🐒 propagating my monkey tail cactus (cleistocactus colademononis) + emergency repot! 3 month results 

I’m sure as a creator making these long-term videos isn’t easy, but man as a viewer I love them. Thank you for your dedication!

I love that weirdo

Mine is about 5 years old, I give pieces away once a year. It's about 3 feet long at the longest pieces. It pipes out 3 ish arms a year. It flowers basically non-stop from May to September . It's in a terracotta, that sits in a basket with some of my other hanging guys. It's in full sun mothers day to Halloween and I water it maybe 3 times once it comes back in for winter. I'm in zone 7. It is very content in unheated sunroom in an east facing window.. it goes down to 40 when it's really cold out.

I’m not even a cactus girl but I am so invested in this journey omg

I was clapping when the mother plant was revealed with all the new offshoots. Love it! Such a satisfying journey

Can you do an update on this cactus? I was so inspired by your monkey tail that I got my own!

It’s always a good day when Fern posts 🥰

I was just thinking about adding this plant to my collection. I'm glad to see they're easy to work with.

I'm amazed by the roots this guy puts out! It makes it feel so rewarding to see root growth like that.

How is your monkey tail doing now? I just found one, and I’m so excited!

This was totally my experience with my trailing cactuses! Not seeing as much growth on top but when I checked their roots found it basically super root bound! My monkey tail grows from both the base and the tips; my hypothesis is that it's about the type of cutting it is... Or root space in the soil? Haha 🤷 All learning together :D

Mine has grown 4-5 shoots (if that's the word) from the base for the last two years, but it's recently got its first shoots from the tip of the main tail.

The growth in each update blew my freaking mind!! The roots too!! 🤯🤯🤯 like that thing is growing so fast for a cactus! I’m not a cacti loving typa person but I’m highly considering adding this one to my collection ☺️

Mine was growing so nicely as one long tail until I accidentally bumped the tip off. Now it has three new little babes coming out, which I’m honestly not a fan of aesthetically! I like your idea of harvesting the juvenile growths each year off a wonky mother and planting anew. A new spring tradition 🌵😁

I'm back rewatching on Nov 19 2023 because my props went to mush...and now I have no monkeytail 😣 just wanted to see what a beauty looks like..

I love this plant and it's funky nature. I say keep it growing and chop it in the spring

Ah! The baby monkey tails are so cute!!

Wow, I can't believe how quickly that grew! I want one now!

omg i love how the tip of the cactus is growing three thumbs. i honestly think it has more personality with it

I loved this video. That Monkey Tail Cactus is perfect for Halloween now 😁 It is so cool! 🙉

Happy birthday to monkey tails and me!

I really liked that you showed the progress over time in one video. It was worth it, keeping lips zipped about this cacti for so long 😅 I have two MTCs and they are so beautiful. I got them like two years ago, I think. They are full and getting long, but the arms are not as thick as your mother MTC cacti.

Looks amazing. So fun! Didn’t know I loved this plant, but now I know and have put it on my wish list!

i loved this video! i want to see more of this in the future, that monkey tail in a few years will be amazing. Mine is very very tiny, is a cutting that someone give to me months ago, so for now i have to be patient, but i like a lot this journey.

It’s so cute, also , I feel like you should cut the tips off all the cactus so it forces them to push babies out from the base, wait a year, and boom, super full monkey tail!!😂

I'm watching this again on Oct 7 2023 and I am so impressed on how big your monkey tail is now! It gives me hope for my single "ringlet" tail 😂😂 and I just LOVE your hair in this video 💚

I would have just put it in the big pot. They root so easy and then you won't have to worry about repotting it again. Mine is about a year old now and looks like your smaller bits. It's been so easy to grow. It's in a dappled south window and it also has a growlight over it. I'm having a battle with mealy bugs at the moment though

Honestly I love how wild it looks haha. This was a really fun video to see all the progress, I was shocked to see those baby tail roots!

Love these (unintentional) progress videos! Way to care for your monkey tail!! So much growth in so little time! 😍

Even now it’s almost 5pm and 100 degrees out with 17% humidity in mid September 😢

I bought my first monkey tail this spring. I have enjoyed watching you. I see the first thing I need to do is get a better soil mix. I have to much soil in mine. One of the tails I bought actually got small! So I am trying to see what I can do to bring it back. Thank you!!

I'm amazed at how fast it grows!!! Great video!

Great video! I was just gifted some pups and am truly excited to learn about it from your video!

