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Well, the black mold has been fine.  I can't quite remember what I did.. I think I did end up putting some bleach on it.  It's still black, but was growing just fine until.....

A hard freeze came through a couple weeks ago, supposedly the worst one that has ever hit my area, since people have been keeping track at least.  I was away until about a week after the freeze.  A friend told me that the cactus all got covered with ICE... along with everything else, which is a very rare occurence in my area.  Now the cactus all have yellow spots on them and now, a new development, some orange spots mostly around the areoles it seems.  I guess this is the orange rot JRL mentioned?

I guess I will wait and see what happens.. and take it as a lesson learned.  Ice = Enemy of San Pedro.

Very cool.

I was thinking the 4th and 5th images looked like blankets before reading what they were supposed to represent.

If buying a plant from a person who has worked hard to cultivate many plants to in turn provide for many people.. I would be happy and willing to pay ~$10-15 for a rooted plant.

I would have to agree that the $ would be going towards a very magical plant.

Nice pictures!

I wasn't aware of st. johns wort's antibacterial and antiviral properties, interesting.  It doesn't grow wild in my area but I've seen it at a few nurseries.  I'd like to see a hillside of them.

I like the connection of the bright yellow flowers, sucking up the sun, to it's anti-depressive/light-sensitizing effects.  Seems appropriate.

That's what I was afraid of, thanks for the tips.  I may try to cut off the bottom of the stem and see if I can root it from above where the rot is.  I'll post back with my success, or lack thereof.

I have a cutting that sat in water for 3 weeks without showing ANY sign of shooting out roots.  I didn't add any fungicide to the water, but did let it soak in root stimulator for a night before changing the water.  A little up the stem from the water a white fuzz started to develop.  I lightly scraped it off and the stem turned black where I scraped it.  Since no roots started to grow I ended up putting it in soil just a day ago, and noticed quite a bit more fuzz on the stem around where the other fuzz was.   Has anyone else experienced this?  Would rubbing some isopropyl alcohol on it fight it back at all?  Or would some fungicide do that better?  As of now.. I'm just waiting to see what happens.

Thanks.

Thanks for the info all of you.

I thought that it would do okay outside with no covering to shield from rain.  I suppose not, or at least not when it rains and then is cloudy/drizzling for a couple days afterwards.  Thing is, I have another midsection cutting next to this one about the same size that has no mold on it at all, skin all intact, with pup shooting out, doing great... Time will tell.

Thanks again for the input.

It is possible that you are trying to extract from a strain with little dmt content in it.  I have heard that this is the case with most, if not all, wild phalaris.

Hello knowledgable cacti growers,

I've got this San Pedro mid-section cutting outside that doesn't seem to be doing too well.  It's shot out a pup that's growing pretty fast and it's gone through a few rains.  It has rained again for the past two days and this time, it did not do so well.



Is this mold/rot?  What should I do?  Cut it off now or wait to see what happens?  I guess I am going to try to cover it whenever I can to protect it from rain because the skin is peeling up and rotting underneath it seems, along with everywhere else on the cut.

hmm.. any thoughts would be appreciated.  Thanks.

My plants, that I got last year, did absolutely terrible through summer and winter.  Got them from a California greenhouse and put them in a shady spot in my Texas lawn.  Leaves got all brown and fell off.  One died and one other was left as just a stump, this year.. it's had the best growth of them all, considering what it went through.  All the leaves from last year are still brown-edged but the new ones have no brown at all and are healthy.  Once they get used to the environment you put them in.. they'll like it.