How to root Cereus Cactus Cuttings with NO soil or water
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- Hi Guys :-D In this video I talk about rooting cereus cactus cuttings without any soil or water, this is a good tip to help get your cereus cacti cuttings rooted ready for planting in the spring.
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Hi Guys :-D In this video I talk about rooting Cereus Cactus Cuttings without any soil or water, This is a good tip to help get your cereus cacti cuttings rooted ready for planting.
Amazing, what a wonderful idea! I was afraid of rot. The roots seeking water makes perfect sense. Thank you!
This method really does work so well, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX
Brilliant idea! I just got a big cereus monstrose cutting and was nervous about rotting it; I’ll definitely be trying this!
Thats brilliant you have a big cereus monstrose cutting, this method works so well for rooting them, thanks so much Marcela for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a brilliant weekend XXXX
Thank you!! Someone cut an arm off their cereus and sent it to me. I was going to pot it right away (never had a cactus) but I decided to look up about them first. I'd never have guessed to wait 2 months in dry air! You saved my cactus from rotting in February wet cold! Thank you :)
Thats fantastic that Alexis you were given a Cereus cutting, yes this method works so well especially in the Winter months, as there is very little chance of rot when they are air rooted this way :-D good luck with your cutting and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Sunday today XXXX
The desert plants are a true force of nature!! Thanks for sharing Lynn!😊🌵😊
That is soooo neat and the roots look terrific!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
I've never tried this method. Will try.
It works really well Sal :-D and good luck with propagating this way :-D 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 Monday today XXXX
This is amazing. It is all about surviving as with the humans i think. Great method, great video. Every time i hear my name in your channel i am suprised, I must used to it . Thank you guys. And the knowledge that Hans has is amazing. He must write a book. I hope he makes videos about his little garden. Spring is coming Lyn. I am sending you lot of love, hugs and kisses.
Are you still making new videos?
Thanks for the great information Lyn. I will have to try it this way.
What a great idea!! Going to try this the next time I have a cutting.
That's wonderful! I am amazed how they root without the presence of water! Never seen it before! Lots of love Lyn and Hans! Have a wonderful afternoon!
Its crazy how these cereus cacti will grow roots without any soil or water, cacti are truly amazing :-D 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
What an amazing idea.
Wow, never thought of doing this to root, Lyn! I am going to try it also. Thanks to Hans!
So happy you love this rooting idea Nancy :-D its worked a treat and Hans is brilliant at knowing all these little tips haha :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comments and for watching and Hans and I are ending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland for a wonderful Thursday XXXXX
Thank you for the great information!
Great idea to grow these dry in a glass Lyn! This probably would have helped me save a couple of clippings a friend gave me in December. The ended up rotting because I put them in dirt during the winter season. I will def try this method in the future!
Interesting, Lynn.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
Love,
Jura, from Brazil.
You are really the GODDESS of cactus. Thanks very much for the informative videos.
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-D sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from right across the Emerald Isle XXXX
Great trick!! Thank you very much Lynn, I'll try it next time 😁
It works so well especially for these Cereus types of cacti :-D thanks so much Lavi for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Friday XXXXX
I did as instructed, and have success. Thank you! I was concerned in my humid climate that I would rot my cactus by using soil and water. 2 months and I have roots trying to bust out of the base. Great advice!
That is FANTASTIC news :-D well done Deanna
Great good tips /
Wow, that is fascinating. I never knew you could get cactus to root like that. Thank you for the information.
Congratulations on your 22,000 subscribers. That is wonderful.
Thanks so much Traci for your wonderful comment and I am shocked with the subs haha and so happy to have reached 22,000 :-D thanks a million for all your support and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland for a fantastic day XXXXX
Opuntia are native here in south Texas. The best (only?) way to root an opuntia cutting is to simply leave one of the pads lying around. It will eventually put out roots, and then, buds for new pads. This also happens in nature all the time. When you see a big wild opuntia, there are usually smaller plants next to it that have taken root from pads that broke off the big plant and fell to the ground.
