scabs on cacti-any treatment

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i know its not an insect... scale bugs..... its corky looking... whitish..... appears only on unhealthy plants i guess.... if perfect conditions... it doesnt develop

i once was told use alcohol .... i didnt work... then i was told to cut it off... and then clean with alcohol... bad idea....

i tried picking one off the other day on my clumping penis clone.... its fucked it up cuase it had a black spot that was growing on it.... so today i used a clean razor and gently sliced off a small surface piece...... and left alone to dry

i was thinking of putting some rooting hormone powder in it to keep off fungi and such....

any ideas as to how to clean this shit up??

stonehenge.... you the man!

[winder]

Try sulfur dust, not rooting hormone.

[Stonehenge]

I've seen black blisters form sometimes. I think it could be due to too much sun. There is no cure far as I know. If it's a fungus then sulfur might help. I've seen the whitish scabs too. Maybe some day I'll find out the answers to things like that.

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rootin hormone has a shitload of sulfur in it... and little hormone.....

at least i thought.....


even if not..... i find it has been workin.....

[VajraPirate]

Yeah, the only thing I use rooting hormone for on my cacti is as a drying agent. They don't usually seem to need much help setting roots.

Unlike some of those pesky leafy plants.

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yeah vprite... that cacti i gave you... whew.... that sucker is one big scab....

the new growth should be nice though..... youre gonna have to hook me up in 10 years!!