Lemon Flip
Rising Star
Hello all,
I germinated a half dozen or so Echinopsis pachanoi two years ago. I was just learning how to take care of cacti and mistreated them horribly, depriving them of water and adequate light for far far too long. They ended up extremely shriveled and near-death at only about 1-1.5cm tall. This last spring I gave them a whole lot of water and 2 didn't respond, but 4 of them FILLED with water, and grew so fast! They are now at about 2cm with the tallest being about 3cm. I've been lightly misting during fall and let the soil dry out completely for a bit before I doused them with a larger amount of water after ~a month of little water. Well I have been letting the soil dry (not completely) but today when I returned from work they had all been laying down. I guess they just needed to rest :surprised who knows?
What the hell?! The soil was near dry but not quite. IIRC the soil composition is about 60/40 sand/garden soil with a bit of real salty and alkaline bonneville lake bottom and some gypsum. Why were they sleeping? lol
I've proped them up with snail shells and they seemed alright with no breaking or tearing at the base, I just want to know what went wrong so I can avoid this in the future.
Thanks
I germinated a half dozen or so Echinopsis pachanoi two years ago. I was just learning how to take care of cacti and mistreated them horribly, depriving them of water and adequate light for far far too long. They ended up extremely shriveled and near-death at only about 1-1.5cm tall. This last spring I gave them a whole lot of water and 2 didn't respond, but 4 of them FILLED with water, and grew so fast! They are now at about 2cm with the tallest being about 3cm. I've been lightly misting during fall and let the soil dry out completely for a bit before I doused them with a larger amount of water after ~a month of little water. Well I have been letting the soil dry (not completely) but today when I returned from work they had all been laying down. I guess they just needed to rest :surprised who knows?
What the hell?! The soil was near dry but not quite. IIRC the soil composition is about 60/40 sand/garden soil with a bit of real salty and alkaline bonneville lake bottom and some gypsum. Why were they sleeping? lol
I've proped them up with snail shells and they seemed alright with no breaking or tearing at the base, I just want to know what went wrong so I can avoid this in the future.
Thanks