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InvisibleMollyLucyMaryJane

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Moon Cactus from Walmart doomed?
    #23656528 - 09/18/16 06:23 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Hey ppl I bought this moon cactus from Walmart because I thought it looked cool but it ended up getting shut behind a blanket used as a curtain in the window and was exposed to very high temperatures.. I would guess the 120F range if not even hotter.

The cactus ended up leaning really bad to one side and developed some scarring. After some research I learned that the orange "top" cactus is like a grafted parasite that grows slower than the bottom one and cant survive on its own but the bottom Hylocereus is actually a very cool cactus that Dragon fruits come from.

I also learned that these cacti wont live long like this and since the orange cactus is heavy I decided to chop it off to relieve some of the stress on the leaning Hylocereus cactus. I figured less weight pushing on the soft bottom cactus and less nutrients to feed to a useless "decoration" cactus would help it recover.

My questions to you guys are will this cactus manage to survive like this and can it recover from the heat damage?
How should I be helping it along and was removing the top cactus a good idea?






Edited by MollyLucyMaryJane (09/18/16 06:38 PM)


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Re: Moon Cactus from Walmart doomed? [Re: MollyLucyMaryJane]
    #23656856 - 09/18/16 08:01 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Chopping off the gymnocalcium wasn't necessary, but it won't hurt the hylocereus. It won't really help it either, because a graft functions as one plant and if a part needs to heal it will heal regardless of what's growing on top of it. Having another species grafted to the stock is no different from just leaving the original hylocereus growth point attached. I'm sure it will recover fine from the heat. Hylocereus are very hard to kill and now that you decapitated its main growth point it will start throwing out stems from the arioles, assuming those are still intact.


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InvisibleMollyLucyMaryJane

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Re: Moon Cactus from Walmart doomed? [Re: saythatagain]
    #23656874 - 09/18/16 08:05 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Thanks, I read somewhere online that since the Hylocereus grows faster than the orange cactus it will die anyways after a year or 2, also I want to grow only the green cactus I didnt like the idea of taking care of it for it to die in a year and aparently without the orange cactus to take care of the green cactus will grow much faster.


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Re: Moon Cactus from Walmart doomed? [Re: MollyLucyMaryJane]
    #23657893 - 09/19/16 06:05 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Kelp helps plants deal with heat and cold stress. It also makes plants healthier, so they are more easily capable of recovering from damage. And it contains chemicals needed to encourage new growing points.

Among other things.


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Re: Moon Cactus from Walmart doomed? [Re: El Torcho]
    #23658086 - 09/19/16 08:15 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

No reason why it can´t recover.  With the top lopped off it has lost its growing point, but will soon grow a replacement.



Like this blue myrtle that I used as grafting stock - the graft failed leaving it without a growing point - exactly the situation yours is now in -  but it has grown another one.


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Re: Moon Cactus from Walmart doomed? [Re: Spanishfly]
    #23658477 - 09/19/16 11:15 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Thats how i saved my myrtilo, let it pup.


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InvisibleMollyLucyMaryJane

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Re: Moon Cactus from Walmart doomed? [Re: Spanishfly]
    #23658559 - 09/19/16 11:52 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Thanks for the feedback.

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El Torcho said:
Kelp helps plants deal with heat and cold stress. It also makes plants healthier, so they are more easily capable of recovering from damage. And it contains chemicals needed to encourage new growing points.

Among other things.




I might look into kelp didnt realize how beneficial it was.


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That new growth is looking great!


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