Repottted Golden Barrel

[Joel143]

Finally be able to repot my large golden barrel. As you can see it's been in its previous pot for so long the spines are flat on the lower half due to growing against the pot. It's about 16" across so I repotted it in a whiskey barrel pot. The new pot is deeper than I would like it to be but it will do the job.

[cactushobbyman]

That's a nice plant. Mine are starting to flower, has your flowered?

[majcka]

Finally be able to repot my large golden barrel.

Did you use the crane to do it?

Nice specimen.

[Joel143]

It hasn't flowered yet this year but am looking forward to flowers hopefully soon.

I used some strips of carpet to lift and move it. The hardest thing was getting it out of its old pot. I've always used clay pots reusing them as needed. In this case I had no choice but to take a hammer and shatter the clay pot to get it out.

[iann]

Roots do love to cling onto those clay pots

[CactusFanDan]

Very nice plant and a great repot. Roots do indeed like trying to grow into clay pots. I wonder if given enough time their roots would ever fully penetrate the clay in the pot? Perhaps some of the clay-inhabiting plant could. I think I see an experiment coming on.

[daiv]

Great job - now that it has all this new soil, just be sure you don't over-water it.

[Joel143]

Now I just hope, over time, the lower spines can return to some-what normal positions instead of pushed it because of being in a pot.

[*Barracuda_52*]

Thats a fantastic repot job, nice!

[daiv]

The bottom spines should actually shrink away at the base of the plant as it grows, so you are not looking at a permanent condition.