Propagate a Cactus by Top Cutting |

Top cutting is one way to propagate a cactus. I did this to my tall Lobivia that would not produce any offsets. Here is the result.
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[@momiglefoodchannel9271]

Thanks for sharing how to propagate. Cheers! for more cactus

[@sandragoerlich7134]

Those pups are plump and healthy, more beautiful flowers 🌺, thanks for sharing Ana!!!

[@maureenswallow3054]

Thanks ANA, it's always nice to see how other's complete the same task, And share their experiences, Bill.

[@agathan.944]

Great video, Ana, thank you for sharing your experience. We all know it's possible. But actually seeing successful propagation gives more confidence to all cactus collectors.

[@JenFlutterby]

Recently had to cut one of my lobivia due to a mushy area about an inch above the soil. I propagated the top and it’s thriving. Left the bottom part in the original pot and added cinnamon. After watching this video I went out to check on the bottom inch stump, and what do you know…my first pup is growing off the side! 🥰

[@CactusCaffeine]

Oh that’s awesome! Lucky you that the bottom survived and produced a pup! Now you have more!

[@emmitstewart1921]

I did this last year with an old Parodia magnifica that had grown top-heavy. The top had kept getting fatter and fatter, but the bottom eight inches stayed small. I didn't leave enough of a stump, though, so the pups are growing very slowly and won't be ready to pick off for several years. Lesson learned. Leave enough of a stump to nourish the incoming pups.

[@jillianleblanc9370]

Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazingly cactus lovely collection beautiful garden

[@falzonp1]

Beautiful video! It's nice to see pups on top of the cut Lobivia! Nicely repotted! Nice weekend!

[@CactusCaffeine]

Thank you!

[@Diana6053]

Enjoyed the video Ana! Thank you I will have to get to work on my dragon fruit cactus this week! Cheers from Austin, TX!

[@melbendigo]

Thank you! I didn't know about cinnamon for this purpose! I'm propagating my cactus for the first time, and you've helped me immensely!

[@CactusCaffeine]

I’m glad this video is useful for you. Good luck! 🙂👍🏼🌵

[@billgolightly7203]

Try spraying the water every few days. This will give a more even distribution of the moisture. An 8 oz. bottle is easy to handle. Works for me.

[@bettejohnson7137]

Hello 👋 beautiful Cactus 🌵 good to see you

[@annekrishnaabenojar6029]

It's addicting to cut cacti for pups ate ana😂 i remembered i cut about 5 of mine before to make them clump 😆 now that they are clumped, i bought bigger pots and it's so expensive 😂😂. Great vid ate ana 👍🥰❤️

[@solarwinds-]

Agreed, it's addicting, only now, I'm running out of room.

[@CactusCaffeine]

It truly is! It gives more pups in a shorter amount of time. Clumps are worth more! So it’s ok to splurge on a pot for them. 😉

[@desertplantsofavalon]

This is a really FANTASTIC video Ana :-D and BRILLIANT result you have had with the pups growing from the top, top cutting is a brilliant way to propagate and get more pups from the top, I will need to do this to some of mine that refuse to send out any offsets from their base

[@CactusCaffeine]

I’m happy you like my video Lyn. I love the flowers on this Lobivia so I’m excited to grow more of it. Good luck on your Lobivia and I hope you make a video it you do end up doing the cut, too. ☺️

[@succulentsjourney3147]

Love the info. Thanks!

[@ZiggySearchfieldCactus]

Nice one Ana 🙂 I do that with my Opuntia vestitas, works well although I've started rooting them in pure grit instead of potting mix. Seems to be working fine 🙂🌵🌵🙂

[@marleywalker3494]

I had a soft spot on a Spiral cactus and I wasn't sure how to do it.. I went to your videos and was so happy to find this video. I felt more confident and cut the top off and I cut it on an angle cause I saw another video you did and put cinnamon on it. Thanks so much for your videos. I love them. I hope my Spiral will recover I have had it 3 years and have no idea why it happened.

[@CactusCaffeine]

Good luck! I hope your Spiralis will be ok.

[@peterdecicco9673]

Loved ur video.

