Deceptive practices

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Deceptive practices

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How did this:

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go to this:

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in just two weeks?

(No Viagra jokes please!)




Well, I think I figured it out....

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I fired off an angry e-mail to my local garden center (not HD/Lowe's, a real garden center, so they should know better).....and it's been repotted in a more appropriate mix.

-R
PS I was glad to find out that it's one plant and not two :)
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Post by dustin0352 »

wow thats a pretty sandy mix. Was it really wet? are there any roots left?? and what a bout cialis jokes?? :lol: j/k at least you figured it out and got in a better mix!
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Post by snopuppy13 »

you'd think a garden center should know better,but i was at a nursery around here that normally has some nice plants.
i overheard one of the "garden experts" tell the lady in front of me that if she insisted on repotting her new cactus,the only suitable soil was schultz.
anything else he told her would cause her plant to die because there would be no nutrients.
i just shook my head and took my new plants home.
now i just sit and wait for them to die beacuse i've never used schultz mix. :roll:
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Yikes! Is it rot'n, or just doesnt have any roots?
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Post by DWDogwood »

You might want to do a little cleaning of that sub stem and let it air dry for a spell before setting it in again. Black gunk looks a bit menacing. You wouldn't want rot or fungus to set in. Dust it with a fungicide/root hormone too.
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Post by *Barracuda_52* »

:shock: HOLY COW, straight sand, i hope it does well for you in the better pottin mix. Sometimes people just use sand for a top dress, but not the whole pot.
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Post by Saguaro123 »

Doesn't look good Lancer. A F. cylindraceus I got from Vegas was potted in straight sand so I had to un-pot it so it won't rot.
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Post by vlani »

Sand is actually not so bad for the pot media, but you better have a large and deep clay pot and water carefully. Sand is a common grow media for the wild plants
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snopuppy13 wrote:i just shook my head and took my new plants home.now i just sit and wait for them to die beacuse i've never used schultz mix. :roll:
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Yeah, somebody should tell all those habitat plants growing out of cracks in bare rock that they have no business living
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snopuppy13 wrote: now i just sit and wait for them to die beacuse i've never used schultz mix. :roll:

...and I can't even get schultz mix here!! :roll:

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Post by cali farmer »

Good thing those helpful people are around to tell stupid people what to think!

I go to ANY nursery and i end up schooling the employees when i went to find info about soemthing, or a specific product. Jeez, And none will hire me because i have no retail experience.

If only my chances for employment were based on my skills and hard work, instead of complete BS and paperwork.
I guess that's why i'm building my own business!

Sorry if that was off-topic, I hope you save that one!
I had the same thing happen when i watered a drier cactus the same as my S. American cacti. The soil mix might have been a problem
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That's a very good example of why you should always repot your plants immediately after buying them -- you never know what you might find! :shock:
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vlani wrote:Sand is actually not so bad for the pot media, but you better have a large and deep clay pot and water carefully. Sand is a common grow media for the wild plants
Which ones?

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*Barracuda_47* wrote::shock: HOLY COW, straight sand, i hope it does well for you in the better pottin mix. Sometimes people just use sand for a top dress, but not the whole pot.
straight sand is the staple in this country :wink:
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Post by willpower »

Did you water it? that's probably where you went wrong as you should know by now that cactus grow in sand and don't need water. :lol:
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