I was gifted this cactus and it’s blooming and beautiful. I need to repot it or something or like help it not fall over right? It seems happy but it is very spiky and very floppy and heavy.
It wants to lay down. I would give it a rectangular or oval pot it can lie down in.
sweetphotographer
There’s nothing to fix. This kind of mammillaria wants to crawl along the ground. Repot it into a wide shallow pot.
KeyEnd3088
Is that a pincushion cacti ?
Lophophoranut
Just cut the existing plant off about 5 inches above the pot and repot the branch that’s hanging into some new soil,,, the old pot. Will send a bunch of pups up
ProfessionalNo5932
They love to grow along the ground. Find a rectangular pot so it can do what it’s supposed to.
Mammillaria spinosissima, a prostrate growing cactus, meaning they crawl, lean, and loaf. They are not supposed to be upright. I grow my mammi’s in wide but shallow pots to accommodate their growth.
I got similar scenario when my single cacti started to lean no matter how I tried to prop it up. Introducing wider shallow pot and it just exploded with more and more pups 😇
WarChallenger
Oh no, these just do that. I have one that genuinely grew into an “S” shape, got root rot, and then gestated a clone army. These are just weird cacti.
trikakeep
That’s how they grow in nature, there’s no ‘fixing’ it.
Nurtureroftreasures
What a perfect beauty!
Dessert_Stomach
Look at her with her lil flower crown gazing wistfully out of the window. ☺️
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I think those just do that.
It wants to lay down. I would give it a rectangular or oval pot it can lie down in.
There’s nothing to fix. This kind of mammillaria wants to crawl along the ground. Repot it into a wide shallow pot.
Is that a pincushion cacti ?
Just cut the existing plant off about 5 inches above the pot and repot the branch that’s hanging into some new soil,,, the old pot. Will send a bunch of pups up
They love to grow along the ground. Find a rectangular pot so it can do what it’s supposed to.
You don’t! Accept it’s best wiener self!!
https://preview.redd.it/r1rcrntva6ig1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49c3cf24bbcdde97097ece8eff42342e85ade058
Mammillaria spinosissima, a prostrate growing cactus, meaning they crawl, lean, and loaf. They are not supposed to be upright. I grow my mammi’s in wide but shallow pots to accommodate their growth.
This also requires more light.
Viagra? Maybe?
https://preview.redd.it/l7fusrmcd6ig1.png?width=3356&format=png&auto=webp&s=a20c3c5d9a9157b2375fff3241980934a602fd86
I got similar scenario when my single cacti started to lean no matter how I tried to prop it up. Introducing wider shallow pot and it just exploded with more and more pups 😇
Oh no, these just do that. I have one that genuinely grew into an “S” shape, got root rot, and then gestated a clone army. These are just weird cacti.
That’s how they grow in nature, there’s no ‘fixing’ it.
What a perfect beauty!
Look at her with her lil flower crown gazing wistfully out of the window. ☺️