10' Cactus broken stem HELP
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Help!! Broken Stem, What to do???
Comments (4)Your Clematis in the ground will be just fine. It will start to grow back in no time. Personally, I've never had much luck with rooting Clematis cuttings. They take months to root both in rooting medium with root hormone applied and water. Then, rooted cuttings are very vulnerable when planted in the ground. I would not bother with Nelly Moser which is cheap and widely available. You can still try it, but expect to wait for 3-6 months to see first roots. Soft new growth is likely to rot....See MoreBroken Plumeria Stem
Comments (5)Well, you'll get a lot of differing opinions about whether or not to cut the flower stem (inflo). During rooting, if leaves start to generate, but then stop, I'd cut it off. Or if you've got lots of other plumeria blooms to enjoy, remove it now. Morning sun might be OK, unless you're in the mid- to upper 90s or low 100s and have very low humidity. In that case I'd probably put it in dappled shade. How long (in inches) is the broken section? The larger the cutting, generally the easier it will be to root...at least anything over 14 inches will be easier than, say, 5-6 inches. Hopefully someone with more 'California' experience will chime in! We have a totally different climate here in Virginia in the summer. We're hazy, hot, and humid, and our night temps usually stay above 65 degrees thru June, July and August. Daytime highs around 80 - 95. So we can usually leave a cutting in full to part sun. The haze cuts down the rays a bit. And we also get rain, so we have to keep cuttings protected from too much moisture. But the humidity is so high that we rarely have to water the soil. They'll root in 'humid' soil just fine!...See MoreCactus stem broke!
Comments (5)As Karen suggested, you would need to lift potted plant when watering out of the sand, or excess water will just sit at the bottom and will, possibly, cause rot. If "thingy" is a root and not a piece of torn flesh, plant is starting to grow roots where it was broken. So cut if off cleanly and completely (not the root, just the stem) and stick into well draining mix. Original stem should grow a branch or few from broken top. Plant should be receiving good amount of light in order not to etiolate....See MorePossible Cactus Root Rot Help!
Comments (13)I went ahead and repotted it, as it was starting to spread and get worse in just 24 hours. Found a smaller plastic pot and just removed the bottom piece, so the holes are exposed. Going to keep looking for the perlite for the future to try mixing it in like you suggested. Upon unearthing the roots, I did find a lot of brown at the bottom that I’m thinking was there for a while. It did indeed look too low in the soil, so I made sure it was higher on repotting and that more dirt was underneath it. The base of the long curly piece was really brown and soft so I cut that above the brown where it is still green inside, and also cut off the small stems away from the part of the roots that went bad. I have some ground cinnamon for cook that I can use, so I will give that a try. I had it on the deck with direct sunlight earlier today and a few days back, so sunburn might have contributed. Going to stick with the shaded deck. The one with direct sunlight gets hot and is exposed to the light for most of the day. The other one gets a lot of nice shade from a huge maple tree next to it, so isn’t nearly as hot. I’m doing some reading on propagating the cuts. If I have it right, they need to sit for a few weeks until they callus over, then just placed shallow in small pots for a few months, to grow roots? I have this fear they will dry out if cut and not in soil, but that is just because this is my first time trying this. I put the repotted parts on the floor next to the glass door, so hopefully it will do better there and get much more light. Good to know they are so hardy! It can get down to 50* at night here, but doesn’t normally reach the 40s until fall. Here is what the bad roots looked like and the brown spot on the one piece. Probably a lot of unknown water-retaning overtime, as you mentioned: Some the pieces around the main stalk are not quite able to hold there own, so I used some stakes and loosely placed Velcro pieces to hold them up. It does seem to look much healthier repotted. I am wondering if I should keep the long piece that long, or cut it into 2, since it's curled and won't be able to stay up on it's own when potted....See MoreLester Duncan
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