Hello!

[Henque]

Hi
Added myself here because i got a pachanoi from a friend and i will be needing advice on a few things. So maybe i can tap into the knowledge here.

I know it is no really polity to do this but i do think this is an emergency situation so i will ask this question now. I got a pachanoi from a friend. It was a stump with two small babies on it. The stump rotted away but the two babies are still alive. And i wanted to know what to do with them.

I removed them from the rotten stump. I have put them in a warm dry spot (its always 30 centigrade here).
What next?
Sorry for this maybe very rude introduction question but i do not want to lose the babies!

 

[Cosmic Spore]

Trich-o-rot

apply sulfur powder.

Welcome to the nexus

 

[Henque]

Thank you CS.
I will go and find sulfur powder. I do live on an island where things are not always easy to find. But i will look at the drugstore and also at a garden store.
This sulfur powder will kill pathogens and stop the rot?

Then after i apply the sulfur i will let the wound heal.
After that pot the two babies in appropriate potting soil, with rooting hormone and let them grow roots?

Thank you!

 

[Cosmic Spore]

After applying the sulfur powder (aka flowers of sulfur, or sublimated sulfur), I would try to avoid any moisture for at minimum 3-4 weeks. After a month or 1.5 months, I would lightly water with rooting hormone in the solution.

I'm no expert on cactus rot. Hope all goes well.

 

[Henque]

Thank you very much!

 

[Orion]

I would try making sure you have a good sterile cut, far from the last reaches of the visible rot. Sulfur powder certainly a bonus here. Keep them out of the direct sun and allow the wound to dry over thoroughly for about a month as Cosmic Spore said. Hopefully they will root. Plant them in a good dry cactus soil mix. Hope they pull through for ya :thumb_up: