u/Responsible_Shake_90

I just acquired this plant from my local Home Depot and at the time of purchase it looked pretty healthy. Recently we have been having some heat waves and I noticed that the plant began to change color, but it is not soft so I’m wondering what I should do at this point. Is it dying? I removed it from the sun and it was acclimated and totally fine being in full sun just FYI. I think that because I used a fertilizer on the skin of the Cactus in spray form maybe that’s what did this. I’m really hoping it’s not going to die, but should I try to separate the pups and save what I can? Is it a goner? Thanks in advance for your help!

hey there, so this is my second time trying to grow from seed and almost everybody says that you should use a pretty much 90% in organic material and to sprinkle the seeds in between the pumice/rocks which I tried to do, but now that they have sprouted. It looks like they sprouted on top of the rocks. What should I do from here? Are they goners?? and what should I do differently next time? Thanks for your help! ( sorry for the extremely crappy picture, but I couldn’t get a focus for some reason, but they are very, very tiny) do I need more organic material?

I have a package of sunflower that I’ve had for the last few years and kept in my refrigerator so the germination rates have remained good, and I would like to plant this sunflower specifically, but I’m trying to remember what the seeds look like. The packet came with 10 different types of sunflowers, ranging from small ones to large ones, and there is a lot of black sunflower seeds, some large striped white ones, and then some small black ones so if anybody can help me figure out, which seeds probably come from this plant I would really appreciate it!

The reason why I am asking is because last summer, when I had multiple mammillarias blooming, I tried to cross pollinate them and I didn’t see any fruits really just a couple so I thought I had failed. Well fast forward to a month ago, I have all my plants inside under a strong LED grow light in my mammillaria started to not only bloom but push out fruits!!!! and same with another one that I have! I was completely shocked. Does it just take a very long time for the fruits to form??? does anybody know why this would happens once they are indoors and I wasn’t even trying to pollinate them?? I found it to be such a strange thing, so I thought I’d ask if anybody knows any information on this? Also, I have seen people remove the pods before they dry, and why do people do that instead of waiting for them to dry and then pull the seeds off?? thanks in advance!