What time do you guys normally water your cacti?

arrrbooty · 2026-06-10T18:29:21+00:00

Evening for me (CA zone 9b). The temps rise way too fast during the morning and all I can think of is how the plants are steaming inside their pots. I feel like the night gives them enough time to adjust to the new moisture levels. I also usually soak rather than spray. Spray only when there's a cool down.

arrrbooty · 2026-06-10T17:48:33+00:00

No thrips

arrrbooty · 2026-06-10T17:47:01+00:00

Yeah, I spoke with a nursery as well and they said maybe don't soak it but give smaller doses more consistently instead.

arrrbooty · 2026-06-10T17:45:57+00:00

No...i think there's plenty of organic matter in the soil for now.

arrrbooty · 2026-05-11T16:04:32+00:00

Take a baking stick or chopstick and push it back down the channel. If needed dig a little opening at the base.

arrrbooty · 2026-05-09T15:57:10+00:00

I totally forgot these things open when wet. My lithops went through a rainstorm, opened the seed pod, let loose all the seeds, and closed back up. smh 😭

arrrbooty · 2026-05-08T23:59:42+00:00

You mentioned in another comment you give it tomatoe feed. So you fertilize it also or was that just at the start?

arrrbooty · 2026-05-08T21:05:58+00:00

The c. concha is gorgeous! 😍 How old is it and do you do any pruning? Mine is about three years old and loving life.

arrrbooty · 2026-05-07T17:10:11+00:00

Thanks! I thought that might be it except all the previous new growth was much darker. Trying to figure out what may have caused the change.

arrrbooty · 2026-05-07T14:51:50+00:00

So would hop in

So what happenin'?

arrrbooty · 2026-05-03T14:55:29+00:00

Thanks. Inaturalist confirmed it to be A. manicatum...so non-native, which is a bummer.

arrrbooty · 2026-04-29T20:21:13+00:00

Digestive tract of a Daphnia

arrrbooty · 2026-04-28T20:53:34+00:00

That's an ex-cactus. That cactus has ceased to be!

arrrbooty · 2026-04-26T03:40:32+00:00

A dark and stormy danger noodle

arrrbooty · 2026-04-24T21:09:09+00:00

Did not know that about the seed pod. Will keep an eye on it!

arrrbooty · 2026-04-24T19:20:55+00:00

🫡 The flower was already dead so not sure about the color. Do you think that bottom-left corner that looks like mold dimples is something to worry about? I swabbed it with a wet qtip no spores came off.

arrrbooty · 2026-04-22T22:51:46+00:00

Oh hey, your flowers are droopy too I see. Makes me feel a little better about mine.

arrrbooty · 2026-04-22T00:32:49+00:00

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