Hard to imagine a simple 1 hour job with 2 people can turn into a 3 day ordeal. I'm missing something I guess. I have the ambition to someday be able to buy and move 500-pound cactus specimens without paying some landscaper $1500+ to move it. I recently tried to buy a statue locally that is worth a...

In this case, I looked up moving large cactus a year or so back out of curiosity about how the really big boys are moved. Saguaros and other 100+ pound specimens. The synopsis and my take away was - two people and a garden hose. Not kidding. That's how those particular cactus movers did it. No one ...

@Steve-O Chain Hoist seems like a good idea here. Where I am confused is in how do I build the rigging from the chain hoist. Imagine you have the wood 2x4's in Keith's drawing secured to the cactus. I guess you could construct is some kind of bridle hitch from each end of that up to the chain hoist....

You could make a wood frame around the base of the cactus, lift support it on blocks, break the old pot and lift into new pot fill with soil and dismantle wood frame. Going to need 2 people maybe 3 one to hold cactus from tipping. IN AZ they use carpet to move large saguaros. So I was thinking of a...

If you need a mechanical lift can't you just hire one of those engine cranes the auto firms use for removing and installing car engines from one of the machine tool hire firms? Seems pointless buying something for very occasional use? The main trouble though is the plant weight hanging on straps ar...

You don't lift it out. You lay the pot on its side and slide it off, then do the same in reverse. No equipment needed, but a person or 2 (or more) to supply a bit of muscle, plus various padding such as old towels, polystyrene or cardboard packaging, straw etc. This works for removing the old pot a...

@esp_imaging I fertilize this plant with diluted fertilizer every week. I keep euphorbia in pumice because I leave them out in the rain in Winter in zone 9a, and I have lost them to root rot in soil mixes with organic components. I will bring it into the shade for now. What does the white coloration...

ImNotTelling wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 5:41 am I can only confirm that its not cooperi.
Reminds me of Euphorbia coerulescens.

Do you have a photo of a juvenile cooperi?

I have a 200 pound Euphorbia that I need to repot. At that kind of weight, I want to invest in a little professional equipment to make it possible to do this safely. Does anyone have a detailed list of things to buy and some explanation of how to use them, to secure a cactus and lift it out of an ol...

@MIkeInOz could you clarify some of what you say as follows? You said "When the original root ball is in a finer mix than the new material it hold much more water and you can end up with a disaster." I do always wash the rootball clean when I do a replant, but if I did not do that why is a...

I purchased a plant that was supposed to be Euphorbia cooperi. Is the plant in the photo below the correct plant? It lacks the enlarged tip that a mature cooperi has. http://www.cacti.co.nz/library/euphorbia-cooperi/ I planted this in pure pumice and it is turning white at the bottom. What does that...

@esp_imaging The plant is potted in clay soil, and the pot it is in is cracking open, so probably the roots are circling. There is no way I am planting a Euphorbia being left outside in the rain in clay. Maybe Polygona is not very delicate, but many Euphorbias would rot quickly in such conditions.

Dont bother. I have had a polygona but also not polygona as well. No point in trying to ID it. Unless you can find the breeder or know its ancestry....or submit it to a genetics test...youre not going to find out. Mine had intermittent spikes. On and off for some reason. For all intents and purpose...

@ImNotTelling Regarding #2, I have another thread here with a Polygona. That plant looks different. The plant in #2 has irregular spikes, some of which are quite a bit longer than others. The spine itself sticks out where those large spikes appear. The other Polygona I posted has more uniform spine.

@MikeInOz What do you think about the idea of using pure pumice for the new soil mix? It is a Euphorbia, and I will be keeping it outdoors in zone 9a, which is always a potential risk. It is already living outside in zone 9a, so no major climate change. But I would like to put the plant in a positio...