Pruning the dead Roots off Cactus when Re Potting

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Guys :-D In this video I prune off the dead roots when re potting my Ferocactus.

[@Luna-sv5ut]

Thanks Lyn and Hans, a great video!! Love that old guy, it has quite character 😍

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you love the root pruning video Luna :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Hans and me for a terrific Tuesday XXXX

[@suzilifeart]

Очень милое видео ! ♥♥

[@desertplantsofavalon]

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[@EccentricNature]

Very cool. Lots of great details.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Thursday XXXX

[@EccentricNature]

@@desertplantsofavalon lots of health and happiness to you as well. 🙂

[@chezgirlrose7654]

Thank you Lyn, another informative video. 🌵💕🌵

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you enjoyed the video Cher and found it informative and thanks so much for all of your fantastic support and for all your wonderful comments and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Queensland, Australia and have a fantastic evening XXXX

[@fatpicklestudiomagdalenatu8990]

That is beautiful cactus!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Wednesday XXXX

[@joebeard4588]

Cool video

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Joe for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Wednesday XXXX

[@sydneyhunt6681]

Much plant power to you both xxx😎xxx hope all safe stock up food things will get harder 2 years be ready my friends 😎

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So true Martin :-D yes we are stocked up with all the food and soils etc, and not leaving the house at all

[@petercalthorpe7966]

Great job Lyn, you never even got a spine in your hand . 🌵🌵🌵⚘😗👍👊

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haha I know :-D I usually get a good lot of cactus acupuncture every time I repot haha :-D thanks so much Peter for your wonderful comment and for watching and Hans and I are sending you and Ellyn lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Downunder for a wonderful evening XXXX

[@petercalthorpe7966]

@@desertplantsofavalon 😂⚘😗

[@desertplantsofavalon]

@@petercalthorpe7966 XXXX :-D :-D :-D

[@Cactimania]

Great video Lyn 😊 I unpotted one of my Lophophora today because it didn’t look too good and didn’t take up water on its first watering, all it’s feeder roots had completely dried up but the tap root still looks ok, no signs of rot. Hopefully it’ll be alright. Great to see you using a similar mix to me with the pumice and lava rock, the Ferocactus will love being in that now 😊 Thank you for sharing with us as always Lyn, from Edith & myself to you and Hans, be safe and well and have a wonderful evening ❤️😊🌵☀️🌺🌸🌼🏜

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you enjoyed the video Daz and we are loving the pumice and lava rock so much and we will be using the grit as well with many of our other cacti we will be repotting and I will give your soil mix video and channel a shout out as its a BRILLIANT soil mix, I went through a lot of my other Ferocacti in the polytunnel and changed over the soil to your mix too

[@yaddahaysmarmalite4059]

I've recently learned that in S.E. Asia its common practice to prune cactus roots everytime they repot them. They'll trim all the roots back to the primary roots. There's a youtuber, The Plant Prince Ph, who has an excellent demonstration of it. he prunes the roots of an Astrophytum in the video but does mention some other species such as Ariocarpus.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

I LOVE watching Kim @ThePlantPrincePh videos, he is awesome and I really loved the vids he made of pruning the roots on his Astrophytum, and Kim has really good results from pruning the roots back, thanks so much for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a brilliant Wednesday XXXX

[@godisgreat8462]

Love watching your videos every day. Keep up the great videos

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you love watching my videos Ken and thanks so much for your continued support on my channel too and Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Japan for a safe and sunny Wednesday XXXX

[@morrisparkintheozarks6831]

I don't use gloves either, more of a hands on kinda guy I guess. Have been known to use an old towel or old t shirt around one if it's too spiney. My large old Ariocarpus retusus lost its roots last year due to peat in my cactus mix. Burnt the roots off the caudex. Had to do the same as you have done. Repotted in a dolomite mix , treated the caudex with rooting powder & mixed in a little with the soil and it has since rerooted. I've had cacti bark up like that too, I notice lophos do this quite common, mine have done this , grown out of it. Then years later may come back. I did some reading on this and the reason is unknown as you said, it's said to occur on greenhouse plants more than out door plants. Who knows?🤔From Morris park in the Ozarks to across the Emerald isle, have a great Wednesday and best of luck rerooting! Peace,Love,Plants!!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haha so happy you like to not wear gloves when re potting too Clyde :-D I think we must have leather hands by now :-D Well done on saving your large Ariocarpus retusus too, I hate peat and all our new cacti we have bought last year are all potted up in it and I will b going through them all and removing it and potting up in this new soil mix too, peat seems to stick to the roots like cardboard and its so hard to remove from the roots without damaging them, and root mealies and fungus gnats love peat arghhhh, although /i use added peat with the epiphytic cacti but I hate it on the Desert ones haha, yes the scabbiness on these cacti is a mystery and its been like this for so long that I now its not a killer but I dont think this Fero would win any beauty contests haha

