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OfflineHarmonic_Order
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Unloved Cactus in Intensive Care
    #5457162 - 03/29/06 08:56 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)


I have transplanted this severely traumatized cutting from the open air to a windowside pot. The cactus arrived, root ball dry, stuffed into a shipping package and wrapped in packing paper.
Its true identity, as far as genus/species goes, I cannot tell. The package, a grab-bag of psychoactive cacti, contained one Peruvian Torch, one just like this, and this one.
This cactus came to me looking severely fucked-up, but for some reason, perhaps because it had roots, I decided to try and save it. I reasoned that since the other two, which ended their earthly incarnation as tea, gave me such visons, this one might do so also.
However, having grown attached to my large, blue, perhaps-but-probably-not Peruvian Torch (or something) cactus (shut up), I know i really potted it because i wanted to watch something grow.
The orphan cutting sits in store-bought cactus mix with a limestone gravel layer underneath. The soil came with bone meal, so nutrients don't present any profile whatsoever.
The guy previous really didn't love this plant. Since he let the cactus get sunburnt, i have it below the horizon, there to stay until the burn fades. Presumably the burn does fade eventually... right?
Occasionally, I leave a hardware store-bought grow light on all my plants, so sometimes this specimen gets as much as 10 hours a day of 75W sunlight-ish illumination. Otherwise, only indirect light.
After about a month, maybe a month and a half, I see neither rot nor dessication. And unless it had died, i shouldn't see any dehydration, right? I water this one just like i water my other--wait until it dries out completely first.
On the other hand, i see no growth, either.
I wonder how long it might take to see growth?
And I never did grow a cactus from a stem-end cutting, only a growing-tip cutting. They hacked off this one about six inches above the ground. How might that affect its growth?
Y'all got any advice on this?


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Re: Unloved Cactus in Intensive Care [Re: Harmonic_Order]
    #5457173 - 03/29/06 08:58 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Looks like a pachanoi to me...


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Re: Unloved Cactus in Intensive Care [Re: Harmonic_Order]
    #5457186 - 03/29/06 09:00 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

are you sure its planted the right way up?

the top cut still looks a little green, if the other end is similar I would leave it to dry for longer.


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Re: Unloved Cactus in Intensive Care [Re: Harmonic_Order]
    #5457236 - 03/29/06 09:08 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

She'll be fine.

Stressed cacti are said to be more potent so you made a good choice by keeping it.

In time when the roots spread out , new pups will sprout out on top. Sunlight will expedite that.


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Re: Unloved Cactus in Intensive Care [Re: ArmFromTheAbyss]
    #5469091 - 04/01/06 08:57 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Bene, bene.
I love how things work out n the end.
All sunlight, all the time.
Nothing better in the world.
:shineon:


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Re: Unloved Cactus in Intensive Care [Re: Harmonic_Order]
    #5592098 - 05/04/06 10:57 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Update: This plant has put out a bud!
On the far right of the pic, see the brown/dead looking patch near the cut?
A fresh, green nodule pushed out of that patch sometime this week.
It looks like an eensy little version of a mature cactus head.
I never saw anything like it; guess that answers the question of how a cut stem-end recovers!
Presumably it has to grow out at an angle to the cut, so maybe in the end I get a crooked cactus?
How exciting, i can't wait to see what developes!


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Re: Unloved Cactus in Intensive Care [Re: Harmonic_Order]
    #5593237 - 05/05/06 08:48 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

WOW! congratu-motherfucking-lations!

I was going to chime in and say "it will grow so long as it doesn't rot" or something, but apparently you now know that :smile:


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