 Hello my dear friends and welcome back to Plants in Lucia. My name is Lucia and these are Danila and Gaia and today we are going to be grafting a moon cactus. Okay, coming up. Okay my friends, so according to my book Root Nurture Grow, which I love to use for all my propagation projects, grafting is a technique that we use to attach one plant to another plant. So we usually use this technique to attach for example fruit trees, different types of fruit trees or plants, or actually cacti. And a very good example for this is the moon cactus. So the moon cactus actually has a base cactus and a top cactus. This top part is actually grafted to the base and it cannot survive by itself. So it has to be attached to the base. One interesting thing about this is that the top cactus actually will produce babies. So I can show you there. Here's our babies here on the side, right there, and we can actually detach these babies and graft them to another base cactus. And then these babies will grow as big as this one and produce more babies. So when I learned about grafting, I thought, okay, I really gotta try this. So this is gonna be the first time that I'm gonna be grafting a moon cactus. And I will take you step by step in the process. So now, let's see what we need to graft our cactus. Okay, so in order to graft our cactus, we will need our moon cactus with babies, of course. And make sure that you water this cactus three days before you graft it. Our base cactus, we're gonna graft the top. Now this one was actually a moon cactus, but it was actually standing in bright direct sunlight. So the top got burned. So what I'm gonna do today is I'm gonna cut it and graft a new top. Some hydrogen peroxide to clean our tools, a sharp cutter, scissors, and rubber bands or a string. Okay, so now let's get to grafting. So the first thing that we will do is clean our knife with hydrogen peroxide or you can also use rubbing alcohol. Okay, so now we're gonna cut our baby here. Okay, so I'm gonna try to detach it like this just so I don't cut my hand. Maybe just trying to make that is breaking a little bit. Yeah, there we go. As you can see, you can see actually there how it was attached. This cactus right here, it was attached to the other one. And there you go, the other one is right there. So I think the previous top was really attached to this one, so I had to go really low. And what we're gonna do now is actually connect it to this circle right here in the center. But before we connect it, we need to smoothen it out. So I'm going to try to cut a little bit so I can smooth, I can make it smooth. I'm gonna try really softly. Now with force, we're just trying to go slowly. Okay, so now we're gonna cut this one so we can actually find the same center to connect with the base. And I don't know if you can see it, but there is a circle right here in the center. So we're gonna connect this circle with this circle here. But before that, we're just gonna have to put a little bit more angles in this here. Okay guys, and now let's attach the circle to the circle here. Like so. So I'm gonna take this one out of the decorative pot now. And this is where we use our string. The string is gonna help us keep this one on its place. So let me show you, we're gonna go like this. We have it my friends, we have attached our first moon cactus to the base together. This is the first time that I do it. So I'm gonna keep a very close eye on it and I will let you know the progress on Instagram and whether it works or it doesn't. I hope that it actually attaches and I will let you know. Also, let me know how it goes for you and if you have any tips, just comment below so we can all learn together. And as always, I will see you in the next video. Okay.