Deannarosee2
When I bought these moon cacti, they were both the same shade of red. Than, the right one started growing a “leg” that I since chopped off. Now, it’s turning orange and has a split in it. Is it ok??
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MoriahLove the stones on top!! But I have had two moon cacti and I’m struggling with mine as well. No suggestions but I feel your pain
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ChlayneThe colored moon cactus does not contain enough chlorophyll to support itself so it is grafted onto a dragon fruit stalk. It is parasitic and feeds off of the dragon fruit. When the moon cactus starts to fail to leach the nutrients from the dragon fruit, the moon cactus will decline and the dragon fruit stalk will start to grow. That was likely the leg that you cut off. Some people remove the cactus at that point and grow out the dragon fruit. Some even get flowers and fruit.
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Interesting, I made a post previously about the leg growing and people said it was because the plant didn’t get enough light and that’s why it was growing toward the window, and that I could cut it if I wanted to after I moved it closer!!
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That is normally why plants etoliate (reach for light) but these are a little different because they are grafted. I went back and looked at your other post and it was definitely the dragon fruit trying to grow. Moon cactus aren’t a very long lived species in general and once they start to decline, it can be difficult to bring them back.
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PougesVsKooksI have a moon catus to it’s growing a new plant not sure if it’s from a outside seed hopefully not
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