Who’s been eating Cheetos?
Now I’m back on the good plant mama train & have moved them to more light, my cacti are doing things they’ve not done before!
So next cacti question - has my cactus been eating Cheetos at night? Started smoking? Dyed it’s hair? Is this good or bad?
Sorry about posting so many questions but I believe that #KnowledgeIsPlantPower!
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So next cacti question - has my cactus been eating Cheetos at night? Started smoking? Dyed it’s hair? Is this good or bad?
Sorry about posting so many questions but I believe that #KnowledgeIsPlantPower!
#HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #SucculentLove #CactusClique #WhatFreshHellisThis #UKGreggers
5ft to light, direct
3” pot with drainage
Last watered 3 years ago
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@MothGoblin yes they grow hair.
Discoloring. In most cases, cacti plants will start to lose their natural color as a sign of stress and strain. Depending on where the actual problem is coming from, the discoloring can begin at the top end of stem segments or from the base of the plant.
Have you checked the roots, it could be root bound and needs to be repotted.
Discoloring. In most cases, cacti plants will start to lose their natural color as a sign of stress and strain. Depending on where the actual problem is coming from, the discoloring can begin at the top end of stem segments or from the base of the plant.
Have you checked the roots, it could be root bound and needs to be repotted.
Sorry I know nothing about cacti but your post made me literally lol 😂 haha I wish all question posts were this entertaining. #sneakycactus #cheetocactus
@KikiGoldblatt This isn’t a loss of colour, Kristy, it is new colour to the plant. If you get me? @RJG More photos for you, tho if this attention goes to Lidl Boy’s head and this saffron dandruff spreads I’ll be after you! Wasn’t going to unpot him yet, promise 🪬
@MothGoblin I’m curious what those little black things are on the fuzz, maybe they poop Cheeto dust.
@Nataliesplants Thank you, Natalie 🤙 At 50 I still tend to think more like a 13 year old boy who likes lateral thinking with a heavy sarcasm fertiliser 🌵🔫💚 Pleased to have made someone laugh today 🪬
@Jilliebeanstalk sadly I think it’s just potting medium that I dusted it with while moving it with others. Neither my trusty makeup brush or my air puffer could shift it, so it stays!
If it is poop then he can leart to wipe, I’ve had him for just shy of a year and he was no baby when I got him. I’m so over that stage 😭🚼!! 🪬
If it is poop then he can leart to wipe, I’ve had him for just shy of a year and he was no baby when I got him. I’m so over that stage 😭🚼!! 🪬
@FirstCanna I hadn’t thought of that. I guess the hair could act as a sunblock, like lanugo, & the powder like farina? Smart thinking, Stacey! 🪬
Waddya think @SirLiquorice? @RJG Glad you think he looks healthy. Not bad for a £2 last year!! 🪬
Waddya think @SirLiquorice? @RJG Glad you think he looks healthy. Not bad for a £2 last year!! 🪬
@DesertRainey I did, but here in the UK ‘sunnier’ is a moving target, especially in October. Looked like we’d have a nice day today but we only had about 2hrs of sun on the other side of the house.
I line in a fairly steep & narrow valley where the house faces west with the garden to the east finishing higher than the roof! The walls are up to 40” thick as some of the house is from the late 1500’s/early 1600’s, so really not a huge suntrap.
Do you think I should move it back to the east side again? 🪬
I line in a fairly steep & narrow valley where the house faces west with the garden to the east finishing higher than the roof! The walls are up to 40” thick as some of the house is from the late 1500’s/early 1600’s, so really not a huge suntrap.
Do you think I should move it back to the east side again? 🪬
@SirLiquorice Thank you for your patient reply.
Is rust a fungi? I moved him from the only place he’s ever sat. No new plants had been introduced to there & he had this colouring when I moved him.
Oh bum. I guess it’s quarantine for Lidl Boy then? @FirstCanna As long as his undercarriage survives!! 🪬
Is rust a fungi? I moved him from the only place he’s ever sat. No new plants had been introduced to there & he had this colouring when I moved him.
Oh bum. I guess it’s quarantine for Lidl Boy then? @FirstCanna As long as his undercarriage survives!! 🪬
@FirstCanna The rust or orange spots on the cactus are caused by 1) rust fungus or 2) red spider mites or 3) fungal scabs. @MothGoblin
@SirLiquorice I’ve looked using my 30x jewellery loupe & can’t see movement at all. (For once being a silversmith was useful for plants 🤣).
I’ll try a neem spray & hope that does something positive.
Thanks again, oh font of all cacti knowledge & true teacher! Can’t say how much I appreciate your help 🪬
I’ll try a neem spray & hope that does something positive.
Thanks again, oh font of all cacti knowledge & true teacher! Can’t say how much I appreciate your help 🪬
@MothGoblin if you can find bonide 8 locally that has sulfur in it. That seems to help. That’s what I used on my rusty cactus.
@FirstCanna I would still bring it to the body shop just to see the look on their face when you bring in a cactus
@FirstCanna be like look it has rust on it can’t you buff it out? That’s the one in the pic that obviously had rust when I bought it. It might have gone away. It was being neglected at the nursery because it was one they have sitting there for 15-20 years and it had never been repotted. They didn’t want to sell any of them. They have a few like this and some are bigger and totally busted out the pots. It was busting out of the pot also and the soil turned into a rock basically. After I sprayed it a few times with bonide 8 and repotted it the pup turned green again and the cactus and pup started growing noticeably bigger. It’s hanging off the balcony so it’s hard to get to but I think the rust may be gone now or it’s much better looking at least.
