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Lemnaminor
Lophophora - eyed



Registered: 11/13/13
Posts: 1,366
Loc: Sicily
Last seen: 1 month, 25 days
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Eriosyce in Danger
#23702557 - 10/03/16 06:30 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is one of my most precious exemplars. Its an Eriosyce occulta and was doing really good since yesterday, when i spotted something wrong.
Top part, all near the apical meristem has a different colour, its dry and soft (not squishy) . The plant was well exposed to sun but i doubt its a sunburn , since it's used to full sun. I want to save this exemplar, even if this means cutting the top part, thus mutilating it. I will wait for a day or two. Any clues?
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LSoares
Farmer



Registered: 10/09/13
Posts: 3,209
Loc: Portugal
Last seen: 4 years, 2 months
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Weird. Nothing changed around it? Was the pot turned around, neighbour pruned a tree that shaded it, etc.? It does look like something burned it. Angry ex-girlfriend decided to punish you by ruining your favourite plant?
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Chemical Addiction



Registered: 08/16/11
Posts: 2,020
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Lemnaminor said: The plant was well exposed to sun but i doubt its a sunburn , since it's used to full sun. I want to save this exemplar, even if this means cutting the top part, thus mutilating it. I will wait for a day or two. Any clues?
the only time I've had cacti turn purple that weren't suppose to was from sunburn, but I am not familiar with that plant could be something else. You could try grafting a tubercle just in case it doesn't make it.
-------------------- Vegetation has crawled for miles towards the cities. It is waiting. Once the city is dead, the vegetation will cover it, will climb over the stones, grip them, search them, make them burst with its long black pincers; it will blind the holes and let its green paws hang over everything. —Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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Mostly_Harmless
wyrd bið ful aræd



Registered: 05/12/09
Posts: 5,043
Loc: Perfidious Albion
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Chemical Addiction said: the only time I've had cacti turn purple that weren't suppose to was from sunburn, but I am not familiar with that plant could be something else. You could try grafting a tubercle just in case it doesn't make it.
The purple of this exemplar is normal. E. occulta can be green, pink, purple, brown, to near black.
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Lemnaminor
Lophophora - eyed



Registered: 11/13/13
Posts: 1,366
Loc: Sicily
Last seen: 1 month, 25 days
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the problem in fact is not the colour. Being this dark purple is one of the reasons i love this exemplars. but if you look zooming, the zone around growing tip is a "grneenish" violet.
Never moved it, and it took 2 months of full sun ( august and semptember) now that the weather is less sunny, i can't think of sunburn. no particular waterings
the plant is perfect and firm from the base to mid.
Going to update tomorrow, hoping it stalls this conditions
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Lemnaminor
Lophophora - eyed



Registered: 11/13/13
Posts: 1,366
Loc: Sicily
Last seen: 1 month, 25 days
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aaaaand it's gone. I knew it was going to die, as they day after the green soft part became larger. Anyway , today it was there, all infected with this horrible desease, perfect in shape, but surrounded by swarming insects.
I hate losing exemplars like this, but if there's one thing that i hate more, is losing an established plant that never had an issue, with apparently no reason.
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      "The best things in life, come covered in spines."
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