Beautiful specimens!
Thanks so much Kerry for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland for a fantastic Sunday XXXXX
Waoooo that is a wonderful phenomenon, God has created. I have a cactus potted and it is getting too long at on end so I was looking for a practical piece of advice to make another plant out of that one. Thanks from Pakistan for sharing such an amazing discovery of plant's intelligence.
thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-D and thank you for watching and sending tons of love and happiness and lots of PLANT POWER your way from Ireland to Pakistan for a FANTASTIC Tuesday XXXX
Thanks Lyn (please correct me if I spelled your name wrong). I began using this method several days ago on a golden ball cutting after watching your cuttings video. Good to know they need lots of sun while rooting. Have a wonderful day!
Your happiness is contagious take care have a good day love your video
So happy you love my video and my happiness too :-D thanks so much Rick for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending lots of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a terrific Tuesday XXXXX
Wow really informative video
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a brilliant new week ahead XXXX
Nice video very good info
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Wow they are cuttings? I would never think that haha they are absolutely massive
Its amazing how well they will root without soil and water :-D cacti really are so incredible :-D thanks so much for your wonderful support and comments and for watching and have a wonderful Plant Powered Wednesday today XXXX
OMG, I love your british accent! :-) Greetings from Hungary!
haha so happy you love my British accent :-D thanks so much for your lovely comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Hungary for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
Good video, thanks for sharing 👍🏾👍🏿👍🏻👍 planet rock
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
On Christmas Eve I found broken piece of a cactus that I've admired on my daily dog walk, especially when it flowers it has very large white flowers. Through your help and others in the TH-cam cactus community I now know it's species and how to save it and make it grow as it's now January 2019 I now also know to get this Cereus Peruvianus indoors as I've had it on a table callusing over as it is two feet tall and about ten inches thick. I'm going to try the air rooting you've just explained but I'm going to have to use a large pickle jar for a glass container and wrap the base with enough burlap to hold it off the bottom. Thanks for your informative videos ! 🌵
Oops p.s. I forgot to tell you I'm in southern California and it's been in the 30 degrees at night. 🏜️
Thats brilliant news and good luck with rooting your cutting :-D I have found the air rooting method works really well :-D Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Southern California for a brilliant weekend XXXXX
Excellent method. I'm trying it now. However I have one question how much sunlight should the san pedro cuttings be getting when they are rootless?
I purchased some 12" san pedro cuttings in early November and still no roots!! Should they be under the lights or receiving sunlight or in the shade?
They look very healthy dark green just like my others I just don't want to injury them before they get a chance to root.
Please help!
Very cool.
Thanks so much, its amazing how these cereus cuttings will root well without any soil and water, thanks so much for watching and your wonderful support, and sending you lots of love and happiness for a fantastic plant powered Wednesday XXXX
I'm gonna try this out once my girls grown up a bit more. Fingers crossed!!
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a wonderful new week ahead XXXXXX
Wow, I am amazed at how easy is it to have this plant grow some roots without any source of nutrients.
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland XXXXX
Hi Lyn, I received some unidentified cacti and epiphyllum cuttings will this method be good for these plants? any advice please.thank you.
another amazing video of how to root a cactus without soil or water, will definitely try especially the card roll method haha. thank you for sharing this. 5am now and this is the fifth video I've watch this early from you, can't stop clicking links up above hahaha. now then, time to go back to sleep haha
haha Katherine :-D I hope you got a good sleep after watching the vids, thanks so much for all your amazing support and comments and for watching,and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Wales for a wonderful Sunday ahead XXXXX
This video is a life saver. Thank you.
I will try it out tomorrow.
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Desert Plants of Avalon I am trying air propagation with cereus repandus (Peruvian Apple) but none of the cactus have rooted after 3 weeks. I have done the cuttings straight from a cactus so the bottom bit is very small and pointy. Spring has just started and the temperature is a bit warmer.
