I GAVE IN!
Hello everyone! I gave in and got this beautiful cactus. His name is Risotto. ;-;b reminded me of metal spikes so I am like ayy, he can join my bamboo who has a JoJo based name too!
I hope I did okay. It took me an hour to get all the soil off of em cause I was going slow. He was REALLY dry on top and some of his roots were woody. I am glad to see that otherwise his roots are healthy and he's not mushy. In fact it looks like he did some corking? He's in a pot around the same size since I wasn't too sure if I should expand. I know they have shallow root systems.
Also! I didn't have heavy duty gloves but I saw a post that talked about a thick towel! It worked pretty well! I put him in Back to the Garden Succulent Soil, I have had good results with that!
But yep! Overall I think a good deal for 17 bucks and hopefully he'll be okay! I don't think I should put him in the full sun just yet but we'll see!