Grafting plants issue

i have checked in game (no mods no cc ) and am updated to today patch now i should be able to take a cutting from the pomegranate tree to graft to an orchid to get the death flower or vice versa and take a cutting from the snap dragon and dragon fruit  and graft one to the other  for a i think it's the cow plant berry

now my sim could take cuttings form the other plants except the pomegranate snap dragon dragon fruits  he goes through the motions of taking the cutting but the cutting from those  particular plants does not appear in his inventory i didn't check them all as i have a rather large garden might check later on those but at the moment and a guess here the ones he goes through the motions of taking a cutting are the ones that are grafted to get/unlock  for example sage+basil=parsley

edit to add update

i have two saved games backed up as basically there are 2 families i do not want to loose, that save is from the 5th March so the update is i swopped over the save files folders  launched and played and the sim can take the cuttings and graft just fine i eventually was able to graft the orchid and pomegranate  and got the death flower as per the other thread no show in the collections folder BUT i did get a pop up notice that he unlocked a new splicing recipe which the entry shows in the notebook

i swop the saves file folder back  launch and back to the issue is as above up to the edit to add update