The white Cortex from San Pedro cactus makes excellent pickles. I encourage everyone to make at least once. I'll share the recipe here, just substitute the cucumber for San Pedro cactus Cortex.
https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/bread-butter-pickles/797bb778-8ced-40b8-a0c5-6d98b93ab693
“That one’s a Trichocereus Bridgesii Monstrose Variegated Cristata, It’s a Penis Cactus !!!……….
why are you leaving ?”
finally cut the last column on the stand so we can move the “stump” I mean pot to a different location. My walking space by the greenhouse has so much space now 😆
Here is how a cactus can grow roots at the same time as healing its cut surface.
While grafted, this cactus produced root nubs (pic 2). I cut the cactus off the graft stock. I duct taped a bag at the bottom of the cactus, but left the cut wound exposed to air (pic 5). Filled the bag with dry soil. I then stacked mesh trash baskets which leaves a gap at the bottom (pic 6) so the exposed cut can dry in the open air (pic 7). Two months later, it grew nice roots and callused the cut. I planted it today✅
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Sun goddess, ceramic horned lizard, and a little sign saying "Pee on me daddy uwu"
I was moving my plants to garage for winter, from my basement and noticed this off coloring at the base. I had several other cactus in the tent and nothing else shows anything like this. This is a graft stock, for a lophophora, if that matters. Any Ideas?
I’m moving soon and will be de potting my cacti. Just curious if I could put three different plant in this configuration.
Last photo mother plant
All of a sudden my beautiful cactus is acting sick... We moved about 8 weeks ago and since 3 weeks he looks like this. He has the same amount of light an water as in the old house. Maybe it a little more humid here in this house, but nothing extreme...
I saw today that he's growing a new baby, but still... What is wrong with him and what can I do?
Thanks for helping!
I managed to get my hands on this cactus. I’m planning to plant the tip cutting, but I have some doubts about the variety. Could someone with more knowledge help me identify what I have here?
I was recently gifted this cactus and it’s had a few incidents where it was attacked by a dog and I just want to know what can I do to help it have a better quality of life I’ve been trying to research like I have a filtering soil and low nitrogen fertiliser
U/justforshiggles helped out a newb and now I have an awesome cactus! Thank you again for the MeltixRibshifter!!
I’m looking on marketplace and found this one for cheap. Is it a good idea for seedlings and small plants? It’s perfect size for what I need but is the light good?
This is a Fahhims Collawasi x Juicy(ScopxTPM vari), same seed batch as the second pic but absolutely no signs of monstrose(got 2-3 grafts going), the only vari I've ever gotten from seed. I understand the basics I think, areoles with both yellow and green are what you want but just wondering if theres anything else I should do?
Pic 1- the cabbage worm you see at the bottom of the cluster is dead, just a husk. It had eggs lain in it by a tiny parasitic wasp, and then the wasp larvae ate their way out. Above the caterpillar corpse is a silky clump of parasitic wasp cocoons; they’ll hatch in a couple weeks, and the babies are welcome. The thing I can’t figure out- was the yellow cocoon clump made in a patch of yellow variegation on purpose, like as camouflage? Or was that a coincidence
Pic 2- these painted leaf hoppers are very nice looking, but they’re unfortunately not welcome on my plants
Pic 3- a neutral visitor, I think? This isn’t the best example of it that I’ve ever seen, but this wood nymph moth has a natural camouflage of looking like bird droppings. Some of these guys look pretty convincing
Pic 4- like most of us, I get a bunch of spiders on my cactus, and so some spider egg sacs. I really liked this one because the jumping spider that laid it used plant matter from a tree overhead to disguise it a bit. You can see the egg sac hidden behind the flower bits there
Pic 5- happy hatched babies a couple weeks later. These guys emerged at night & the mom was present. I took this pic in the morning when the babies were easier to see, and by then they had already begun to disperse. I hope a lot of them stayed very local to my plants