AluminumFoilRobots
gufyg
Hello everyone.
So I've had these three cacti, two terrific T. bridgesii and one wonderful T. pachanoi, for about 3 and a half years. They've had a few challenges in that time - from safely rooted in S. california to be uprooted and taken halfway across the continent (not properly stored with wet newspaper for the rootball or ANYTHING
:thumb_dow ). They were out of my control for the better part of a year, as we were travelling the country and couldn't lug three cacti around obviously... left with my dad they did ok but he didn't put much effort into them other than watering them every few weeks. He liked 'em but he didn't have time or energy at the end of the day at that point to mess with them much. I would visit every few months, and would baby them - amend the soil, repot if necessary, talk to them ,plant-lover stuff - but it would only be for a week or two... I felt like a parent who lost custody of their children or something!
Well finally, last summer I found out that the metal rod holding my lumbar spine in place as it was supposed to be fusing was broken (most certainly due to a mixture of my tobacco use, which inhibits bone growth esp. in the spine, and my general hard way of living with goodly amounts of manual labor in which I rarely considered my spine). This convinced me to settle down and find a place to live with my wife. So, after some time, we discovered a lovely place in a beautiful mountainous area and decided to call it home. Well, this means many things for us, but in this thread it means I got my cacti back!
I had them indoors under a 1,000 watt light for a month or so while winter wore off, and when spring had fully sprung I put them outside with many other potted plants - behind the safety of goat-proof panels... Oh yeah. my goats.
I have two VERY friendly LaMancha Goats. They are basically our pets with benefits, as they each give off around 1/3-1/2 a gallon of milk per day. I really enjoy having them- most of the time. Don't get me wrong, I love these goats, but I've heard a good addage - most people choose between goats and gardens. Well, not us. In fact, we are constructing a goat-proof fence around all our cultivation-zones and leaving them some meadow. BUT, some days, I really dislike these goats. They DESTROY any plant you really want to have (except potatoes) and WRECK gardens. They are very smart and will work together to get into basically anywhere you don't want them to be. Like the day they ate half my achuma.
They exploited a 5 minute timeframe in which I accidentally left the panels unchained, got in, and ran amuck tearing up so many cool plants, most uncool of which was the fact that they ATE HALF MY ACHUMA!! it was pitiful, cut an entire year and half worth of growth right off, barely deterred by the long but still thin spikes.
SO, to the point of this thread- I have a very torn-up piece of achuma, which has several bite marks all over, with two areas of scab... How would yall replant it? I was thinking sideways might be good, but then would it be better to plant upright? If I did do upright would pups form on the top-side scab, or must those be induced somehow? This piece is definitely salvageable, and would probably live either way, it's just that I've never even taken a cutting so this is new to me.
I appreciate any replies!
So I've had these three cacti, two terrific T. bridgesii and one wonderful T. pachanoi, for about 3 and a half years. They've had a few challenges in that time - from safely rooted in S. california to be uprooted and taken halfway across the continent (not properly stored with wet newspaper for the rootball or ANYTHING
:thumb_dow ). They were out of my control for the better part of a year, as we were travelling the country and couldn't lug three cacti around obviously... left with my dad they did ok but he didn't put much effort into them other than watering them every few weeks. He liked 'em but he didn't have time or energy at the end of the day at that point to mess with them much. I would visit every few months, and would baby them - amend the soil, repot if necessary, talk to them ,plant-lover stuff - but it would only be for a week or two... I felt like a parent who lost custody of their children or something! Well finally, last summer I found out that the metal rod holding my lumbar spine in place as it was supposed to be fusing was broken (most certainly due to a mixture of my tobacco use, which inhibits bone growth esp. in the spine, and my general hard way of living with goodly amounts of manual labor in which I rarely considered my spine). This convinced me to settle down and find a place to live with my wife. So, after some time, we discovered a lovely place in a beautiful mountainous area and decided to call it home. Well, this means many things for us, but in this thread it means I got my cacti back!
I had them indoors under a 1,000 watt light for a month or so while winter wore off, and when spring had fully sprung I put them outside with many other potted plants - behind the safety of goat-proof panels... Oh yeah. my goats.
I have two VERY friendly LaMancha Goats. They are basically our pets with benefits, as they each give off around 1/3-1/2 a gallon of milk per day. I really enjoy having them- most of the time. Don't get me wrong, I love these goats, but I've heard a good addage - most people choose between goats and gardens. Well, not us. In fact, we are constructing a goat-proof fence around all our cultivation-zones and leaving them some meadow. BUT, some days, I really dislike these goats. They DESTROY any plant you really want to have (except potatoes) and WRECK gardens. They are very smart and will work together to get into basically anywhere you don't want them to be. Like the day they ate half my achuma.
They exploited a 5 minute timeframe in which I accidentally left the panels unchained, got in, and ran amuck tearing up so many cool plants, most uncool of which was the fact that they ATE HALF MY ACHUMA!!
it was pitiful, cut an entire year and half worth of growth right off, barely deterred by the long but still thin spikes. SO, to the point of this thread- I have a very torn-up piece of achuma, which has several bite marks all over, with two areas of scab... How would yall replant it? I was thinking sideways might be good, but then would it be better to plant upright? If I did do upright would pups form on the top-side scab, or must those be induced somehow? This piece is definitely salvageable, and would probably live either way, it's just that I've never even taken a cutting so this is new to me.
I appreciate any replies!
