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Gardening Area => Plant Pests & Infections => Topic started by: Psylocke on March 18, 2017, 11:24:58 PM

Title: What's wrong with this plant?
Post by: Psylocke on March 18, 2017, 11:24:58 PM

Anybody ever seen this before? I've been growing cacti for about 15 years and have never seen this. Lost a large portion of my collection last year to it. It starts at the bottom and moves up over a period  of 1-2 months. The only way I have found to save the plant is to top it and re-root. Sometimes even that doesn't work. The only thing I can think of is that last year I put most of my plants on top of wooden planks to keep the snails away. Maybe some fungus in the wood made it way into the soil and roots.

Title: Re: What's wrong with this plant?
Post by: nobody on March 19, 2017, 01:42:17 AM

Looks like rot caused by fungus. I lost several Pachanoi last year that looked the same, all the plants that were affected had some damage caused by moths. Used some fungicide and stopped watering for 3 months and it stopped spreading. Make sure to quarantine that one (and any other affected) from your other plants, should probably discard the soil somewhere far away.


nobody :)