I actually have one winter damaged plant that I can post. Although my damage occurred way back at the beginning of November. I move my O. santa-rita in last because it is a glochid factory. Well I was slow in moving it in and it got a bit too cold for it. I know it could handle some freezing, but it was low 20's and it took a hit. Not dead, just damaged.
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
yup. I don't know. I hiked up into some areas North of town, I mean you got around 10 miles north of me and the saguaros can't survive, it gets too cold for them, and so far it seems that most of them are doing ok. The dying saguaro was set into motion before the cold, it was one of the moved ones.
As for the other plants most of my Opuntia are fine, and the others are just shriveled up and will look better in a few weeks or a month or so. When I saw how cold it got, I was worried because supposedly saguaros are only good to around 10F. Lower then that and they freeze and the cells rupture.
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
really the only ones that I have that were outside during the cold snap were E. grusonii, which is fine, and E. spachiana which lost the one trunk, probably due to wind. Most of the rest in my yard are Saguaros (to 10F so they all were good) and a bunch of Opuntia many of which were used to the cold.
So far it seems like all my outdoor cacti, except the ones that I mentioned that died are going to be fine.
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
I don't think a saguaro being black is ever a good thing. A few of mine had black spots on them where fungus attacked the plant but it scared under the surface. (I know this cause I scarped one of them off with a stick)
Pics might help us decide if anything is savable or not. I dont even think I can save the arms on that saguaro if it should fall they are a sickly yellowish color.
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.