How do you suggest I make the cactus root? Should I cut the bottom so there is a larger flat surface area?
@@thunderbirdice Hi it sounds like you have cut the cutting perfect, and air propagation works well with Cereus cacti, the roots will come out from the middle of the core of the cactus, as well as from the areoles around the cactus, it will take longer than 3 weeks to root though, and usually takes at least 6 weeks to 2 months are often longer even in Spring and Summer, :-D good luck with rooting and happy growing to you XXXX
Desert Plants of Avalon thanks for the reply. Have a nice weekend
They do the same thing in nursery I visited but they use plastic cups. I’ll have to try it out.
i got in trouble in a dorm in college for rooting one of my 20+ orchids, succulents, trees, peppers, cacti, herbs in a shot glass (alcohol) because i ran out of plant pots. that case was a seedum adolphii firestorm cutting which is doing swell; however, its neat to see someone else doing the plant rooting in a glass method. also 3:42 reminds me of my shower plants since i usually brush teeth in the shower plus i had to pause to ask what is the orange/pink and green plant just right of center in the video?
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gotta describe the shower plants... the the Ionantha is putting off a baby i think because i accidentally left water in the center to rot it and i changed its display angle with tips pointing the ground 3 months ago. an aloe also grows in the shower window which is growing a new leaf each month or so.
I cant wait to get a columnar cactus or two since all of mine are low growers and i'd like some taller than myself, like you have. i do have an oak tree and a lime tree which will do that but there's something about cactii I like bunches :) im over six foot tall so I better get growing those slow growers soon
anywho your videos are super fun and your enthusiasm is a delight
OMG I need to plant my cuttings. This is a great reminder. Great video ♥
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland for a fantastic Sunday XXXXX
Beautiful plant!that is amazing how it rooted.
Question:
I have a night cactus cutting about 9''long, both ends are cut, how do I tell which end to plant or does it matter?
Thank you for sharing.
If you have access to a plant that is still growing in soil, study the way the spines face and you'll be able to determine top versus bottom, if you can't you can lay it on its side and they will root and send up multiple Sprouts like that also
Like usual, you are a source of useful knowledge. Thank you.
But, i must ask, how do I add phosphorous to my soils, without fertilizer?
Banana water can have you, I guess.
The glass jar rooting method is great for other types of plants as well, such a pineapple. Peel several bottom leaves from the pineapple ‘cutting’ until you have about 15 mm of bare stem, then sit it in the mouth of a jar. Add water, but keep the level about an inch below the stem. It will send roots out into the humid air inside the jar. No rot!
Thats fantastic with the pineapple cuttings, thanks so much for letting me know, and thanks for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic new week XXXX
can i root my euphorbia milii cuttings in this method?
Do you think this would work well with me echinopsis lagenformis, or trichocereus bridgesii. Also is it important that the towel be tight or loose to the cactus skin. As you may know trichocereus bridgesii has long spines so i snipped off the spines and then wrapped it with a good bit of paper but i doubt there would be much air flow especially because the plant has pretty shallow indents between each rib
I have the same questions please! Thanks so much! Will this work well in average 55% humidity?
When I take cuttings of any cactus, I air-dry them for at least one week per inch diameter of the cut surface. For columnar varieties, I immediately hang them vertically with twine in a bright, warm windowsill. Most of the time they will start to form root initials while hanging, and really take off when they’re planted.
Thank you for the tip! By the way, does it also work for a 5-centimeter-cactus?
So happy you enjoyed the tip, yes this rooting method will work for a small 5cm cactus too, but its best to keep it away from direct sun and excess heat until it roots, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and have a fantastic Friday XXXXX
Hey! Is it ok to fertilize seedlings? I have a few cactus seedlings growing and I want to try some organic tomato fertilizer to help them along 😌
Hi Cameron :-D yes you can lightly fertilise your seedlings but dilute the tomato fertiliser to about quarter the strength that they recommend for tomatoes :-D XXXXX
Thank you so much!
