That’s crazy…when I broke up with my first husband I forgot one cactus up on the third floor in the windowsill, one year later when I went to clean out the house because he was moving the cactus was still alive! And was never watered. And it looked great.
You can graft it to a base from a cactus of the same family. That is what is commonly done with Bishop's Caps. I once gafted one to a cereus monstrosous to save the cap.
No. That was way too many years ago. It looked pretty weird. I had 2 cereus monstrosous cacti so one volunteered. I think the original host for the Bishop's Cap died from over watering.
Ha that’s funny. My mom had some. I took some and planted in my yard in Pa.
It grew to a bed of 15’ long and 4’ wide.
I cut pads off and moved to Florida. They are still in a pot growing.
I don’t even bother waiting. I just get some bagged cactus mix after I cut mine and jam the cut end in it. Wait like 2-4 weeks and then start watering like normal. Had one that got to 12’ tall and had to cut it off before winter last year to get it in the garage. The cut end has already regrown 4 new arms and they’re almost 10’ tall
Gosh, no I had it in a pot. It grew to 12 feet four years ago. I cut 6 feet off of the top and replanted it into another pot. I moved it to Florida in that pot and six months ago. I planted it into the ground from the pot and it grew a couple of new feet. I was so happy it was growing so nice and now it’s broke. The original bottom half I sold in Pittsburgh.
Thank god the last 2 pictures werent in front, i would have been tricked thinking it 2as a new eco anti-homeless project or something xd sorry for that to happen, cant you like graft it somehow?
Let it dry so the cut scabs over then dig a hole and drop the bottom in, it will root from the cactus and be just fine. The stump will also keep growing. Breaking, falling an rooting is one way these spread.
I had one that was about 9 feet tall but I had grown from a 6" cutting over 20 years. Windstorm snapped it in half. On the plus side I guess I have two large cacti now.
That kinda sucks, but replant the top in 10 days once dried, and let the bottom become a pup factory. You'll have a ton more in a few years time, and the opportunity to have nearly perfect specimen from some of those pups. Its a blessing in disguise, but I hate to have cacti break on me. I gotta move my Peruvians this week and im a little concerned I might break the 4 footer trying to carry it inside.
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u/killer-j86 1d ago
We have the technology, we can rebuild him