[@jeytex3161]

Thanks Anna, great how to and the cinnamon opposed to sulfur much better around the house!

[@CactusCaffeine]

I haven’t tried sulfur. But cinnamon always worked for me so I keep using it. 😉 I use it in my coffee, too.

[@jeytex3161]

@@CactusCaffeine for a treat I use it in my coffee.

[@normanquinez3013]

I luv the nail color mam 😊🌵🌸🍀🌼🌱😍

[@solarwinds-]

What a great Idea. That's what I'm going to do when my Lobivia rainbow burst gets tall.

[@bachirchouika7705]

Interesting Thanks for sharing I think it is better to renew the cut to encourage the mum cactus to produce pups again

[@cactihour6062]

I also had the tall Lobivia arachnacantha plant. So I decided to cut the top of the plant. Now there are many pups around the plant. Nice vedio thankyou for the vedio.

[@CactusCaffeine]

It is happiness whenever we see new pups growing! 😊

[@GailB0707]

My lobivia is also starting to lay down 😅 I am very tempted to do this as well 😅

[@CactusCaffeine]

I got tired of rotating and supporting that tall Lobivia. So it went under the knife 🔪. 😁 Good luck on yours.

[@Cactimania]

Excellent video, Ana 😊 This reminds me I’ve got a few cactus that need propagating soon. Need to wait for this second heatwave we’re having to end first though, it’s making even basic tasks an energy draining mission! 😂 Thank you for sharing with us as always, Ana. Have a wonderful day and weekend from Edith & myself 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜☕️

[@solarwinds-]

🥵LOL! An "energy draining ". PRECISELY PUT! It's been sooooooo hot!!!!!🥵

[@stephanierobert2973]

Damn was just repotting and you just saved me a major disaster in rotting, not root rot ofc but rotting the plant i wish to propegate, thank you fellow human x

[@SAYSUCCULENT]

Thanks for sharing ,Just started growing /collecting cactus this is vedio is a great help...

[@CactusCaffeine]

Thank you so much and hope you enjoy growing them. ☺️

[@caroljean1005]

Thank you. Easier than I thought.

[@CactusCaffeine]

Hope it helps. Cheers! ☺️☕️🌵

[@svechkevin]

Great video! I just tried this with a tall & skinny cactus I have and hopefully the top roots!

[@CactusCaffeine]

Good luck!

[@nee3029]

Instead of expensive spices like cinnamon, you should simply use ground charcoal.

[@CactusCaffeine]

Thanks for the tip. In my place, cinnamon is easier and cheaper to obtain than charcoal.

[@Amocles]

Cinnamon cool nice tip

[@flyguymike5247]

Does the top of the cut one eventually heal? Or does it only callus and produce pups?

[@CactusCaffeine]

The top will not grow taller anymore. It will just keep producing pups. 🙂

[@millieclark1085]

Thank you ,very good information.I will try doing that.

[@CactusCaffeine]

Good luck!

[@Allhisranch]

Great informative video. What do you use for soil?

[@daaam2160]

Will more pups continue to grow from original base plant?

[@CactusCaffeine]

Yes. It should produce more pups. 👍🏼

[@daaam2160]

@@CactusCaffeine thanks

[@waupfoo]

Great channel, just subscribed👍👍👍👍

[@CactusCaffeine]

Thank you and welcome! Cheers. 🙂🌵☕️

[@jude1515]

I am going to have to try this.

[@CactusCaffeine]

Good luck!

[@helikestowatch]

What mixture soil do you use and what rocks for top dressing?

[@LORENA-wq3vm]

Hi! New subbie from Tampa Florida 🌴. Thanks for sharing your video… this really helped me with my little cactus garden. I don’t know the names of what they are… will need to label them. But I see the same ones in your video. 🙂. I need a pair of those giant tweezers too🙂 ok…. Going to look at the rest of your videos… take care 🌵

[@CactusCaffeine]

Thank you so much and have fun taking care of your cacti. I hope you get lots of blooms.

[@thicccrusade2302]

One of my cactus had soft rotten base, I cut it off and added cinnamon, will see how it works.

