Number of posts : 60 Location : Rowville Registration date : 2013-11-14
Subject: Oreocereus accident Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:14 pm
Was greeted with this on coming home from work today, looks like the wind got to it... ): My daughter was in hysterics for 20 minutes. Can't say I was happy about it either. Ah well...
Ended up cutting it off as was no way to put it back together. guess I'll have a 3 foot Oreo to plant out in spring. These guys seem to be a lot more juicy and have less reinforcing in the middle than many of the trichs
SneakyCuttlefish Moderator
Number of posts : 705 Location : FNQ Registration date : 2012-12-11
Subject: Re: Oreocereus accident Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:10 pm
No good mate. That's a decent sized oreo too.
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hydrophobe
Number of posts : 60 Location : Rowville Registration date : 2013-11-14
Subject: Re: Oreocereus accident Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:19 pm
yeah its now an Oreocereus horizontalis. Dam thing had a very skinny base from when i acquired it, the plant was about 45cm then, and never thickened up so guess it was always going to happen eventually.
Eck
Number of posts : 98 Location : VIC Registration date : 2012-12-04
Subject: Re: Oreocereus accident Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:35 pm
What bad luck. I worry that I overwater my columns which may be no good in the long run.
Looks very hairy - is it a Trollii? O.Trollii have been prominent at Bunnings this summer so I grabbed a few
