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Runty Graft
Grown by MiddleAfter1547. Sold through Mysterious Yard. The grower posts it to you in a box of its own.
$70.00
- Grafted
- 24 in tall, 4 in wide
What you get
- The plant on top, growing on a rootstock that has its own roots — two plants joined, shipped with its roots dry, bare-root or in dry soil, whichever travels better
- Packed by hand, boxed snug
Runty is on the cultivar library’s list of other names →
- Shipping
- $28 shipping, the same wherever it goes; anything else in the order adds its own amount · USPS Ground Advantage, tracked
- Arrival
- Dead or destroyed on arrival: photos within 48 hours and it is replaced or refunded — which of the two is the shop's call
About this plant
This is a tip graft with the scion on top being "Runty" and the graft stock is Bridgesii "Freddy". This is a cutting and still needs some time to dry. Has plenty of Arial roots so give it a couple weeks for the cut end to dry and its ready to plant!
Care for a grafted plant
Unpack the day it arrives, pot it in dry fast-draining mix, first water after four or five days, take off any pup that grows below the join, ease it into full sun.
Full care notes
Unpack right away. Take the plant out of the box the day it arrives and brush off packing material. A plant that arrives cool, wrinkled or light is fine — it is just thirsty. Soft is a different thing: soft flesh means rot, and that is what the 48-hour guarantee is for.
Pot it up. Use a fast-draining mix — roughly two parts gritty mineral to one part cactus soil. Pumice is the best of the mineral part and perlite works. Pot into dry or barely damp mix, never wet, and no deeper than it needs. If it wobbles, stake it: burying more of a plant is not safer, it is the commonest way to lose one.
Watering a rooted plant. A plant that arrives with roots is not on the cutting schedule. Pot it into dry, fast-draining mix at the depth it grew, and give it four or five days before the first water, so any root bruised in the box can heal. After that, water it the way you would any established cactus: soak the whole pot, let it dry out, soak it again, testing with a finger a couple of knuckles down rather than going by the calendar. Never leave a pot standing in a saucer.
Grafts. The plant you paid for is the one on top; the roots belong to the rootstock under it. Any pup that comes up on the rootstock below the join has to come off, or it starves the plant on top.
Light. Bright light, but ease into full sun. It has just spent a few days in a dark box, so give it shade with plenty of ambient light for a few days, then half sun, then full. Going from shade to hard sun in the space of a week is enough to scar a plant permanently.
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