[@bonefinderdog5884]

Your channel has been so helpful! I have a monster of a lobivia in my bay window that has become unruly. There are about 6 long stalks that literally droop over the sides of the pot ( they are not dead but scraggly and take up alot of room) and in the last few months, I have noticed about 7 pups growing in the middle at the base. Is it possible for me to just cut way back some of these long stalks? I would never have known to do that until I saw this video. Thank you!

[@ceciliatorres1882]

Hi, Anna. What did you use as top dressing? Now I know why you love Cactus, for those flowers in different vibrant colors.💕 inspired me to get some more.

[@CactusCaffeine]

Those are decomposed granite. Bag from Home Depot. I sifted it to separate the powder from the rocks.

[@ceciliatorres1882]

@@CactusCaffeine OMG, I bought one from HD but it looked like all crumbled DG, no big pieces. We're they in bags? I think I got mine in a small box.

[@caribelmejia3158]

How often should you water the cuttings?

[@Chad_Sandridge75]

Can you use sand as top dressing?

[@zixeiyun786]

What top dressing are you using?

[@saritapaul8484]

What soil and fertilizer u use

[@morrisparkintheozarks6831]

Great video Ana!! It's a great way to increase your collection!!! I just had to start a bunch of offsets from a " rainbow bursts", peach color Echinobivia . Root mealies destroyed the mother with the help of ants!! But I got a good handful of offsets from it!! So, a good save!! I wonder, since it has such a tendency to grow tall, if you experimented and cut the very top meristem from one of the offsets after it rooted, would it turn into a candelabra cluster as it matured?🤔🌵 It would be interesting to see. Since the plant has a tendency to be single. Thanks for sharing your propagation method with us all!! I'm sure many will be using this method to increase their collection!! Good stuff!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, out to Las Vegas, have a wonderful evening!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌺🌴🌻🌹🌳🌷🌲🏵🌿😃👍

[@emmitstewart1921]

That would have about the same effect as those people who push a hot wire into the meristem to make plant clusters. I'd let the pup grow until it was about six or more inches before doing it. if you could get a lab to do a tissue culture with the piece of meristem you cut off, you could get another plant out of the deal

[@AlexzanderDeGreat999]

Did you also apply cinnamon on the top half you cut off? Noticed you applied some on your pups when you cut them off.

[@saadesaade582]

Do they ever flower ?

[@kdc1899]

I have a mammillaria cactus. I think I cut it wrong. I cut it in the middle, not at the base of the pop. Will it die?

[@KayOss-zk4ls]

I rescued many cacti from being thrown away after an estate sale. I have NEVER had a cactus before. There were multiple varieties and variable health. Several were columns that were rotting st he base and were up to 3 feet tall. I believe some are Lovinia. I cut them as you said. The bases are doing great, but all the tops went soggy on me (they are now in cactus heaven). Maybe I watered too soon. I also decapitated what I think is an Echinopsis. The base of the top portions measure 6 inches. How do I plant the top without the squishifying(I made a new word) the other cacti died from?

[@mikescott5440]

Aren't you cactus in air until it callus is over before you replant it?

[@BassPotter46]

👍

[@salimsoltan1027]

It's tearable

[@florenceosiones5682]

Cutting gives more pups 😊😊😊

[@pennysmarsh1865]

I love cacti they are so cool I have a ric rac csctus that is dropping and not happy

[@CactusCaffeine]

Ric Rac cactus is tropical. It likes more water and indirect light. Check its lighting and watering. Too much water may cause it to rot and drop leaves as well.

[@pennysmarsh1865]

@@CactusCaffeine thanks for the advice I put it in a less sunny spot and am watering it more than my other cacti I also have a red desert gem cactus does it like to be in direct sunlight

[@ariananewcombe7737]

❤

[@BB-pf2cs]

Can you cut a big cactus into multiple parts to grow? Or does it only work in halves?

[@CactusCaffeine]

I’ve cut a tall columnar in 3. The middle and top parts rooted successfully. It may not always be a success but the bigger the parts are, the greater chance of success. 🙂

[@Tybold63]

🤔You gave me the inspiration to cut down my old Oreocereus celsianus which is like almost 60 centimeter (0,6m) and kinda has lost it's charm and getting super top heavy for my apartment. Does it matter what season you cut them? I think it would be very nice to get some "new" young cactus 🙂and maybe make a group of them.