This is cereus! 😁
haha yes so true :-D thank you so much for watching XXXX
Root hormone In my store has on for hardwood and one for softwood ... Should I use softwood hormone gel ?
Hi Joe, I don't use any root hormone gel at all and have no experience of using it, there is no need to use any hormone gel with rooting Cacti cuttings, XXXX
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hello, i think i have an armed Cereus (have had that one almost all my life, over 20 years now). its about 50cm tall now, at the top its about 5-6 cm in width, but the bottom is half that width at best and is getting dark brown. how should i treat my cactus before it just snaps in half or falls over? :/
I have a old man cactus with a bit more roots in a terracotta pot and a good dry loose potting media, but I’m a quite nervous about starting to water it when spring begins. Do you have any tips?
she has a video thats just on that, just look in her video catalogue
Hi Kelly :-D yes here is a video that goes into detail on tips on how to start watering your plants and when to know the right time to start watering them again :-D th-cam.com/video/qXHQR9RWJIQ/w-d-xo.html XXXXX
Thank you for the comments! I've seen the video before, but I watched it again just to be certain ; ). I find it a bit hard to see if the old man cactus is drying out, because it has all these white spines covering the cactus. That's why I thought maybe Lynn has a tip, because I saw in a video that she also has old man in her collection. Do you just give it a try or does it give you other signs? Sorry, just love it so much! I don't want to let it die on me.
Hello I cut my cactus again because there were mealy bugs on the cutting, is there any way I can avoid them getting on there again?
Hi Anthony, I love to use Horticultural Neem oil on my cacti to get rid of Mealy bugs and also to prevent them coming back, here is a link to a video I have made on How to use the Neem oil: th-cam.com/video/PS2Ym8RDS9Q/w-d-xo.html thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and have a wonderful day XXXX
Should I wait after cutting it from the main one? Should I water the cutting anytime?
My big old cactus has begun to rot completely and I barely managed to cut some parts still green and alive today...still confused on what I should do right now!
(it's not a Cereus though, it's a "domino" type I believe, or similar)
Hi there :-D yes you definitely need to wait after cutting it even from the main one, its important that you wait a few weeks until the cut part has completely callused over and formed a white skin before planting it up into soil and treating as a cutting, you dont need to water the cutting at all. You can rest the Domino cactus ( Echinopsis ) on top of a empty pot to allow the roots to form but you can still go ahead and plant it up as a cutting after a few weeks or when the cutting has totally formed a white hard skin from the cut, and then plant up and treat as a cutting, Good luck with your cutting XXXXX
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I also wasn't sure...should I put it next to the window so that the sun hits it?
And after it has callused, should I put it in a cup the way you did in this video, or it's fine to just plant it directly?
@@IosifStalinsendsyoutoGulag Hi :-D I would keep it a little bit away from the window so it gets indirect sunshine and not full sun but bright enough so it gets very bright light, just until it forms a callus, once it has callused because your cactus is a globular one you can plant it directly into well draining cactus soil and then treat a a cutting, do not water but lightly mist the top surface of the soil only, and when you do only just enough to dampen the very fine top surface to help encourage rooting, but keep totally dry over the Winter as the cutting will still send out roots without watering, and then in Spring your plant should have re rooted itself and you can then resume watering as normal :-D Good luck with your Cactus and happy growing to you XXXXX
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Rooting in water supposedly produces fragile roots which don't take to soil well, can you speak to the durability of the roots produced by this method?
Hi there :-D yes the roots grow strong with this method and very healthy :-D thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland XXXXX
Thanks for the info
I’m gonna do this... I tried to let it sit in coco stuff for 3 week and nothing... what is the climate you are in ... like is it just indoors air conditioning.. kept in the dark ?
Patience is key, it can take months for some columnar cactus to root. The most critical part of rooting cactus is to make sure that the base of the cutting is fully healed or callused. I allow a week per inch of diameter of the actual cut surface. It doesn’t hurt to wait longer, a healthy cutting can live over a year with no roots.
