Hello my friends across the blue waters hope all is well great video a lot of good information on this video hope you two have a great day from the Carolina’s
So happy you loved the video Gary :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Hans and me to the Carolina's for a super Saturday and a fantastic weekend XXXX
Great video Lyn, I had a similar thing happen to my variegated Echinopsis, went very wrinkly and corky around the base and actually lost most of its roots too, I ended up cutting it and now its re-rooted again and looking nice and healthy. Thank you for sharing with us as always Lyn, from Edith & myself to you and Hans, have a wonderful Wednesday 😊❤️🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Thats fantastic that you was able to re root your variegated Echinopsis Daz :-D I have noticed that Echinopsis are the most prone to this, thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing support and comment and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a terrific Thursday today XXXX
Great video Lyn!!! Yes normally corking isn't harmful, just tree bark, hahaha!! But a dry dark spot is concerning. My Euphorbia evansii did this at the base. I cut away the dead tissue and then it started healing. Now you can see new growth into the " wood exposed area" like a tree does around a knot hole. Sometimes the livingpart left will take over and the plant survives well. Hope this is the case for yours!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, to across the Emerald Isle, have a great day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳 ..
Thats fantastic news that you was able to save your Euphorbia evansii and it has sent new growth from the wood area :-D its always a worry when we have these problems happen to our beloved plants, thanks so much Clyde for your wonderful friendship and amazing support and comment and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb and all the pets and plants all lots of love and happiness and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS and PLANT POWER to Morris Park in the Ozarks for a terrific Thursday ahead XXXX
I had this on one of my small Eulychnia cactus plants I won from eBay about two months ago. Not to discredit the previous grower in any way, or the way it was sent. I too had a look at the soil and I managed to identify a few problems that could have led to basal stem erosion. There was evidence of a lot of soil compaction in the rootball, my plant arrived with no grit or stone in the soil at all and I think that the soil aggregates had bonded together like cardboard over time. I don't think the plant had ever been repotted since it was sown. When the soil is "rock hard", there tends to be a lot of surface run off, and that could mean the water will simply pool and evaporate at the surface before it can soak in or drain down the side of the rootball and out the bottom of the pot. This invariably leaves the plant dehydrated and encourages root loss. Cacti also like root aeration, it allows them to quickly grow new roots to take advantage of water pockets and to increase the network below ground. I replanted mine with a fresh and more dynamic cactus soil like you did,,and it has halted the shrinking for now. The plant has been propped up by a wedged stick to keep it from leaning over as it is a slender columnar. I am hoping if I give it a slightly boosted cycle of watering next spring with some early fertiliser in April it may plump back up and all I will be left with is the dried brown scab at the base. I won't know until next year if it works, but I will wait to try out this resolution to avoid the plant rotting off due to overwatering. It is still alive at the moment, and the plant has not got any worse since I received it, so the plan for the time being is get it through the winter.
@Not going to Treehab. Thanks for the reply. I used a small metal fork to excavate the roots at the bottom and sides of the rootball. Sometimes you have large soil nuggets that remain attached to parts of the root. I simply break these up with my fingers by gently messaging it. There's also the risk of loosing some roots while you do this, but it can't be helped. Root suffocation is a far worse outcome if left as is, that could lead to the death of the plant. Cacti can regrow roots pretty readily so this option is one that I believe is worth taking.
