I've never kept Cacti and succulents outside do have never had this problem, but if it is birds maybe something like the bird netting that gardeners use to keep birds off of fruits or some kind of bird scarer would help? (There are lots of articles like this one around: https://www.growveg.com/guide...

7george - Thank you for the help. ^^ Is it worth trying to save the scion by re-grafting it to another healthy cactus, or is this likely to cause more complications and just damage the poor new host cactus in the process? I had problems with uploading a decent quality file for the Euphorbia Enopla.....

Hello! :) I have a small collection of Cacti in my workshop, and earlier today I noticed that there was something wrong with one of the cacti (a graft one) that was previously very happy and healthy looking... the first two images attached show the weird brown marks on it; the green part looks thinn...

Hello all! :D I've had this lovely green succulent for just over a month now, and It's getting close to flowering... however it developed some brown marks and damage around it's leaves and stem very soon after I received it... and I was wondering if this could have been caused by over watering or by...

Thank you so much fr the help and advice Harald! You're a star! :D Luckily the stem with rot turned out to be growing separate to most of the other parts of the Euphorbia so I could just remove the affected one from the pot... I cut off the healthy parts and will attempt to re-plant them when they a...

Thanks everyone.

Hello everyone! :) I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to keeping cacti... I used to have a small collection of them when I was a child, that I remember me and my parents grew with quite some success - we even ended up giving away quite a few as gifts one year when one of them fragmented and each...

Hello everyone. :) I'm pretty new to keeping cacti... I was bought a pot with 3 species in it as a gift by a family member a couple of weeks ago (they bought them at a local garden centre) to keep in my studio, and they do not seem to be at all well... I was planning on re-potting them as the stones...