The plant looks like Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons!!! 😂

This is my dream plant but I’ve been too intimidated to purchase and this is really making me want one. I’d love to see more updates, I’m invested 😍

Your hair is so frigging cute! 25:57

I find that chopsticks work great to anchor plants

You are so funny😂 "weird frankenstein mutant", also your hair looks really cute in the last clip! Thanks again for a great video

Day gets better with your video❤️

I'm not a cactus girl but I love Monkey Tail. I started mine from two tiny cuttings from my auntie's big Monkey Tail and now it has filled it's pot. mine produces narrow shoots, I guess because the poor thing is always thirsty🙈it's in my balcony in almost full sun in a tiny terracotta pot and dries within a day in +35°C summer days here and I'm too lazy to water her more than once every ten days or so. I have to bring it back inside before it gets too cold and give him a much bigger pot. BTW mine looked wierd too but when the babies which grow at base get taller and bigger, they will cover the base of other shoots and it will look more uniform

Hi Fern that monkey is awesome ☺️☺️

I love how your arrangement came out. Those roots look strong

That looks like a wienner Hahaha but i love it

Hi I’m glad I came across your video. I brought a 3 inch monkey tail cactus cutting a few months ago and planted it in the smallest pot ever. After watching this video I think it’s time to repot into a slightly larger pot for the rest of the summer

Yay!!!! I just went to the local nursery and found one! I’m so so happy!!! It looks alittle quirky, but I love

I enjoyed the video, I’m sure it was the soil you mixed, great job.

Wow this plant is doing fantastic! You're making me want one

I cannot cope with this plant. I know if I brought that cactus home I would get some naughty comments about it.

Yay! I love propagation videos with results, it's so satisfying and also very helpful! I love your plant and think it looks cool!

My monkey tail splits

I do really love this type of video, it’s cool to see all the updates and progress clips combined 💚🌵

I bought a monkey tail which snapped during transport, a video told me to put fungicide powder to the snapped mother which seemed to continue rotting(wet & decaying) as compared to try to leave to dry & callus in the past which didn’t work for me, so now I’m cutting the wet rot off the mother to try start callusing in the the sun that I get through the window..any other tips to encourage the callus process besides putting some paper towel on the end lol? As for the cutting end, I was advised to put rooting hormone power on the end (as leaving out in the sun to callus also didn’t work for me) seems to have stop the rotting as far as I can see. Can I get some advise around my situation as this is the 3rd attempt to propagating this beautiful succulent. Many thanks, Jarrad x

I don’t own one nor am I a cactus girl but this was a great video! Favorite yet I think! That growth was so exciting and rewarding even if it wasn’t my own. I squealed with you! I do like the idea of putting all the babies together for a more uniform plant but I think I would leave the babies attached to the mother plant at the base. Maybe trim the three new ones off again. I still cannot believe that growth in such a short time! Fantastic video!

This is such a weird and cool cactus haha. Cacti are long term projects, for sure.

This is awesome! I've been planning on propping my golden rat tail cactus and seeing the growth from your monkey tail got me really excited. Can't wait! 😃 still hoping I could find a monkey tail in Ontario though. 😅

Nos mostre como está a planta atualmente.

So cute and an absolute beast! I literally 😲 and Oh-em-gee when you pulled out the second propagation with all the roots! Talk about root porn 😂 I love all of your videos but I really did enjoy the format of this video with the long span of time/documentation over a spread out time style. 💚

By far my favorite plant in your collection! Your monkey tail has so much character…it’s so cool! 😎 I have one & mine doesn’t grow roots like yours, I’m in awe 🤩

Update, update! 🤩

I need to do this to mine so badly. And I am loving these journey of a repot/prop plant! Keep them coming 😊

.y monkey tail is huge! I'm trying to get it to flower

Oh boy! I was so excited when you showed the babies growing from the base of the Monkey Tail!! Love it🙂

Did u make a 2023 update video? I’m having trouble finding it if u did

Wow!! This cactus is amazing!! I might need to find one of those. With cacti (and succulents), you can reduce the root ball by about half every year. I do it with all of my cacti and they don't mind.

Yes, please keep doing these long update videos! I'm sure they're a lot more difficult to make, but it is so satisfying to get invested in these plants and then have immediate updates. Also, you have the cutest hair in the world omg lol

I can't wait for the spring 2024 update on this plant!

I've had one, (well 5 tails), for a couple months now. There was 3 close to the same size and 2 laonger, one of which is lager than the other. I have them now in a hanging pot outside on our West facing deck. There has been some new growth, but not like yours. But then we have had weeks with excessive heat and weeks with more rainfall than usual. So I've been thinking that could be why there hasn't been a lot of growth, yet. I think you should level yours in the same pot even after you up-size it. The qwerky ness is part of the plant, well that's why we got ours.