Thanks so much James for sharing your experience with your Eulychnia Cactus, and I will be keeping my fingers crossed that it recovers really well in time, and so true the best thing you can do for now is to get it through the winter, and it sounds like you have done a fantastic job at saving it, and it will have the upcoming winter rest period to recuperate for the following growing season :-D thanks so much James for sharing your info and for all of your wonderful support and comments and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Somerset for a terrific Thursday today XXXX
So happy you enjoyed the video Magda :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Sea for a terrific Thursday XXXX
So happy that the video has helped you with your Echinopsis too :-D Echinopsis are very prone to this, thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
So happy you enjoyed the video Norman :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
So happy you enjoyed the video Patricia :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
haha I have a few weird cacti but thank goodness it was ok :-D thanks so much Fernanda for your fantastic support and wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Portugal for a wonderful weekend ahead XXXX
That was a corking video, Lyn, great advice. I suppose it's just ageing, like the rest of us! If even you have corking on your plants then I'm sure it's not something you can avoid. It is strange that some huge plants don't suffer with this though, perhaps it's also a genetic factor? Thanks for the great advice
haha Marion about aging like the rest of us LOL! :-D yes I think that some plants are more prone to corkiness with their genetics, so happy you liked this corking video Marion haha, and thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
thanks so much Ken for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Japan for a terrific Thursday XXXX
So happy you loved the info Peter :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing support and comment and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and Ellyn lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Downunder for a wonderful afternoon XXXX
I've had a a couple of Cactus not seeming their self this year... Might check them over now you've reminded me👍🌵 😉 Lyn, I've posted a Parcel off to you today late afternoon, 1st Class signed for, before 5pm... It should be with you soon, I hope😁 🌼🤗🌼🤗
Hi Lyn. Useful video. Hope all your cactus plants to grow healtly. 👍🌵. I have my cacti outside. But now in autumn soil do not dries. And many rains. But it is warm yet. What to do? Move them inside? Thank you.
Hi George :-D Yes its best to move them inside even though its still warm, to let them the soil dry out before the winter starts, thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Moldova for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Howdy neighbour Haha long time since I've been on UA-cam,my health hasn't been the best this past while, great info lyn as always. Hope you and hans are keeping well? I think I've give up on uploading videos lol I'm no good at it like all use youtubers lol but I will continue to support your channels as always. Sending loads of love from down the road lol xxxxx
Howdy John our wonderful neighbour :-D We are so sorry to hear about your health, and we are sending you tons of love and healing your way, and you may feel like uploading more vids in the future when you feel better, its been a strange year altogether and it doesn't help how we feel with our health etc, but we can all have a cosy Winter ahead and look forward to the following year, and know that we are only down the road too haha
haha :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Wow. .very informative indeed , Lyn. Now I know what to do if ever I have the same problem. Do you know why some cacti turn brownish or have brown markings not only around the base but on the body too? Like what I see at the top of this cactus?
So happy you found the video informative Molly :-D yes sometimes cacti can get brown markings on their bodies due to being slightly damaged by insects or other spines or a bump on their skin, thankfully its nearly always harmless, the biggest threat is if the brown marks are small and circular as this can sometimes be scale insect, but nearly all the time its harmless corking, thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malaysia for a terrific Thursday evening ahead XXXX
This has happened to two of my rare gymnos. I was freaking out. I unpotted them and saw they had the old soil from the vendor tightly packed. I don't think the roots were getting air or anything. I washed them and have them hydrating and will repot later. I hope they'll be ok. I wondered if it was lack of light. I had them on that window sill that's been nothing but trouble despite being an east window. Oh I like Echinopsis mammillosa. Those are rare in the US. I'm lucky I found one. Wish I could find a second so I could have a breeding pair.
Thats a shame you had this happen too with your two rare Gymnos, and thats the best thing to do to take them out of their pots and washing off the older soil, I will be keeping my fingers crossed they recover really well for you, thanks so much Des for your wonderful support and comments and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Florida for a terrific Thursday today XXXX
thanks so much Jonathon for your wonderful support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Yes that is another option too, especially if the roots are dried up and died back, but because most of the roots are still good I decided to just re pot it, thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
I have a few cacti that has this exact markings. It’s hard as a rock and I was thinking it was a fungus. My heart was pounding because of the markings. So it’s harmless and normal and just corking?
