Graft is dying.

Question

Can I remove just the graft or will I have to discard te entire plant. I have 2 of them but only this one has chosen to die.
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@RJG · Accepted Answer

You can remove the top and it's likely a dragon fruit as the graft stock.

@SirLiquorice · Answer

What @RJG said.  That’s a gymnoclaycium on the top of a dragon fruit plant.  You can remove the babies off the gymnoclaycium and grow roots on those and have a bunch of tiny ones and you can grow the dragonfruit plant by itself.  It will grow branches and eventually fruit possibly once it gets really big

@SirLiquorice · Answer

Each one of those pups on the gymnoclaycium can possibly be saved.  Just remove them and try to grow roots on all those babies

@SirLiquorice · Answer

That’s the only part @RJG forgot to mention was trying to save all those gymnoclaycium babies.  Don’t just throw those away too.

@SirLiquorice · Answer

It does take some time and patience to get them to root.  Or you could even try to graft the babies onto another cactus

@RJG · Answer

@SirLiquorice yah it's really difficult because these plants are without chlorophyl required to live on their own. They have to be grafted most of the time.

You never know though you could get lucky!

@SirLiquorice · Answer

@RJG yeah it can be a struggle or just graft the babies on to some other cacti. Worth trying but may not be successful

@KillerTofu · Answer

This happened to one of mine and I just removed the dead graft and now the base is thriving! It even grew a new limb!

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