--- title: "I’m almost finished with Operation Get Big and/or Sick Plants…" description: "I’m almost finished with Operation Get Big and/or Sick Plants Outside. “Sick” means I’m sick of trying to solve pest issues and want to give nature a shot.…" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/OlSeW7UYSUWAjHlcxGdIQw/AIcnkyLGuurGO2Y8LnfwRT?language=nb" community: "Show your plants" author: "Dave_opuntiaface" published: "2025-05-01T16:33:02.052655Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/-3Zhu00gRMyepxPu7RgGWQ.webp?size=large" --- [Fellesskap](https://getplanta.com/community.md?language=nb) / [Show your plants](https://getplanta.com/community/OlSeW7UYSUWAjHlcxGdIQw.md?language=nb) # I’m almost finished with Operation Get Big and/or Sick Plants… _Lagt ut av Dave\_opuntiaface den 2025-05-01_ I’m almost finished with Operation Get Big and/or Sick Plants Outside. “Sick” means I’m sick of trying to solve pest issues and want to give nature a shot. More images in the comments, as I need to show the bedroom window :) Note also that my cactus collection has dwindled, a lot, in favor of Euphorbia. I mean, I still have like 20 Opuntia, but round ones with wool and a million bug apartment crevices. The soft succulents also get pests, but cleaning their bods is around 87% easier. ![Vedlegg 1 av 4](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/-3Zhu00gRMyepxPu7RgGWQ.webp?size=large) ![Vedlegg 2 av 4](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/5FMrL0-iTdyihggeH_u6DQ.webp?size=large) ![Vedlegg 3 av 4](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/3aAp4sKjTkWJ9Ctr-SirnA.webp?size=large) ![Vedlegg 4 av 4](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/rGSS6Q6kTGKO1d9J4dMcRQ.webp?size=large) ## 19 kommentarer ### Dave\_opuntiaface kommenterte den 2025-05-01 ![Vedlegg 1 av 4](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/uxEuIY05SrygKa0d46Mb7Q.webp?size=large) ![Vedlegg 2 av 4](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/xTbrVISBTAGMeYC4xq4_rw.webp?size=large) ![Vedlegg 3 av 4](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/-3iPl4SHSJOf6BdjJ1DLKA.webp?size=large) ![Vedlegg 4 av 4](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/wtK2Q_LLRnWXzy83SMUB8A.webp?size=large) ### Wolfen 🐺 kommenterte den 2025-05-01 Love your collection #### Dave\_opuntiaface svarte den 2025-05-01 Thank you. I’m starting to get more excited about it again as I’m cleaning, occasionally purging and switching out topsoil. Little stuff like this bloom keeps me going back haha. ![Vedlegg 1 av 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/Wie7kr57Qg-CrBvGwzGC0w.webp?size=large) #### Wolfen 🐺 svarte den 2025-05-01 Oh my gosh, I've never seen a paw plant that big before, or blooming #### Dave\_opuntiaface svarte den 2025-05-01 ps Your carnivorous collection is enviable. I recently retrieved a bunch of stuff from my old shed, including some huge glass containers. This used to be filled with some misc sucs (I didn’t know about drainage back then) and a Star Aloe that took over. I have bog dreams. ![Vedlegg 1 av 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/eWDFnEE1TuCrwY7T8rhFgg.webp?size=large) #### Dave\_opuntiaface svarte den 2025-05-01 I believe I smushed two (Home Depot) plants in there, but yeah. Pretty big. The tips of some leaves were getting munched on, so I banished it to a window sill for the winter. ![Vedlegg 1 av 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/mvaI4v-RRAqpIQntzLcuLw.webp?size=large) #### Wolfen 🐺 svarte den 2025-05-01 Hahaha i actually have a few sucs in no drainage pots, i think its just finding a happy medium with watering sometimes and the right sucs or cactus. Thank you. That will be an awesome bog!!! _1 nytt svar i appen_ ### Squirrelywhirl kommenterte den 2025-05-01 This is so impressive! ### Sunny kommenterte den 2025-05-01 Your family looks bigger to me. Maybe the individuals got larger. 🤣 I’m still living vicariously through your spiked plants. I gave away a rather large euphorbia what son was a toddler many many years ago. That was my last successful thorny plant. 🪴 #### Dave\_opuntiaface svarte den 2025-05-02 Hmm. I think I staged things and added some bigger pots ha. I'm really trying to get rid of the ones that are anemic due to non-reversable experiments. Ps I aw this yesterday - actually, I saw two of them. It's too big, but it would be both amazing and a decent investment, as another local shop sells them for $150. ![Vedlegg 1 av 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/kkIHnZ53SxWDddrt-O7elQ.webp?size=large) #### Sunny svarte den 2025-05-02 I haven’t seen the variegated. It’s cool! I’ve seen the euphorbia ghost on Etsy. I’m just look and keep scrolling. They are all expensive. This one above is cheap. ### Dave\_opuntiaface kommenterte den 2025-05-02 Here's one I don't mention. Those spots started red, and I thought it might be red wool (these get a crazy mullet). There spots turned solid black, so I sprayed it with copper fungicide. Next steps is probably the trash. ![Vedlegg 1 av 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/e5YZzJcMQH21m2YTIS06jw.webp?size=large) #### Dave\_opuntiaface svarte den 2025-05-02 Pre treatment ![Vedlegg 1 av 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/TB3diMcUR-KbYdQBtsThXg.webp?size=large) #### Wolfen 🐺 svarte den 2025-05-02 Oh no! I haven't seen that on a cactus, starting out red. It does look like fungus infection though with the yellow halos ### Wolfen 🐺 kommenterte den 2025-05-02 Is it into the very top? Maybe you can prop it and disinfect it #### Dave\_opuntiaface svarte den 2025-05-03 The black happened so quickly that I’ve not had many expectations. Here’s an example of the mullet lol. ![Vedlegg 1 av 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/8mO3xAGoROKv3U19KBpgVg.webp?size=large) #### Wolfen 🐺 svarte den 2025-05-03 Oohh it may be bacterial than, if it happened so quick. #### Wolfen 🐺 svarte den 2025-05-03 Omgs that is hilarious --- _Planta-fellesskapet (https://getplanta.com). Lesing er åpen for alle. For å poste, kommentere og like, skaff deg Planta-appen: https://getplanta.com/download_