The fantastic news is its harmless and due to corking, I have quite a few cacti that have gone very wrinkled and hard at the base and brown and its harmless and due to their natural aging, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic new week XXXX
Hi Guys :-D In this video I talk about Cactus Plants that are Shrivelled / Wrinkled at the Base & what to do :-D
Hello my friends across the blue waters hope all is well great video a lot of good information on this video hope you two have a great day from the Carolina’s
So happy you loved the video Gary :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Hans and me to the Carolina's for a super Saturday and a fantastic weekend XXXX
Great video Lyn, I had a similar thing happen to my variegated Echinopsis, went very wrinkly and corky around the base and actually lost most of its roots too, I ended up cutting it and now its re-rooted again and looking nice and healthy. Thank you for sharing with us as always Lyn, from Edith & myself to you and Hans, have a wonderful Wednesday 😊❤️🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Thats fantastic that you was able to re root your variegated Echinopsis Daz :-D I have noticed that Echinopsis are the most prone to this, thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing support and comment and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a terrific Thursday today XXXX
Great video Lyn!!! Yes normally corking isn't harmful, just tree bark, hahaha!! But a dry dark spot is concerning. My Euphorbia evansii did this at the base. I cut away the dead tissue and then it started healing. Now you can see new growth into the " wood exposed area" like a tree does around a knot hole. Sometimes the livingpart left will take over and the plant survives well. Hope this is the case for yours!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, to across the Emerald Isle, have a great day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
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Thats fantastic news that you was able to save your Euphorbia evansii and it has sent new growth from the wood area :-D its always a worry when we have these problems happen to our beloved plants, thanks so much Clyde for your wonderful friendship and amazing support and comment and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb and all the pets and plants all lots of love and happiness and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS and PLANT POWER to Morris Park in the Ozarks for a terrific Thursday ahead XXXX
Thanks for the useful information you share with us Lyn! Hope you Lyn and Hans have a lovely afternoon! Lots of love!
So happy you love the information Sylvia
I had this on one of my small Eulychnia cactus plants I won from eBay about two months ago. Not to discredit the previous grower in any way, or the way it was sent. I too had a look at the soil and I managed to identify a few problems that could have led to basal stem erosion.
There was evidence of a lot of soil compaction in the rootball, my plant arrived with no grit or stone in the soil at all and I think that the soil aggregates had bonded together like cardboard over time. I don't think the plant had ever been repotted since it was sown.
When the soil is "rock hard", there tends to be a lot of surface run off, and that could mean the water will simply pool and evaporate at the surface before it can soak in or drain down the side of the rootball and out the bottom of the pot. This invariably leaves the plant dehydrated and encourages root loss.
Cacti also like root aeration, it allows them to quickly grow new roots to take advantage of water pockets and to increase the network below ground. I replanted mine with a fresh and more dynamic cactus soil like you did,,and it has halted the shrinking for now.
The plant has been propped up by a wedged stick to keep it from leaning over as it is a slender columnar. I am hoping if I give it a slightly boosted cycle of watering next spring with some early fertiliser in April it may plump back up and all I will be left with is the dried brown scab at the base.
I won't know until next year if it works, but I will wait to try out this resolution to avoid the plant rotting off due to overwatering. It is still alive at the moment, and the plant has not got any worse since I received it, so the plan for the time being is get it through the winter.
demonhalo67 I have some like that as well, was going to wait until spring to repot. How did you remove the old compacted soil?
@Not going to Treehab. Thanks for the reply. I used a small metal fork to excavate the roots at the bottom and sides of the rootball. Sometimes you have large soil nuggets that remain attached to parts of the root. I simply break these up with my fingers by gently messaging it. There's also the risk of loosing some roots while you do this, but it can't be helped. Root suffocation is a far worse outcome if left as is, that could lead to the death of the plant. Cacti can regrow roots pretty readily so this option is one that I believe is worth taking.
Thanks so much James for sharing your experience with your Eulychnia Cactus, and I will be keeping my fingers crossed that it recovers really well in time, and so true the best thing you can do for now is to get it through the winter, and it sounds like you have done a fantastic job at saving it, and it will have the upcoming winter rest period to recuperate for the following growing season :-D thanks so much James for sharing your info and for all of your wonderful support and comments and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Somerset for a terrific Thursday today XXXX
Thanks for sharing, it was useful and informative, glad no pests☺
So happy you enjoyed the video Magda :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Sea for a terrific Thursday XXXX
this is a very helpful video because one of my echinopsis cacti decide to be like that too thanks alot for ur help and guides
So happy that the video has helped you with your Echinopsis too :-D Echinopsis are very prone to this, thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Very informative Lyn,tnx for sharing 😊🌵🌸🙏
So happy you enjoyed the video Norman :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Thank you for your very very informative video as usual, 👧💟
So happy you enjoyed the video Patricia :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Thanks so much for sharing. I have a few cacti with corking that’s slowly creeping upwards.
