Methods to promote normal growth from monstrose or cristate cacti?

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Mrs.Green
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Methods to promote normal growth from monstrose or cristate cacti?

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I guess most people who buy a monstrose or cristate cactus want it to stay that way( monstrose or cristate), but what if you purchase a monstrose or cristate cactus in the hope of it will revert to normal growth, or at least some normal offsets? Is there any methods to promote normal growth/offsets? Are there any known external factors that will hopefully lead to at least some normal growth? Or is it pure luck if the plant ‘offers’ some normal offsets?
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The only recipe is time, earlier or later they spontaneously give normal growth.
Just this way I buyed some cristate and got normal plants from them when it was difficult to find somwhere normals.
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anttisepp wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 1:15 pm The only recipe is time, earlier or later they spontaneously give normal growth.
Just this way I buyed some cristate and got normal plants from them when it was difficult to find somwhere normals.
Thanks a lot Anttisepp! 🙂 So if I just have patience ( not my most prominent virtue..I have to admit ) there is a fair chance I will get a normal plant in the end.
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It always seemed to me that conditions promoting etiolation also encouraged reversion in crested plants, just anecdotal though.
Growing some succs and cacs in mid/coastal Scotland.
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RorBurg56 wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 11:43 am It always seemed to me that conditions promoting etiolation also encouraged reversion in crested plants, just anecdotal though.
Thank you RorBurg56 ; Interesting and sounds logical, assuming that crested and monstrous growth are less ‘beneficial’ for the plants.
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