Why is my super healthy cactus dropping leafs???

by woodburnstove

9 Comments

  1. Terrible-Face-4506

    I hate when my plants shed! Guess you just have to wait for it to grow its winter coat/leaves!

  2. Friendly-Search3122

    Natural shedding đŸ„č it’s getting ready for its next life

  3. tangerinemoth

    if your plant sheds, make sure to keep it nice and humid to help them with the process, and don’t take the sheds away. they consume the sheds for nutrients!

  4. MagnoliaEvergreen

    Hold on. Wait. Are those PRICKLY PEARS!? and she’s HOLDING THEM!?

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  5. Who_TF001

    As good as dead. The “healthy” pads are actually a ploy by big cactus to get you to buy more cactus. Don’t fall for it. 

  6. evening_person

    Yikes. Those are supposed to be solid green. I think that plant has some kind of weird disease or maybe a fungus.

    Increase watering to twice weekly so it has the resources to fight off the infection.

  7. Neither-Attention940

    The thing with cacti is that people think one of two things.. (if not both)

    1) They think proper watering is ‘Not very often’ and that once a week is ‘not very often’ when in reality they need to be watered like every other month or two

    And/or

    2) ‘they only need a little bit of water’ when in reality they actually need a good solid water as long as they drain thoroughly.

    The bigger the plant the more water they can store so they can take more water but then ‘no water’ for longer periods of time.

    I have a tiny Thanksgiving cacti I started from 1 leaf section. It just grew its 6th one recently. It gets a couple tablespoons of water every other week ish?.. I just feel the leaves. Should feel firm.

    As for this plant?
 my guess is too much water but clearly it’s not healthy if it’s dying 😂😂😂

  8. Moth1016

    How is no one talking about the level of etiolation on this thing lmfao

  9. RedSparrow1971

    The preferred term is “molting”, needs neem oil to make the process less painful for the poor thing, rub in gently but firmly

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