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title: "My cactus has been helped! Lol The fake flower that was hot glued on…"
description: "My cactus has been helped! Lol The fake flower that was hot glued on has been removed. Sadly, my cactus didn’t come out unscathed- when I got the flower glue…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/vOLjreBcQ-OpqrHIhVSc4w/Pd6JdVhbtJP6cwqeSHP6aN"
community: "The Cactus & Succulent Circle"
author: "Jester :p"
published: "2025-03-29T21:50:30.263135Z"
language: "en"
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# My cactus has been helped! Lol The fake flower that was hot glued on…

_Posted by Jester :p on 2025-03-29_

My cactus has been helped! Lol  
The fake flower that was hot glued on has been removed. Sadly, my cactus didn’t come out unscathed- when I got the flower glue to loosen enough, it ripped out a few spines along with it, plus some small bits of glue are still wedged in there, but this will probably come off with time. Stores really need to stop doing this. Cacti already have beautiful flowers, there’s no need to falsely advertise something that’s already amazing.

For anyone else who has this trouble:

Get some rubbing alcohol and get it on the glue to dissolve it (turn your cactus towards the ground so the alcohol doesn’t get into the roots)

Run it under some HOT water. Warm water didn’t work. Also try not to get the water into its roots

Wiggle it around, if it doesn’t come off just yet, rinse and repeat until it does!

![Attachment 1 of 3](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/1lGdCG3RGGnJgn0tHCNmyX8PMzswHqSjA41wpqvWrs8/AUVJ72niQXG9_CcWgPFKtw.webp?size=large)

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## 6 comments

### David commented on 2025-03-30

Yeah I hate when stores hot glue straw flowers onto cactus they really don't need to that give cactus time they will flower on there own in time

#### Jester :p replied on 2025-03-30

Exactly!

### Lover of Cacti commented on 2025-04-05

Omg thank you this happened with Odette, I thought her pink flower was real. But they did it with super glue instead of hot glue and the tip shriveled up. Luckily she healed but she has a weird head now. And the thing is this species already have pink flowers so stupid

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/cxi3549c3304mBZIODOgXIe-VcuaeY2PdAc3WkOOWDc/4-ZPjf2-SYOBoA1-q3wAdw.webp?size=large)

#### Jester :p replied on 2025-04-05

Sorry to hear that! Glad your little guy is doing better though! Now she has a little hat :)

### Lover of Cacti commented on 2025-04-05

Also I have a baby Mexican pincushion cactus., he gon turn out like this? That's adorable.

#### Jester :p replied on 2025-04-05

Thanks :D they’re very fun plants

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