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Friday XXXX
It sure looks weird but it is good to know it is ok. Very useful vídeo, Lyn👌♥️😄
haha I have a few weird cacti but thank goodness it was ok :-D thanks so much Fernanda for your fantastic support and wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Portugal for a wonderful weekend ahead XXXX
That was a corking video, Lyn, great advice. I suppose it's just ageing, like the rest of us! If even you have corking on your plants then I'm sure it's not something you can avoid. It is strange that some huge plants don't suffer with this though, perhaps it's also a genetic factor? Thanks for the great advice
haha Marion about aging like the rest of us LOL! :-D yes I think that some plants are more prone to corkiness with their genetics, so happy you liked this corking video Marion haha, and thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Great informative video
thanks so much Ken for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Japan for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Good information Lyn, thanks for sharing .🌵🌵🌵⚘😗👍👊
So happy you loved the info Peter :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing support and comment and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and Ellyn lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Downunder for a wonderful afternoon XXXX
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I've had a a couple of Cactus not seeming their self this year... Might check them over now you've reminded me👍🌵 😉
Lyn, I've posted a Parcel off to you today late afternoon, 1st Class signed for, before 5pm... It should be with you soon, I hope😁
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YIPPPEEEEE :-D Thats fantastic news Claire :-D I am so excited, and will let you now when it arrives WOOOOO HOOOO
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thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic plant powered Friday XXXX
Hi Lyn. Useful video. Hope all your cactus plants to grow healtly. 👍🌵. I have my cacti outside. But now in autumn soil do not dries. And many rains. But it is warm yet. What to do? Move them inside? Thank you.
Hi George :-D Yes its best to move them inside even though its still warm, to let them the soil dry out before the winter starts, thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Moldova for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Howdy neighbour Haha long time since I've been on UA-cam,my health hasn't been the best this past while, great info lyn as always. Hope you and hans are keeping well? I think I've give up on uploading videos lol I'm no good at it like all use youtubers lol but I will continue to support your channels as always. Sending loads of love from down the road lol xxxxx
Howdy John our wonderful neighbour :-D We are so sorry to hear about your health, and we are sending you tons of love and healing your way, and you may feel like uploading more vids in the future when you feel better, its been a strange year altogether and it doesn't help how we feel with our health etc, but we can all have a cosy Winter ahead and look forward to the following year, and know that we are only down the road too haha
I thought you were saying loan based soil all these years lolol
haha :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Wow. .very informative indeed , Lyn. Now I know what to do if ever I have the same problem. Do you know why some cacti turn brownish or have brown markings not only around the base but on the body too? Like what I see at the top of this cactus?
So happy you found the video informative Molly :-D yes sometimes cacti can get brown markings on their bodies due to being slightly damaged by insects or other spines or a bump on their skin, thankfully its nearly always harmless, the biggest threat is if the brown marks are small and circular as this can sometimes be scale insect, but nearly all the time its harmless corking, thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malaysia for a terrific Thursday evening ahead XXXX
This has happened to two of my rare gymnos. I was freaking out. I unpotted them and saw they had the old soil from the vendor tightly packed. I don't think the roots were getting air or anything. I washed them and have them hydrating and will repot later. I hope they'll be ok. I wondered if it was lack of light. I had them on that window sill that's been nothing but trouble despite being an east window. Oh I like Echinopsis mammillosa. Those are rare in the US. I'm lucky I found one. Wish I could find a second so I could have a breeding pair.
Thats a shame you had this happen too with your two rare Gymnos, and thats the best thing to do to take them out of their pots and washing off the older soil, I will be keeping my fingers crossed they recover really well for you, thanks so much Des for your wonderful support and comments and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Florida for a terrific Thursday today XXXX
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thanks so much Jonathon for your wonderful support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Would u perhaps cut the cactus above the shriveled part? And let it re callous and root again?
Yes that is another option too, especially if the roots are dried up and died back, but because most of the roots are still good I decided to just re pot it, thanks so much for your wonderful support and comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
I have a few cacti that has this exact markings. It’s hard as a rock and I was thinking it was a fungus. My heart was pounding because of the markings. So it’s harmless and normal and just corking?
The fantastic news is its harmless and due to corking, I have quite a few cacti that have gone very wrinkled and hard at the base and brown and its harmless and due to their natural aging, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic new week XXXX
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