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Here are some pics of a very nice cactus nursery in Otzberg-Lengfeld, Germany

nice!!!

my Astrophynum Senil died during the winter. I've never had a cactus die on me that quickly. Not uncommon for me to lose a cactus during the winter. 1st week January all is well and I give a smige of water, like all my cacti and 3 weeks later it is dead and shriveled up. RIP little guy.

Astros don`t like any water during winter resting. Or maybe it wasn`t dried enough from last season.
Well, unfortunately that usually happen with the most beautiful piece in collection...

I have another Astro that I've had for several years and I water it occasionally during the winter and it gets along fine. The nusery told me he thinks the roots had some kind of problem. As I understand it a cactus that looks like it is fine could have a problem with roots or be infected, weakened and you cannot see it. During the winter months of dormancy is when the cactus is succeptable because it is in a weaken dormant state. That is the high risk time for the cactus to die if it is sick. It died so quickly I was stunned.

AgavaSK- I did a little research and you are correct. The Astrophynum Senil is supposed to stay perfectly dry during the winter. Perhpas I'll get another and try again.

madkactus wrote:AgavaSK- I did a little research and you are correct. The Astrophynum Senil is supposed to stay perfectly dry during the winter. Perhpas I'll get another and try again.

Please do that. There Will be more deads, but don't you ever give up.

I got another Astrophynum Senil to replace the one I killed. I took the advice and kept it compleatly dry this past winter and the cactus is doing fine this spring.

Horray!!!