[@CactusCaffeine]

It is best to do the cut and propagate during its growing season. Spring or summer is the best time. If your winter is mild, you can do it early fall.

[@marfre35]

😊

[@ellamihaela333]

Hi, I just made a cutting on my cactus and I followed your advice and applied cinnamon on the cutting of the parent cactus. Should I just leave the cinnamon on it and will it be absorbed while the cutting dries or should I reapply cinnamon on it? Does it have to be a thick layer of cinnamon? Also regarding the cut section, I will let it callus, just as it is, for as you said 3 days to a week (I guess it's safe when it's not moisture anymore). I suppose I don't have to apply cinnamon on the cut section, right? And after I plant the cut section, how often should I water it until it grows roots? Thank you! I like your cactuses! 🌵

[@CactusCaffeine]

On the parent cactus, I leave the cinnamon on it. No need to reapply. For the cutting, I also apply cinnamon if it has a big cut. I just mist the top of the soil until roots form. A little moisture will encourage it to root. But if you live in a high humidity place, misting may not even be necessary and they will root in the soil just fine. Once it roots, water as you would your cactus.

[@ellamihaela333]

Thank you very much! ❤️

[@user-mj1dt6gs2r]

How to prune very dead prickly pear plant in a pot that already died. Are the roots salvageable?

[@CactusCaffeine]

If there is still healthy green material on the stump, it may still regenerate pads. But you need some heathy trunk, not just the roots to get it to grow again.

[@user-mj1dt6gs2r]

Thanks CactusCaffeine. I decided to not keep it bc I couldn’t find anything other than brown and beige on it. Appreciate your help!

[@kimrichardson8376]

I have a jade plant that I had to cut back, can I use cinnamon on the cut?

[@CactusCaffeine]

Yes! Cinnamon is safe for any plant. 😃

[@scotexscarrier8461]

my cactus have 1.5 inch spikes, ive no idea how to get it out the pot it needs repotting in something bigger , anyone !!

[@CactusCaffeine]

Wrap it with a wringed cloth or if it is small, I like to use salad tongs. Good luck!

[@scotexscarrier8461]

@@CactusCaffeine thanks for that i never thought about using tongs, that will probably work

[@christinakalaw6950]

Can I put coffee powder instead of cinnamon powder?

[@CactusCaffeine]

I have not tried that. 😉 If you do, let me know how it turns out.

[@vincentsiy1957]

Hi Ana. Im from the Philippines.. And just started on the jourmey of collecting cacti... Ive been binge watching your videos. And im learning alot.. ☺️ Thank you for doing them also... By the way.. Hope you can help clarify.. When Im repotting cacti.. Ive been putting Cinnamon on the roots. Is this okay...? Because ive seen some comments on the web that cinnamon repels water.. And that it should not be covering the roots.. The cacti wont absorb water.. Is this true..? Have you had experience on this one?

[@CactusCaffeine]

Hello and Kamusta po? I apply cinnamon both on a cut and in the roots. It has been helping me prevent fungus and rot. So far cinnamon has not given me any problem, only benefits. 😉

[@vincentsiy1957]

I washed them down to be sure. Because i read some comments that cinnamon can turn into slduge when they get wet.. some evn developed moulds. Perhaps from not so good quality cinnamon..

[@vincentsiy1957]

Do you have a certain type of cinnamon you use"?

[@benjaminjames2166]

sulfur works way better and just as cheap if not cheaper

[@mariabetonio9959]

Hi Ana...I have cactus with no name...any app suggestions that would ID a 🌵...salamat kaayo

[@CactusCaffeine]

I personally don’t rely on apps to ID cacti. Many cacti look similar and I have not seen any app that can identify cacti precisely. I just rely on the internet, I just google it. Many ID I also obtain from Instagram friends. 😉

[@ArlenePMCM]

@@CactusCaffeine Fantastic news! I've been wracking my brain trying to ID every one! Probably just need to know the genus ?

[@aBRUSHforCONFUCIUS]

Why don't you pit rocks. All my cactus live with rocks. It also gives them micro nutrients.

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