The Hand (Opuntia Crest âRollercoasterâ) caught cooties from the dumb Golden Torch I took a chance on with a newish local shop. Honestly, the âpests, diseases and problemsâ part of this is another department, meaning Iâm upstream in the development cycle with my soils and endless structural tweaks to habitats. This is still a pretty new operation. (I didnât catch this happening because the hair and texture of the plant camouflaged it.) I started the cleanup process before, unfortunately, seeing the future of quarantine and how losing anything else was going to make yesterdayâs bad day into a physical and mental disaster. Would you hardcore folks have tried to save it? Note that itâs only three inches tall. I really liked The Hand, but onward. Farewell little alien high five.