'Popcorn' - Mutant Cactus

Sacred. Cresting.

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“It looks like KFC”, was the description one of the Woo clan offered. And now we can’t look at ‘Popcorn’ without thinking of tucking into some Popcorn Chicken.

If you’re looking for a really unique plant, as a thoughtful gift for plant lovers, then you’ve found it. ‘Popcorn’ presents as a classic cluster of cresting. If you stare long enough, each crest

What’s a crest? Crests are mutations in cactus where they develop multiple points of growth. Rather than shooting straight up with the single direction of growth, a crest kind of looks like the plant is unfolding.

Stare long enough at Popcorn and you’ll start to think it is a swirling multiverse…we do anyway.

Stats

Height: 15cm
Age: 2-3 years.

Genetics

Torres & Torres x Olivia
The Torres & Torres Pachanoi clone is said to have been discovered in northern Chile, while Olivia is also a Pachanoi clone, with strong monstrose tendencies.

Notes

Popcorn is a very healthy mutant. It was grown as a graft on Pereskiopsis Spathulata here in Australia by one of our country’s best growers. It is a de-graft, with a fully developed root system. It’s ready to be planted in a big pot, and will love full sun and good water.

Growing process

Grafting is the art of taking two cacti and grafting them together to create a new and unique plant. The ‘scion’ is the grafting stock (the plant that will transfer its growth to the new plant). The graft is the new plant, which has been grafted onto the scion. Grafting takes a lot of skill to create a happy healthy plant, care to keep it growing on the root stock and then more skill and care to detach the graft (degraft) and then ‘root’ the plants, so it has its own root stock.