@RJG @KikiGoldblatt looks like it’s cactus rust. It can be treated. As long as the immune system gets stronger it should go away. Sulfur should help. Bonide 8 is good for that. At least it doesn’t appear to be a bad case of rust. Maybe moving locations and humidity might have been the cause. Also mamillaria and certain ones may be more prone to rust. At least my cactus with rust was also a mammillaria.
@FirstCanna yeah it was flowering a lot for awhile. Kept getting a ring of flowers. And it’s one of the only mammillaria I have with white flowers.
@DesertRainey I had to look it up after seeing the comments about the buildings from the 15 and 1600’s. We have some buildings here from late 1700’s with 13” thick limestone walls downtown but nothing like over there. Not even close. San Antonio is still much younger.
@MothGoblin that’s cool you’re a silversmith. I always liked collecting silver coins and bars and stuff like that.
@SirLiquorice What stunning photos and countryside. Let’s take a #gregTrip to Dorset 😀. I lived my life in the Seattle area, much younger. @MothGoblin what a lovely place to live 🏴
@DesertRainey it’s not as picturesque as @SirLiquorice’s photos but most of those places are within an hour’s drive from here.
It’s a house with history- a witch lived here & it was the village shop until the 80’s.
It’s mainly constructed with Cob (mud, straw & sand with lime render over it) some brick & flint work with a thatched roof over 2/3.
The photos are 1. A very early photograph of the postmistress on the doorstep of the 1700’s extension. 2.The bloody big hole under my bathroom window where the lime render had collapsed! 3. With all of the concrete (modern) render removed. My bedroom is closest to camera behind the 1700’s added brick support wall. 4. How it looks at the front now, new ground floor windows & doorway porch added. 5. Me & my darling Benny on a daybed at the top of the garden. That was 2009, a year after we bought the house. God, I miss him.
Yes, it’s smack bang on the road but it isn’t a busy one. Main concerns are the tractors, combine harvesters & huge trucks that go rattling by!
It’s a house with history- a witch lived here & it was the village shop until the 80’s.
It’s mainly constructed with Cob (mud, straw & sand with lime render over it) some brick & flint work with a thatched roof over 2/3.
The photos are 1. A very early photograph of the postmistress on the doorstep of the 1700’s extension. 2.The bloody big hole under my bathroom window where the lime render had collapsed! 3. With all of the concrete (modern) render removed. My bedroom is closest to camera behind the 1700’s added brick support wall. 4. How it looks at the front now, new ground floor windows & doorway porch added. 5. Me & my darling Benny on a daybed at the top of the garden. That was 2009, a year after we bought the house. God, I miss him.
Yes, it’s smack bang on the road but it isn’t a busy one. Main concerns are the tractors, combine harvesters & huge trucks that go rattling by!
@SirLiquorice Re Silversmithing - I’m trained in traditional bench jewellery making, so all from wire and sheet silver, no silver clay here!
I’ve not done much since Aug 2017 when my late husband was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Building work on the house means my workshop is still full of ‘stuff’ but I must get back to it! I need the dosh apart from anything else 🤣
As well as the usual I love making stuff out of antique (hallmarked) cutlery. I have a business that I need to reenergise & restart 😳
I have already got most of the pieces for a Native Wildflower collection done. Five flowers to start with.
I’m thinking of branching out tho & making pieces based on the most loved houseplants. Waddya think? 🪬
I’ve not done much since Aug 2017 when my late husband was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Building work on the house means my workshop is still full of ‘stuff’ but I must get back to it! I need the dosh apart from anything else 🤣
As well as the usual I love making stuff out of antique (hallmarked) cutlery. I have a business that I need to reenergise & restart 😳
I have already got most of the pieces for a Native Wildflower collection done. Five flowers to start with.
I’m thinking of branching out tho & making pieces based on the most loved houseplants. Waddya think? 🪬
@MothGoblin that’s so crazy to see the big hole 🕳️ under the window. Lasted a good amount of years before needing repairs. When the walls are 40” thick like a fortress or castle almost, it definitely lasts and is good insulation from the weather.
@SirLiquorice silver clay is silver particles in a binder. You shape it, imprint etc then burn the binder away. I’d consider using it for imprints as I can no longer do etching as the workshop where I rented bench space for larger items of work closed due to covid. But the traditional skills are my way as I too believe that it looks better and is more honest work. But that’s just my old ass opinion!
@SirLiquorice Losing him was beyond hard. Boxing Day 2018. Typical bloody vicar, screwing up Christmas! Although I was only 46, and B just 55, we had been together for 29 years having met when 17 & 26 in a Hell’s Angels pub. I knew within two weeks we’d be together forever & we were - for his anyway. He was loved by everyone, a real diamond (I was the rough!). Please excuse the photos, but I love bragging about my amazing man! Pic 1 is from when we moved to Dorset from London in 2005. Pic 2 is the first one of us together, xmas 1989. 3 is the last photo of him well, Aug 2017. 4 is the night I had my head shaved in the pub in the village. It raised £6845 for Prostate Cancer UK. Donations came from all over the world as Benny Hazlehurst was loved the world over Feb 2018.
It took him in 15 months, insanely aggressive but he’d probably had it, silently, for years.
He was the best & we talk about him every day. Excuse the self indulgence, Sir🪬
It took him in 15 months, insanely aggressive but he’d probably had it, silently, for years.
He was the best & we talk about him every day. Excuse the self indulgence, Sir🪬
@MothGoblin those are awesome pics. I know some people here really into motorcycles. So it was a Hell’s Angels Pub? Crazy how they are all over the world.