@@nelsondarwinplantyard638 🤣🤣 and I treasure them and I watch them carefully every day until miraculously they die! I live in Canada so it’s tricky with throwing them on the roof🤣. Besides I tend to overwater out of love and care…. Thank you for the response.
I'm both a liker and subscriber from Lake Charles, LA. This is the next plant I will get for my collection. Online there are several outlets that sell them, so aquiring one shouldn't be a problem.
👏 Challenge Can you air layer multiple pads off a mature plant Maybe opening skin layer Leting that cut dry Then wrapping cut in soil I tried on one loose pad. I just wanted to cut skin acrosss and the whole pad cracked in half
actually the air layering is done for those plants whose cutting cannot be propagated easily like olive or lemon plant. For cactus even a pad can survive months in hot dry region...and on suitable condition it will start rooting....
@nelsondarwinplantyard638 i wanted to propagate a full set of pads instead of starting from one pad. The result was everything started curving. All pads started curving and dont think it will root with multiple pads because its energy is going towards new leaf growth
@nelsondarwinplantyard638 some people have mentioned that a cactus pad next to a fence starts growing air roots. Maybe under certain conditions, you can trick the leaf to root while still on the main plant. Im guessing a callous and air layer style.. or just straight into the dirt with multiple leaves even if it curves it will root maybe or no callous and moist dirt still wrapped around leaf. I have started some opuntia cochenillifera from single pads before. 1 year and a half and they are at 2-3ft height
Interesting. It would have also been interesting to see the Mother plant. My peanut Cacti grow like weeds, pups everywhere, dropping off and growing in other plants pots :)
This grows wild on every south-west facing hill near my house, I live in Saskatchewan where it gets to -40c during winter still there’s tons of wild patches of opuntia fragilis here
does cutting it into multiple pieces help it root? I have chopped the top off my mammillaria polythele and its been 4.5 months and no root formation yet. any tips? its slowly losing its mass as its running out of water
It's far better just to snap the pup off by twisting and put hormone powder on the part that's snapped off and dry for 3 days. What ISN'T mentioned here is that you NEED a humid environment. With big cuttings it doesn't matter. With small ones it does. Yoi can do this by putting the pot inside a clear plastic container WITH a lid, and spraying water inside the container and on the inside of the lid. KEEP it closed and in 4 weeks the humidity will cause it to get roots. I have found just the humidity ALONE makes a huge difference. I have done 60 small pups at a time this way with only 1 in 15 not having roots. By small pups I mean things the size of one finger knuckle, sometimes smaller.
