Possibly rotting
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:07 am
I'll give the backstory
(for a ferocactus herrerae)
i knocked my small cactus over a few weeks ago and decided to repot it in a larger pot rather than in the same one.(and this is my first time having a cactus or repotting something) After a few days i looked at it and noticed the body collasping in on itself, shrivelling up and that the soil in the pot was still wet and had stayed wet for much longer than it usually did in the small pot, and was not looking like it's going to dry any time soon. So i immediately put it in dry soil in a small pot and i haven't watered it since because i'm worried that it might have started rotting inside and if i add water it might reactivate the rotting. I've been planning to just not water it and hope a dry enough environment kills off the rot that may be inside but i don't know when i can water it again or if that's enough first aid after this happened. It looks better now. It was discoloured when i found it, greyish and very sad looking. Now it's back to green but still crumpled
so my question is do i need to treat it for rot? Or should it be fine to water again? Or when can i water again? I hope someone here can know what to do because i wasn't sure how to ask google what to do in this case. Thank you
(for a ferocactus herrerae)
i knocked my small cactus over a few weeks ago and decided to repot it in a larger pot rather than in the same one.(and this is my first time having a cactus or repotting something) After a few days i looked at it and noticed the body collasping in on itself, shrivelling up and that the soil in the pot was still wet and had stayed wet for much longer than it usually did in the small pot, and was not looking like it's going to dry any time soon. So i immediately put it in dry soil in a small pot and i haven't watered it since because i'm worried that it might have started rotting inside and if i add water it might reactivate the rotting. I've been planning to just not water it and hope a dry enough environment kills off the rot that may be inside but i don't know when i can water it again or if that's enough first aid after this happened. It looks better now. It was discoloured when i found it, greyish and very sad looking. Now it's back to green but still crumpled
so my question is do i need to treat it for rot? Or should it be fine to water again? Or when can i water again? I hope someone here can know what to do because i wasn't sure how to ask google what to do in this case. Thank you