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"Boobilicious" (Scop x Bridgesii OP) 12" Cut
Grown by MiddleAfter1547. Sold through Mysterious Yard. The grower posts it to you in a box of its own.
$70.00
- Cutting
- 12 in long, 3 in thick
What you get
- An unrooted section, cut clean when you order it, then given 1 to 2 weeks to dry before it ships, longer when the air is very humid. It arrives with the cut face hard, dry and callused, ready to pot
- Packed by hand, boxed snug
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- Shipping
- $14 shipping, the same wherever it goes; $4 more in a box with another of the grower's plants as big or bigger, while that box has room · USPS Ground Advantage, tracked
- Arrival
- Dead or destroyed on arrival: photos within 48 hours and it is replaced or refunded — which of the two is the shop's call
About this plant
"Boobilicious" comes from Spiffy Plants who grew it out from Cactilicious seeds which came from Australia. This is a very melty Bridgesii dominant hybrid. This listing is for a 12" cut. Will be cut once purchased. Will apply rooting hormone if desired. Will need about a week to dry once cut.
Care for a cutting
Unpack the day it arrives, check the cut face is hard, pot it in dry fast-draining mix, give it a splash of water about a week later, ease it into full sun.
Full care notes
Unpack right away. Take the plant out of the box the day it arrives and brush off packing material. A plant that arrives cool, wrinkled or light is fine — it is just thirsty. Soft is a different thing: soft flesh means rot, and that is what the 48-hour guarantee is for.
Check the callus — cuttings only. The cut face should already be hard, dry and shiny, like a fingernail rather than like flesh, and then it can be potted the same day. If it is not, stand the piece upright somewhere shaded with good airflow until it is. An ordinary cutting takes one to two weeks, longer when the air is very humid; a slim pup is quicker and a really fat column slower. The face is what tells you it is done, and you will never be early. Do not put a fresh wet cut into soil. Once the face is hard, set the cutting one to two inches deep, just enough to stand it up. A rooted plant has no cut face and skips this step.
Pot it up. Use a fast-draining mix — roughly two parts gritty mineral to one part cactus soil. Pumice is the best of the mineral part and perlite works. Pot into dry or barely damp mix, never wet, and no deeper than it needs. If it wobbles, stake it: burying more of a plant is not safer, it is the commonest way to lose one.
Watering a cutting. Nothing on planting day. About a week later, a splash — just enough to darken the top inch of the mix, and no further down than that. A second small sip a week after that. The first proper soak only once you can see roots. There is no full soak before roots appear, and watering a cutting because it looks thirsty is the commonest way to lose one: it has no roots to drink with yet. Roots usually take about two months, and longer in winter, which is fine. Around week six it looks its worst, and that is normally the point just before roots. When a gentle wiggle near the top meets resistance and the ribs fill out again, it has rooted; never pull it up to check.
Light. Bright light, but ease into full sun. It has just spent a few days in a dark box, so give it shade with plenty of ambient light for a few days, then half sun, then full. Going from shade to hard sun in the space of a week is enough to scar a plant permanently.
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