Melo rescue
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[quote="TimN"] Most big box stores around here will refund on plants up to a year. I've never done it, but I've been in the return line a number of times behind people with stone dead plants getting their money back.
Snowfella, Bunnings take dead plants within a year, If you fried something just fry it until its really dead then no one be able to tell what it died of. I took an Astrophtum back a few weeks ago.
Snowfella, Bunnings take dead plants within a year, If you fried something just fry it until its really dead then no one be able to tell what it died of. I took an Astrophtum back a few weeks ago.
Guess I should start saving my dockets then, although it would be hard to prove it's a Bunnings plant as one of the first things I do is crack them out of the plastic pot.
@Tim: When, or if, that happends I'll really be diggin into that cephalium for seeds. There's plenty there that I can see but would have to dig little to deep for comfort in order to get out.
That was certainly the case for me. A few days ago I noticed the nice new Melocactus Azureus whose pic I posted a couple months ago, was rottingdaiv wrote:The plant that you paid the most for will be the first to go.
I can't imagine what I did wrong (except perhaps re-potting it). I kept it almost dry and *still* it rotted, apparently from the bottom up. I 'salvaged' the top 4cm or so. Will this root - or just keep rotting?
In contrast the 5cm melo I purchase a year ago still seems happy. (I bought two but one gave up the ghost early on).
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Daiv is correct. About 6 months ago I was doing an experiment on cholla and for some reason all three of the ones that haven't rooted yet are still green and somewhat alive but they haven't produced one ROOT. BTW the only one that did produce roots died because I grew it in pure sand as part of the experiment.
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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Nah, just plain dumb luck I'd say on this save. Way to new in this hobby to really have a good grasp on what I'm doing.
And it could well be either of the 2, had no solid ID when I bought it.
It's now been flowering more or less constantly since that first flower appeared and the cephalium has started growing and colouring up nicely from that dull grey it once was.
Edit: here's 2 new photos of it taken just minutes ago, 3 flowers fully open right now.
And it could well be either of the 2, had no solid ID when I bought it.
It's now been flowering more or less constantly since that first flower appeared and the cephalium has started growing and colouring up nicely from that dull grey it once was.
Edit: here's 2 new photos of it taken just minutes ago, 3 flowers fully open right now.