing and use it as, say, a decoration or something that I wouldn't want it to grow larger than it is already?
Well, "cactus" is a huge category. Depends on the type. But yes, in general, damaging the tissues can promote the growth of offsets. Even many woody plants will do it; after pruning, they'll produce multiple stems or branches.
Never seen that done before... Great video. Question : Who's playing with the plastic bottle.. lol :-)
No plastic bottle. You are among a dozen or more people who have complained. Obviously if I could have controlled the annoying clicking I would have.
@@QueenofSucculents Sorry Debra, wasn't a complaint was an observation, :-) It just sounded like a dog chewing on a plastic bottle.
does the cactus survive?
I never was able to follow up on this. Aaron left and is working at a different nursery. Sorry!
Well let’s give a try! Sorry to hurt you my love cactus but i think i let my hubby do the coring.
Good luck!
Debra Lee Baldwin hi debra thanks for your reply I’m still a new blogger trying to have more subscribers would you be able to help me as one of my subscribers pls thanks a lot
i would never drill my cactus... ever
Now the question is will it work on a astrophytum
Gosh no, I don't think so. They're hard enough to keep alive without going after them with power tools.
@@QueenofSucculents your probably right haha
I have performed the coring method on a Copiapoa dealbata that had some nasty sunburn on it - I mean real nasty. Cored out the apical meristem tissue ( a fancy word for the growth head) to a depth of about 2 cms - I found that I did not need to go all the way down to the base of the cactus. In about 3 months, I managed to get 2 offsets of this wonderful species.
On a different note - instead of coring out the growth head, you could just as well chop off the growth head with a knife. I successfully performed this technique on a 6 month old Uebelmannia pectinifera and now have 5 pups/offsets growing off the remaining stem - what a nice way to get free Uebelmannia pups :)
@@QueenofSucculents I have performed the coring method on a Copiapoa dealbata that had some nasty sunburn on it - I mean real nasty. Cored out the apical meristem tissue ( a fancy word for the growth head) to a depth of about 2 cms - I found that I did not need to go all the way down to the base of the cactus. In about 3 months, I managed to get 2 offsets of this wonderful species.
On a different note - instead of coring out the growth head, you could just as well chop off the growth head with a knife. I successfully performed this technique on a 6 month old Uebelmannia pectinifera and now have 5 pups/offsets growing off the remaining stem - what a nice way to get free Uebelmannia pups :)
This technique will work on an Astrophytum - the thing is though...how sad are you to see you Astro destroyed for the great good of producing more babies :)
This hurt my heart :(
You have a very tender heart indeed, Mandy!
Why not just use some keiki paste on the areoles you want to pup or just spray the whole cactus with BAP? That would accomplish the same thing significantly faster, and without massive tissue damage.
Keiki paste like they use for orchids? How about you try it and let us know?
@@QueenofSucculents keiki paste works on cacti as well