Can this Cacti be helped?

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keith
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Re: Can this Cacti be helped?

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Hi Steve, yes it will work use just about 1/2 inch on top of your normal soil and place the cut part on it after its dried a little for a week or so. that's what I do. I use rooting powder with fungicide , not sure if its for sale anymore ? Any fungicide should work or even nothing ?

I'm going to cut a over tall mammillaria albicans next growing season and this year I cut two mammillaria carmenae, mammillaria dehertianana and a echinocereus rigidimuss.

And some smaller cactus because of rot a rebutia helosia and a small echinocereus . In the growing season they usually root fast . I lightly spray the cactus then and lightly water. Not enough roots for a full soak that may take a year.
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Steve Johnson
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Re: Can this Cacti be helped?

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keith wrote: Wed Sep 21, 2022 1:38 am Hi Steve, yes it will work use just about 1/2 inch on top of your normal soil and place the cut part on it after its dried a little for a week or so. that's what I do. I use rooting powder with fungicide , not sure if its for sale anymore ? Any fungicide should work or even nothing ?

I'm going to cut a over tall mammillaria albicans next growing season and this year I cut two mammillaria carmenae, mammillaria dehertianana and a echinocereus rigidimuss.

And some smaller cactus because of rot a rebutia helosia and a small echinocereus . In the growing season they usually root fast . I lightly spray the cactus then and lightly water. Not enough roots for a full soak that may take a year.
This is quite helpful -- thanks, Keith! :D
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Re: Can this Cacti be helped?

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keith wrote: Wed Sep 21, 2022 1:38 amI use rooting powder with fungicide , not sure if its for sale anymore ? Any fungicide should work or even nothing ?
I was just cleaning out my garage the past days and came across my two bottles of rooting hormone, so the name was fresh in my mind. Hormex.

https://hormex.com/collections/rooting-powder

Edit: Ahh, I was too fast. Hormex doesn't sell rooting powder with fungicide. Just looked up Rootone and found they dropped EPA registration of their fungicide containing product back in 1991. I didn't go any further.

I don't see why you can't dip or spray the cut surface in fungicide first and then the rooting hormone of choice.
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Re: Can this Cacti be helped?

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jerrytheplater wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:25 pm
jerrytheplater wrote: Sun Sep 18, 2022 2:47 am I leave mine just as he has done
I can't let Steve take all of the blame, I was involved here too! Sorry, it was not malicious in intent.
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