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@Transform Thanks for the link to this thread. Lots of food for thought. I've got alot of this Rust Mold going, and interestingly enough, it's infected mostly my Bridgesii/ Bridgesii Crosses the most.

My problems started back in 2020, when family and legal issues made me abandon an indoor grow and left everything in the dark for 6+ months in dark. No ventilation light etc.

The results of this manifested with one of worst Mite infections imagineable, I began treatment and was using 1:1 (alcohol/water) and graduated to a couple of Neem oil applications.

I was In a hurry thought I had washed the plants well to remove most if the neem oil applications, and started hardening them our outdoors , which resulted in a massive collection sunburn. Some of the plants were absolutely horrendous wirh burn and leached black puss as best I can describe .

Damaged areas were cut back with hopes of a quick fix, but due to life circumstances projects just sat all summer in 2021. Then winter came and my collection was hit with a huge freeze, killing and damaging many of my collection. From 2021-this currant spring they have just sat in my house slowly dying and enlongating.


I was feeling good earlier this week, over cast and a great sounding week to harden off my cacti out side. So I slayed the yard got it in ship shape condition (for my yard) and began moving plants outdoors under the patio umbrellas, cut back a few of the cacti, and dam the forecast changes on me. Rain and snow. Zone 3a/3b we get all 4 season in a day.

So I'm holding off on trimming/cutting any more of my collection until the rain and snow slows a bit. Iuckly the Temps are single digit °C and aren't expected to drop below 0°c.

I will also be giving the potassium bicarbonate solution a try, I too have some in my Lab/ Grow rooms. Unfortunately I haven't set foot in that room, in nelly 3 yesrs. So will spend the next few days taming that room. Will be good to get those rooms cleaned up and sorted.. it's a bitter sweet set of rooms filled with so many mixed memories and these rooms have changed my life on both good and horrible ways.

Thw below photos shows one of my today best mescaline producing Cacti (T. Bridgesii SS02 X Juuls Giant)
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Some more T. Bridgesii with what appears to be the Rust Mold. Mainly found on my Echinopsis lageniformis (Bridgesii) Cacti.
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First the etiolation made me wince, now it's the sunburn - out of the frying pan and into the fire (or something). We can only hope that this battering some of the plants are receiving will encourage them to increase their alkaloid content :ROFLMAO: At least your Stetsonia coryne is looking reasonably happy.

Overall, I can entirely sympathise with your situation - my cacti should have been put out in time for a nice, thick thunderstorm today but I missed the window of opportunity once more, and tomorrow will be quite sunny again. At least there's virtually zero chance of it freezing in my part of the world for the next few months - although a couple of days ago we had to hurry to protect some herb seedlings from a severe downpour and hailstorm that briefly flooded our garden! I may have to go for the alternative strategy of taking the sides off my conservatory, since I built it with that in mind anyhow. If it gets too sunny I can rig up a shade cloth, so maybe I should give myself a bit more credit for my preparedness than I have done up to this point.

Now, where did I leave that potassium bicarbonate?
 
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First the etiolation made me wince, now it's the sunburn - out of the frying pan and into the fire (or something). We can only hope that this battering some of the plants are receiving will encourage them to increase their alkaloid content :ROFLMAO: At least your Stetsonia coryne is looking reasonably happy.

Overall, I can entirely sympathise with your situation - my cacti should have been put out in time for a nice, thick thunderstorm today but I missed the window of opportunity once more, and tomorrow will be quite sunny again. At least there's virtually zero chance of it freezing in my part of the world for the next few months - although a couple of days ago we had to hurry to protect some herb seedlings from a severe downpour and hailstorm that briefly flooded our garden! I may have to go for the alternative strategy of taking the sides off my conservatory, since I built it with that in mind anyhow. If it gets too sunny I can rig up a shade cloth, so maybe I should give myself a bit more credit for my preparedness than I have done up to this point.

Now, where did I leave that potassium bicarbonate?
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I'm wondering about the battering and alkaloid content as well.... one of these I might be able to pull a Kashs A/B on. I've already extract from this cacti using kashs tek, and got some exceptional results.

I've got a bunch of chips from this battered SS02 X Juuls Giant. Not sure how much material I'll have once dried.

Wondering what the minimum cactus material would be needed to get some data ;using Kashs A/B pertaining to neglect and abuse and alkaloid content. Because kine have been through the shit. I'd like to think I'll have roughly 20G dry of this particular cacti.

I do believe I posted in one of kashs threads with data from some past Extracts with this particular specimen. I'm itching to break out the glass been a few years

I get roughly 4 months of growth . And that includes hardening off and prepping for dormancy. Can be a hard grown in these parts. Light supplementation can help greatly but gotta use some big lights to make it feesabke 2000watts of HPS/MH combo seemed to work good for me in the past.

At least i got them outdoors this week, they should be good to go when the full sun comes.

Hopefully I'll be able to get my plants sorted this spring/summer and back on track
 
I guess one of the main things to bear in mind is not to throw away any rotten offcuts as sometimes they can turn out to be surprisingly potent. An A/B extraction would definitely be advised there, or at least some extra careful rounds of recrystallisation after a CIELO (if it even proved feasible) just in case of mycotoxins.

I'll be looking at 5 or so months of grow time howsoever I manage with the cacti this year. Even if November turns out relatively warm, as it does sometimes, the light levels are already way down by then. That said, I've got by fairly well with a couple of LED floodlights at around 40W apiece, plus a small heater on a frost-stat. Apart from the two problem cacti mentioned earlier, I only lost a non-precious commercial mini-opuntia last winter, which was sat in a draughty spot, plus a loph came down with sudden rot last week but it was only a smallish one. This last one was, again, probably a ventilation/humidity issue - my lophs deserve their own nice breeze setting up, for all the abuse I've put them through. They still reward me with lovely flowers each year, however.

Anyhow, give your plants a month and I'm sure they'll be rockin' - good job!
 
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