I’m gonna try anyways. Should I apply rooting hormone to a fresh cut or wait until it’s calloused over?
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Wait for it to callous then apply rooting hormone
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I just set the calloused cactus on dry soil and they always shot roots from neglect.
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I’ve seen it be done.
Weird what chance is it I’m trying to do the same thing today! To save a cactus over had for years it threw a new cactus and the old one is dyinf
So just slice the old one off and place in dry dirt …how long before I water it
This is off topic but anyone ever seen a watermelon explode…last night about 2am I hear something so I go investigate and the water melon just sitting in the washroom had exploded and I mean w a lil force! What a mess to clean up! Looked like brains exploded all over the place
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That’s kinda common growing watermelons. Your watermelon probably had some bacteria and just the right amount of heat.
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I had that happen when I left Pillsbury biscuits in a hot car. I think there was a Mythbusters about it.
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How did it explode?
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The outside still looked perfect and I thought being inside cool house would keep it from going bad…I mean it’s been setting there a week. The insides turned all to water and I’m assuming some kind microbes or something that cause maybe CO2 to fill the inside…it’s like it just turned the inside to a mush and boom
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I wouldnt use hormone for cactus .
At each spine node roots will form on contact with moist soil . Takes about a week. With fresh cuttings let it callus up for a week then plant. Also cactus loves calcium and doesnt like nitrogen .
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I second this!
Also don’t “slice” the cactus, “pluck” the new shoot and take as much of the bottom node as possible.
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Heroin. You ever see the ‘this is your brain on drugs’ commercial?
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