The method in the video is superior because it exposes the base of the cactus to slightly more humid and “comfortable” conditions which really encourages roots, but not rot.
Coir is a popular rooting medium, but the base of the cactus is hidden, and monitoring moisture levels is tricky. Also, you’ll be lifting the plant every week or so to see if it has rooted.
I simply hang my cuttings in a warm, bright windowsill using twine, and they root just hanging there. (Not nice roots like the video shows, just little 2mm to 4 mm nubs) The hanging method is very useful if you receive cuttings in the late fall or winter months.
Will these put roots during the winter ? I'm in arizona
Hi Gustavo :-D yes these cacti will still re root in winter although at a much slower pace than Summer due to the lower available light at this time of year, You are so lucky living in Arizona and if you can keep your cactus cutting on a sunny windowsill it will help it to root faster, but dont worry if you dont see roots as its normal at this time of year, it may not decide to start rooting until the spring now, but it should root once the longer days start to come back from Feb onwards :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a sunny Sunday XXXXX
I have a few cuttings of cereus and san pedro all in dirt on a window that gets direct sun , should I get them out of the soil ? Also I keep the blinds half open so they get some sun
@@fx4guy Hi there :-D I would keep them in the dirt and keep the dirt dry and don't water them at all now until the spring as they will still send out roots :-D XXXXX
Oh okay thanks a lot for your help I've tried many times to root cereus and san pedro but they've all rotted unfortunately
@@fx4guy Hi Gustavo :-D if you want to you can still remove them out of the dirt and then try to root them using the no soil and water method as in this video, and then once they have rooted then plant them up, if your cuttings that you have in the dirt have not already rooted, then you can try to root them with the no soil or water method too as in this video, Good luck with rooting them and I hope they will root for you XXXX
How much light should they receive?
Hi Alissa :-D its best to give as much light as possible but avoid very strong sunshine until the roots have established :-D ideally a bright position that gets some sunshine is ideal but away from very strong all day sun and heat until the roots are formed then once potted up give as much sun as possible XXXXX
How long does it take to root? Got some san pedros cuttings and it's been 3 mos no roots. They look the same as they did 4 months ago. Thank u. Oh btw not sure if they are san Pedro's but they look like so.
Hi there, they can take up to nine months or longer to root, but if you keep them in a bright well lit position they will root in time, patience is the key,it took about 3 months for some of our cereus cuttings to root this way. but it took almost 10 months to root our other Cereus cuttings but they rooted in the end, Good luck with rooting them and thanks so much for your comment and for watching and have a wonderful Friday XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon hi there thank u for the quick response. So bright area but not in direct sunlight like a patio or something?
@@dubafterdub Yes you can keep the cutting in direct sunlight ( 4 hours ) but away from all day sunshine until the roots have formed, but some full sunshine for a few hours e.g 4 hours will be perfect XXXX
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My cactus just rots... Or how should it look exactly? It looks like its mushy and molded?
(S/N: these were a rescue. A man was literally throwing it into the trash. My first 🌵. It's 4 of them, well rooted but the columns look awful and all the tops are missing! Guessing due to being tossed in the dumpster. 😔) Any help is appreciated . Thanks
Did they survive?
The name for this cactus is cereus?
I have this!
This work on dragon fruit cuttings ?
Hi Joe :-D yes this works really well with Dragon Fruit cuttings too, thanks so much for watching XXXX
You can root pereskiopsis in water
Yes I root my Pereskioposis cuttings in water they root so well :-D thanks so much for watching and sending lots of love and plant power your way for a fantastic day XXXXX
Pereskia also!
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This is totally wrong idea I do same time thing but my cactus going to Rotten........
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Your name makes me think you are from a humid country. It might not work well in high humidity.
I did this in Ohio where it is humid, and after 2 months, I have roots starting.