--- title: "Just noticed my moon cactus isn’t looking so hot. It’s starting to…" description: "Just noticed my moon cactus isn’t looking so hot. It’s starting to turn yellow at the base and orange on the red part. Any thoughts or recommendations?" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/vOLjreBcQ-OpqrHIhVSc4w/HIw6dlKJS8Gk6j9UOEqh0g?language=ko" community: "The Cactus & Succulent Circle" author: "High desert diva" published: "2024-03-18T22:06:26.094527Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/RsA4DcfIRKF4mzB8zyOqeMM0Yjda5Qa5O7vKO8sFa0I/fas1LmhMRpK59Ht4B3_eFA.webp?size=large" --- [커뮤니티](https://getplanta.com/community.md?language=ko) / [The Cactus \& Succulent Circle](https://getplanta.com/community/vOLjreBcQ-OpqrHIhVSc4w.md?language=ko) # Just noticed my moon cactus isn’t looking so hot. It’s starting to… _High desert diva님이 2024-03-18에 게시함_ Just noticed my moon cactus isn’t looking so hot. It’s starting to turn yellow at the base and orange on the red part. Any thoughts or recommendations? ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/RsA4DcfIRKF4mzB8zyOqeMM0Yjda5Qa5O7vKO8sFa0I/fas1LmhMRpK59Ht4B3_eFA.webp?size=large) ## 15개의 댓글 ### Lana Layne 🌺🪴🪻🌵🌸님이 2024-03-18에 댓글을 남겼어요. I have found this type is a hard one. They absolutely love light first of all. I put mine in a south facing window with a grow light. I’m finding out that many cactus are being sold that have dry rot, so you don’t notice it right away. Start taking care of it and then awhile later you notice the base looking badly, just to find out the roots have rotted 🤦‍♀️ I have decided I don’t like soil for cactus. Because they either wet root rot or dry root rot. The drainage just isn’t there ya know? I like to wash all the soil off mine and stick them in lechuza pon, which is a rock substrate. #### High desert diva님이 2024-03-18에 답변했습니다. Thanks! #### Lana Layne 🌺🪴🪻🌵🌸님이 2024-03-18에 답변했습니다. You’re welcome. Also not sure what size pot that’s in, but I wouldn’t do anything bigger than 3” #### High desert diva님이 2024-03-18에 답변했습니다. Yup. It’s in a 4-5 inch pot ### Lana Layne 🌺🪴🪻🌵🌸님이 2024-03-18에 댓글을 남겼어요. But I can tell by what yours is in, that there’s definitely not enough drainage in the soil, like perlite ### High desert diva님이 2024-03-18에 댓글을 남겼어요. It is in south-facing window with lots of light. The soil was a succulent soil I bought from greenhouse but I’ll look into your recommendation! #### Lana Layne 🌺🪴🪻🌵🌸님이 2024-03-19에 답변했습니다. Yeah I quit using succulent soil for them… even with added perlite they were getting root rot and I most definitely wasn’t overwatering or under watering 😭 #### Lana Layne 🌺🪴🪻🌵🌸님이 2024-03-19에 답변했습니다. And that’s for all cacti \& some succulents honestly… just had no luck with soil. ### Cat님이 2024-03-19에 댓글을 남겼어요. yall these are nearly impossible to keep alive for long periods of time unless you keep re-grafting the moon cactus to a new dragonfruit plant, which makes no sense to me why they’re advertised as novice plants. they are anything but. it’s turning yellow if not due to overwatering is due to the moon cactus sucking all the nutrients out of the dragon fruit plant, as the moon cactus cannot survive on its own due to lack of chlorophyll, it is a parasite and needs a host #### High desert diva님이 2024-03-19에 답변했습니다. Wow. Oh geesh, I hadn’t even quite realized these were two different plants but that makes total sense. #### S.R님이 2024-03-19에 답변했습니다. Am I just understanding now that the coloured ball part is the ‘alive’ cactus and the green part is … not?! I learn so much from lurking in the comments 🤣 Seriously I’d love to know more, I have a few on my kitchen counter and two have already rotted from the base. #### Cat님이 2024-03-19에 답변했습니다. no, both are “alive” #### Stephanie🎋님이 2024-03-19에 답변했습니다. 🤯 #### Lana Layne 🌺🪴🪻🌵🌸님이 2024-03-19에 답변했습니다. This!!! You’re right on. The longest I’ve kept one alive so far is a little over a year. So we shall see, I have 2 in pon right now. I would say the yellow is due to overwatering because I haven’t noticed the moon cactus sucking all the water out of the dragon fruit plant… but I’ve definitely noticed these are being sold left \& right with the roots dry rotted 🤦‍♀️ ### Ryan님이 2024-03-19에 댓글을 남겼어요. I heard or read somewhere that people have more luck when the moon part is purple because then that means it has some chlorophyll. I think someone said they even had luck when they de-grafted that purple one, but that’s outside of my experience level. --- _Planta 커뮤니티 (https://getplanta.com). 누구나 읽을 수 있습니다. 게시물을 올리고, 댓글을 달고, 좋아요를 누르려면 Planta 앱을 다운로드하세요: https://getplanta.com/download_