Give them too much water in the summer and the tiny seam that connects one rib to the next will actually begin to split open like a ripe peach. As these cactus take up water the ribs widen to increase overall diameter. Think of them as an accordion with the ribs close together to shade each other when internal moisture is low. Keep these on natural rainfall prior to summer bloom, then irrigate after flowering to encourage new shoots with fewer or no flops.Ĭompulsive hand waterers should be careful with barrels and saguaro too.
I learned the hard way that kindness makes the wood weak in very upright species. The irrigation had driven them to grow better, earlier and more vigorous but at a cost. But once I began to develop the cactus border applying irrigation, the Tricos did an epic flop. I would come to discover that the Tricos survived the drought between owners of the property so they didn't flop that first summer. This is a cautionary tale about watering your cactus. I've seen the "lacewood" skeletons of this Trico and they are indeed quite fragile compared to cholla of the same diameter. If the rains are late or we start watering early, more flowers form on the heels of all this uptake so there's more weight to stress the thin fiber that hold these fellows upright. The weight of water and bloom causes Trico flopping. The rainy season fattens them up and then they bloom. This story is related to the seasons when cacti get water in the wild. Then shoots form that grow vertically along the horizontal stem like a linear hedge This is how the mother clump travels far beyond what she can achieve with close in crown stems. The parts that lie directly on the soil will eventually form roots, particularly if watered. The two inch diameter, four foot tall stalk tips over so the far the top falls feet from the mother clump. They're pre-programmed by evolution for climate change with a Plan B that ensures species reproduction despite climate change. Yet this is a survival mechanism of plants that aren't guaranteed conditions for their seed. It's hell on the flowers and looks shabby. At the weakest point it breaks off cleanly to flop on the ground. They do it in summer bloom time when the weight of all those huge white flowers is just too much to support. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.I am waiting for my big old Tricocereus to flop.
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