Workshop:

Creating Cacti

with Martijn Baas

28 sep 2019
During this workshop, you will learn the art of grafting and design a cactus together with Martijn Baas. Grafting is a horticultural technique in which you join multiple plants and make them grow together. During this workshop, Martijn Baas will teach you the basics of grafting and inspire you to design your own cactus.
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Participant holding cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Grafting is a technique used to join two plants together. It is mostly used to get identical fruits on fruit trees like apples. The top part of these trees are grafted with shoots of the same mother tree and therefore produce the exact same variety of fruits. The same can be done with cacti. 
When cacti are grafted, the bottom cactus will influence the flowering and growth time of the top cactus. Cacti from entirely different living environments (desert, snow or jungle) can be grafted together, resulting in a cactus of its own!
 
During this workshop, our expert grafter Martijn, will tell you the story of how he became interested in grafting and teach you how to start the practice yourself. You will graft cacti from a selection he assembled. So you'll be able to make your own little creation! We recommend leaving your new baby at Mediamatic for a week for the grafting to be effective. 

Martijn Baas 

'What makes grafting cacti unique, is that you have them in the broadest variety of shapes and behaviours you can think of and are still able to join them.'
With a background in Product Design, Martijn Baas has specialized in working with Mycelium, cultivating plants, Bonsai and a broad range of plant-shaping techniques. He also has a broad interest in topics like permaculture, analog electronics, game design and composing. He uses grafting as a way to play Dr. Frankenstein.

Information

Workshop: Creating Cacti
Saturday 28th of September
Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam

Tickets: Full Price €30,- | Student / Artist / Stadspas €21,-* (incl. €1 administration costs) 
*We give a discount to students, artists and Stadspas holders. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card upon entry.
Please note that (unless everyone speaks Dutch) this workshop will be held in English.
 
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Martijn Baas talking about cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Martijn Baas talking about cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Participants listening to Martijn Baas's lecture - Alice Gimpel

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28-09-2018 Martijn Baas vertelt over het project Cacti - Enten is een techniek waarmee je planten samenvoegt. Het wordt doorgaans gebruikt om identieke vruchten te laten groeien op verschillende fruitbomen.  Het bovenste gedeelte van deze bomen wordt geënt met scheuten van dezelfde moederboom en produceert daarmee precies dezelfde vruchtensoort. Hetzelfde kun je doen met cactussen. Wanneer cactussen geënt worden, beïnvloedt de onderste cactus het bloeien en de groeitijd van de bovenste cactus. Cactussen uit compleet verschillende leefomgevingen… Alice Gimpel

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Participants picking cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Participants choosing cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Martijn Baas explaining to participants - Alice Gimpel

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Martijn Baas demonstrating - Alice Gimpel

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Participants discussing about cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Participants working with cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Participants working with cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Participant working with cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Participants working with cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Participants working with cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Participants discussing about cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Cacti combined - Alice Gimpel

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Participants working on cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Participant working on cacti - Alice Gimpel

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Participants writing their names on their cacti pot - Alice Gimpel