I loved that video, but I think your pot is way too small for all those Monkey Tails.

I loved this idea and I love that funky new growth. So cool seeing them put out all those babies

i only have a lowes and walmart (&dollar stores) around--- and their soil choices are limited. and i dont have the patience to wait on stuff to come from amazon..... so i just pot all of my stuff in a potting soil/perlite/orchid bark/osmocote mix. Depending on what im planting depends on how heavy handed i am with the perlite+orchid bark 😂 i just need to order some stuff off amazon to keep on hand.

I like her tattoos and her OBEY tshirt. But also I just bought a monkey tail, and I need as much info as possible…

THE CLAW That's all i could think of when seeing the 2.5 month growth update 🤣

Ooh, I want one

just set the 2 baby pots inside of a larger empty pot. then the two babies tip over, they will lean against the walls of the larger pot and not fall over. it works like magic. 😊 I also hung the bigger pot in a macrame hanger so I can up-pot for years.

I would suggest a very deep decretive pot perhaps to see if the plants focus their energy on making roots or making tails. Honestly, if they become root bound that quickly, then how do you put them in just a hanging basket? Perhaps they enjoy being root bound?

I knocked mine off shelf. I just stuck it back in. I didn't wait for it to calus over. It's good. Mine doesn't grow from base either.

Does anyone know why cactuses segment? I have an orchid cactus and several baby dragon fruits. Why did the monkey tail stop growing and then sprout two more tails? Sorry if this is a weird question.

Nice video love this cactus. But I learnt that these cacti don't need large pots. I've seen huge huge specimens growing fine out of very small pots. Mine is totally root bound and is growing so fast. Also in the wild in Bolivia they grow of rocky cliff edges.

Just wanted to add that with my MTC I remove about 30% of the root system when I take cuttings and repot. Never had an issue.

Awesome job and a great video. If you feel like experimenting look into grafting. there are people that graft a variety to one cactus. Grafting pumps the growth and from a small piece it should push a few babies. Once ready cut off, callous then root. Monkey tails are awesome, it looks like someone glued the flowers on it. Shame I can't post a pic here. Kinda feel at home here with all the other lovers of this plant

You are overcomplicating things, I feel. Just cut the big chonk very low at the base. It wil sprout more smaller shoots and you'll have a pot full of thinner tails. You can root mama again also and leave her to grow on her own, with the new sprouts she will undoubtedbly form, thus filling up her own pot.

Wow😱What an awesome project. I’d love one of these but I only have east and west facing windows, so don’t think it would get enough light.

Hello. I just purchased three 6 inch tails for the first time and I will be rooting them and planting them in one pot. I want a full and hanging plant. My question is this, after it hardens over for that week and I pot it in soli, when can I water? It will need a drink but I worry about rot under the soil level. How can I know it is safe to water them? Also, can it actually drink without roots?

so propagation requires very little watering or misting? inusuall drench my plants with bottom watering. from so cal area

Leave it and see what happens! I'm so curious! I think there were new growths at the base because you uppotted it and the soil reached higher, the hormones of the part that went under the dirt stimulated new growth - but I might be wrong, maybe both the cuts at the end and the repotting did the trick. Anyway I super like it, I have a few succulents, but not that one, I'll probably get one after seeing your video. I don't like the hairiness but after all it is a funny thing! :)))

Great video. I also have a monkey tail cactus and and keep them east so planning to do the same thing. But they are in plastic pots top heavy. I added pebbles to keep balance. I need to get a few terracotta pot. I have east window normally but last year had them outside getting south and west sun and grew well.🤗🌵 After watching your video I need to think where the plant is going to be placed 🤔

I don’t have this one,but I know yours is taking so well! 👍 💚🌱🌵☘️

How often should the cuttings be watered after they're placed in soil? I've read that monkey tail cactus can be prone to root rot because of over watering.

Muito lindo!!

Love your video:) Would love to see an update from this summer 2023 🌟

A fork works nicely to get a small plant out of the pot without pulling on your plant.

Where can I get your water bottle/mister? Excellent video

What a fun cactus! I love videos like this. Feel free to make more. 😁

And if it’s already crowded you should just put those other ones in a different pot because you still got all those other little pups coming up they’re going to rootup to

Me as an orchid person: where is the flower spike? cacti/succulent people: who is that?

I love this video ! Progress videos are the best ones! Thank you for sharing this whole process with us ❤

Super! Uwielbiam cleistocactus colademonsis!

Your soil mix looks so satisfying haha 🖤 That’s a cool cactus!

Probably need to fill up the soil a little higher not just halfway.

Is it not spikey!!!! The bare hands scare me 😂😂