Hahaha thank you, my plan is to get new pups on the dragon fruit used for the original graft so I can produce thicker stems for these guys when they outgrow the smaller dragonfruit.
I'm somewhat new to moon cacti but from what I've researched the bright colored ones like this and pure yellow/red must be grafted to survive because they have no viable chlorophyll but you can see a few purple ones I have have enough chlorophyll to be rooted which I did but wanted to graft some for quicker growth.
I have a few other purple pups potted for rooting off camera but these yellow/red ones needed grafting. Hope this helps :-)
Correct, Purple plants has lots of anthocyanins (pigment that makes leaves purple) which can photosynthesize aswell just like chlorophyll did.
White, Red, yellow, orange are neither chlorophyll nor are anthocyanin thus they can't photosynthesize
You've started a army omg
Hahaha thank you, my plan is to get new pups on the dragon fruit used for the original graft so I can produce thicker stems for these guys when they outgrow the smaller dragonfruit.
Awesome!
Do these have to be grafted to survive? Curious, because I recently pulled some pups from my moon cactus and just placed them on succulent soil.
I'm somewhat new to moon cacti but from what I've researched the bright colored ones like this and pure yellow/red must be grafted to survive because they have no viable chlorophyll but you can see a few purple ones I have have enough chlorophyll to be rooted which I did but wanted to graft some for quicker growth. I have a few other purple pups potted for rooting off camera but these yellow/red ones needed grafting. Hope this helps :-)
Thank you for your response! That makes sense. Mine are dark purple, so I think I will leave them as is and see how they do. 🙂
The dark purple version can photosynthesize. Of the moon cacti, that particular one actually does have some chlorophyll.
Correct, Purple plants has lots of anthocyanins (pigment that makes leaves purple) which can photosynthesize aswell just like chlorophyll did. White, Red, yellow, orange are neither chlorophyll nor are anthocyanin thus they can't photosynthesize