SayN Posted March 8, 2017 And treatment? (Just scrape it off with a knife?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theuserformallyknownasd00d Posted March 8, 2017 Looks like something pierced it and not some black rot? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strontium Dawg Posted March 9, 2017 If you zoom in enough it looks like harambe with a weird red nose 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted March 9, 2017 Looks like a bigger more evolved version of what my cacti has atm. Is that the only one? Just below it there's a smaller brown dot I can see which looks exactly like mine. Are there more or similar things on it. If it's related to the problem I've got it appears it's a fungus due to over watering, or high humidity. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SayN Posted March 9, 2017 I scraped it off and the smaller one beneath it... Here is the close up: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted March 9, 2017 I think your cactus has a red rocket lol 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Master B Posted March 10, 2017 Have you got kids mate?? I looked at your pic and the dood said what i was thinking. Pull it out and take another photo of both the spine?? And the wound. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SayN Posted March 10, 2017 Whipper-snipper cord perhaps! Mine just so happens to be red... As soon as I touched it the red bit fell out - into my terracotta gravel. Gone. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Psylocke Posted March 11, 2017 I think your cactus has an STD Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThunderIdeal Posted March 11, 2017 (edited) It was not a scale insect? That would explain why it had a digit of extruded goop. Not that ive ever seen scale goop harden like that.... Edited March 11, 2017 by ThunderIdeal Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DualWieldRake Posted March 11, 2017 Gymnocalycium mihanovichii 'hibotan' Share this post Link to post Share on other sites