dawnbeaver Posted April 6, 2014 Hi, any ideas what is going on here and what I need to do about it? Thanks... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Genius Posted April 6, 2014 Orange rot. A fungus! Potentionally fatal! sulfur,or even better a fungicide. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawnbeaver Posted April 6, 2014 Shall I remove the rot first? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hostilis Posted April 6, 2014 I agree. Looks like orange rot to me. Personally I'd take that pup off ASAP and graft it before it spreads. Treat with sulfur or like EG said a fungicide. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gr33ntea Posted April 6, 2014 Orange rot. A fungus! Potentionally fatal! sulfur,or even better a fungicide. Is sulfur not a fungicide though? I have powdered sulfur at home, if i ever get fungus should i use sulfur powder or liquid fungicide spray 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawnbeaver Posted April 6, 2014 Surgery tomorrow then... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Genius Posted April 6, 2014 Can´t see the whole Loph. Is that the main Pup? If so, i would remove the other and treat the sick One with Fungicide. If there is a bigger Pup below the infected One, take off the infected and treat the others. By treating the now separated Pup you can also try to save them all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Genius Posted April 6, 2014 Is sulfur not a fungicide though? I have powdered sulfur at home, if i ever get fungus should i use sulfur powder or liquid fungicide spray Yes, that´s why i mentioned it. But in some hard cases of orange rot, it might not be effective enough. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawnbeaver Posted April 6, 2014 Thanks guys, I'll have a go at it tomorrow and put up some pics. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hostilis Posted April 6, 2014 Good luck!! BTW, Is that loph variegated? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Myeloblast Posted April 6, 2014 If you notice, the 'variegation' is only around the area affected by fungus. The infection causes the change in color, and I've seen the exact same thing on more than one of my loph grafts. If you win the battle against the fungus, the plant will look variegated afterwards, but it's not really variegated... It's a good reason to be wary of some plants sold as lightly variegated on certain auction sites. Then again, variegated portions of plants are more susceptible to infection, so it can be hard to tell. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Genius Posted April 6, 2014 Agree with myeloblast. No variegation, just sick! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawnbeaver Posted April 6, 2014 Post surgery. I've cut away the rot, applied sulphur and attached the pup to a pc TP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hostilis Posted April 7, 2014 Nice. That's a pretty elaborate string hold there. Hope they take!! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawnbeaver Posted April 7, 2014 Thanks, it's not string its elastic so it keeps the pressure on when things shrink. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Genius Posted April 7, 2014 Not sure if cutting away the infection will help but i have my fingers crossed for you. I had cases when cutting it away made it even worse. Apart from that, it looks very good. Do you have a Monstrose Trichocereus as secondary grafting stock or am i seeing things? Why didn´t you graft directly on one host? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawnbeaver Posted April 7, 2014 The rootstock is a TP with a normal TP pup grafted to it. I had a pup comprised entirely of that diamond effect that I grafted to the rootstock hoping it would keep growing like that but it grew normally so I cut the normal bit off to do this graft. I'm hoping it will look interesting if it takes and doesn't have that horrid orange fungi. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutant Posted April 11, 2014 its usually not fatal IME, I never cut it away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
