madgardener wrote:
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Walked over to it and poked it
carefully with a chop-stick and sure enough, my subtle feelings were dead
on.............it was dead

i have to decide whether some cacti of mine are dead (they look to be in rigor
mortis (at best) they haven't done a thing for 1.5 years ... but i'd hate to
kill them if they are still *alive*)
what's the chop-stick routine?
(btw my condolences for your cactus

, the spines were just fooling me into thinking it
was still whole. I've killed yet another large specimen. Cereus, is it
because ALL these cacti need cooler, dryer temps? Emphasis on the
cooler......the house was consistantly 76-78 degrees, and dry. (heat pumps
do that, dry out the air badly)

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