Looks genetic, I don't see any tip damage.

by regolith1111

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  1. regolith1111

    I did buy this, thank you Lowe’s. I’m much more a cactus grower than euphorbia so have a few questions.

    First, is it actually an obesa? Do you need a flower to ID these?

    Ive seen crested obesa online but don’t see any dicots in a quick Google search. How uncommon ar dicots for these?

    Finally, does anyone have any suggestions on potting given it’s going into a tent? I have plenty of soil ingredients to work from. Is 10% castings, 10% charcoal, 20% granite chips, 60% pumice too lean? I was thinking to put it into a ~1 cup glazed ceramic bowl shaped pot.

  2. DownTheHall

    It’s definitely not true species E. obesa, I’ve seen these at Home Depot being sold by Altman. It’s likely a hybrid of obesa and infausta, but it seems that there’s no proper labeling with these, so hard to know for sure. They have a tendency to offset quite a bit, cool that yours is dichotomizing. For soil I’d say your best bet is to use a similar ratio that you use for most cacti in your particular growing conditions, they seem to respond very similarly in terms of watering frequency.

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