my moon cactus is dying !!


	my moon cactus is dying !!

lori_gee

6-13-2007 2:42 PM

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plants, cactus, moon, garden

lori_gee says:

My son's remaining cactus is dying; it looks sort of like the red one in the middle of this picture. I am thinking of maybe putting it in my front garden and praying really REALLY hard for it to live. *sigh*

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of cactus to another to grow as one. This is actually done with a lot of 
different kinds of cactus for various reasons, but the one referred to as the 
"Moon Cactus" (just a catchy marketing name) is done as a novelty to keep the 
top, brightly colored one alive. It couldn't survive by itself because it 
doesn't have any chlorophyll - the stuff that makes plants green and makes food 
for them. These wild color variations are artificially induced by irradiation I 
believe. The top cactus is a desert cactus - Gymnocalycium mihanovichii. The 
bottom one is a jungle cactus, usually some type of Hylocereus. The bottom one 
has the chlorophyll and the roots to provide all the needs of the top plant. 98% 
of all of these colored novelty grafts are produced in Korea; they have the 
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