Hi my "Stoner". I will help you with every tip bout your problem after getting some more info and help-info from others.
Replant your cacti. In mean time check roots. Don't be gentle! Squeeze it, cut with knife or razor. If root is brown beneath or soft without green tissue cut those parts! One third of roots are enough for cacti afterwards survival!
When you put "fertilizer" put only one third of it! Peyote isn't Aloe Vera or Trichoricereus" Peyote lives on third of all others cacti requirements.
Bout rocks.
Rock are fine,
the best substitute for shade. Smaller on soil and 2-3 bigger ones for "bush like" shade(this will allow cacti to be on sun all day). In winter time smaller rocks-gravel have watering accumulating effect but in summer time this effect is reversed. Talking only bout surface layer! My cacti have 30% of small gravel-sand in soil(
this is other matter-in soil sand drain out everything more then cacti needs). So I do not see any connection from other members postings that mentioned problems are to blame those small amount of rocks on the top soil layer. My
Peyos are on (any)sun all day! With those rocks included, for many years and no problems like that. Problems starts if you put it in shade with rocks!!!!(pseudo winter time scheme start to happen).
How much temp is out side is irrelevant! Only if night-morning temp isn't beneath 5C for one week. But last 10 days isn't. We have similar temps.
But if temp doesn't rise above 15C leave out watering time. Wait 2 days
(warmer of course!) And check soil with tooth pick! Every starting grower, but I say every starter PLANT grower check that by this way.
Superb indicator of soil moist. :wink:
I Have before told you what fungi attack, they attack over moisten roots, watering roots in mild of day when your cacti is hot,
this is big shock!,
try by yourself something like that (
Heat yourself on bright sun and then jump into 8 degrees cold water!!
But you can give some fungicide to it but also one third. Everything in one third, MAX HALF!!
MORE QUESTIONS, ASK.
P.M. Cutting is last resort! Do that only if all roots are gone to hell or if your upper part (green head) is brown-rotten on soil layer part in whole diameter of cacti-Peyote.
PEDRO and OTHER TRICHO CACTI LIKE PERUVIAN TORCH ARE SOMETHING ELSE! SO YOU CAN'T APPLY THOSE HELP-TIPS FOR ANY CACTI THEN PEYOTE ONLY. TORCH&PEDRO'S HAVE THEIR OWN SCHEME
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