[@tertongnat2815]

Beautiful cactus! But it looks very dangerous 😂

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haah yes it does love to 'bite me' haha :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Wednesday XXXX

[@falzonp1]

Hi Lyn! very interesting video on how to prune dead roots of Cactus! It is very helpful! Is it normal to be so dried up after winter...that is without water? Thanks Lyn! Have a beautiful evening Lyn and Hans! We still have to be safe as the virus is still on! Sending you both lots of love!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you enjoyed the video Syliva, yes the roots can dry up a lot after Winter, this poor cactus was in desperate need of a root prune haha, thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a fantastic afternoon XXXX

[@Buzzardgirl13]

So glad you filmed this Lyn and as I found this very interesting! I probably would have thrown the cactus away as would have assumed it had no chance. Luckily these roots had not rotted but had they done and rot had gone into the cactus, would you have done an emergency cut at the bottom and let it calice over? Would the cactus then grow new roots from the emergency cut? Fantastic camera work by Hans 👍🏻 sending you heaps of love xxx

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you loved the video Paula :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful emails and I will reply back to you later

[@janetdietrich6861]

Thanks for this video. Can you please tell me what the "discoloration" is on the bottom because mine has the same thing. I always love your videos. Tks in advance

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Janet :-D so happy you love my videos and thanks so much for watching them

[@suzannelittle8150]

Hi, great video, but how long after you have repotted it do you water it ? 😀

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Suzanne :-D I wait for at least two weeks before watering again, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Friday today XXXX

[@billgolightly7203]

Thanks for sharing. As a general rule, is it OK to trim the roots back using your guidelines for dead sections?

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Bill :-D yes its safe to trim the roots back for any dead sections of roots too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@8pmSilhouette]

Another great video! Do you have a video about how to take care of rot at the top of a cacti? And do you have a video about what to do with blooms on a cacti after they dry up?

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you enjoyed the video Kellyn

[@jimini1976]

Some of my big prickly pear cactus is brown and scabby looking at the base . When people ask me why I tell them it had a bad case of acne when it was going through puberty. Before I saw this vid I was in my greenhouse repotting and clipping some roots,,,,syncronicity👍🙂

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haha at telling people your Big Prickly pear had acne haha :-D thats fantastic that you have been re potting and pruning roots too Jimini thats definitely synchronicity at work :-D Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Wednesday XXXX

[@TheHouseofChameleons]

Hi Lyn, I wanted to repot my healthy looking rainbow burst cactus but when I carefully pinched to loosen the soil, 2/3 of the roots fell off. Should I water off the rest of the soil, trim dead, dry for a week then repot? I am newbie.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi there, yes its best to trim off any of the dead roots and remove the soil, then let the roots fully dry for a week to allow the cut roots to fully 'callus' and then repot into dry soil and leave the cactus unwatered for another three weeks before you start to water again, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX

[@claudekim7876]

i think it's called desiccation. they do this to save moisture.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER and Happy Holidays to you XXXXX

[@guidodezwaan]

Can i do this any time of the year? I have 3 succulents that look dried out and i bet it's dried out roots. Or should i wait for spring over 6 months ..?

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi there, you can do this at any time of year if the plant has roots that are dried out, but if you prune the roots in Winter its best to pot back up into dry soil and keep unwatered until the Spring, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Tuesday XXXX

[@kaktus_cactus]

Hi, you mentioned sharp sand which do you use, pls? Before the lockdown I couldn't find any in garden centres so I may try online-thank you

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi there :-D the sharp sand I use is by a brand called 'Arthur Bowers' but you should be able to get sharp sand online too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Wednesday XXXX

[@brendakirk7250]

could somebody use cinnamon on the open wound on the root and then pot up in dry soil? Or is cinnamon not good for the roots?

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Brenda :-D yes cinnamon powder is great to use on cuts on cactus especially the roots as it acts as a bit of a rooting powder too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Wednesday XXXX

[@ΑΝΤΩΝΗΣΣΜΥΡΝΙΟΣ]

are those "scars" fungus infection or somthing?

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi there, the scars are due to natural corking on the cactus due to age and is not harmful to the cactus, thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic plant powered Thursday XXXX

[@meghakamath4674]

so is that just a dried up cactus? i had one small cactus that looked scabby too and i had to dispose it because i thought it was basically dead :/

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Megha :-D the cactus is fine its just the roots that are dead, but the roots will re grow again over the Spring and Summer

[@user-my7sy9zt1p]

It's a Saguaro Cactus!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Its definitely a Ferocactus but they can look similar :-D Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a safe and sunny Wednesday XXXX