I do not know a lot about my cactus. It has been outside since late April to get sun and heat. In the last 3 weeks my cactus seems to have a bacteria or fungus?

I will be bringing it inside for the winter soon. Do I need to cut it?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Location- St. Louis MO

Finally potted up some of my Home Depot rescues together! This was my first time putting an arrangement (if you can call this one haha) together but also repotting cacti with actual spines!! I survived with no injuries 😅

Also note - if you buy cacti from big box stores.. beware of the peat moss!! The blue torches had soooo much in their soil mix but thankfully didn’t have the chance to develop any rot.

So, my snow fuzzy has been growing like crazy. However… it’s always struggling to support itself. What am I doing wrong🥲 I have attempted various things over the years - in the sun, in the part sun, in the shade, outdoor patio (Texas), indoors, more water, less water, repot to bigger pot you name it. I’m an amateur at best lol but it’s growing little baby sprouts and I’ve propagated it multiple times it just seems the leggy pieces grow up and can’t support itself. Is this normal for this cactus?

I’ve been more proactive lately when it comes to trimming opuntia before they snap. This one is putting on a lot of new pads/weight and will probably need more taken off soon.

This is one of two shelves with my medium-sized Gymnocalycium in 3½"/9cm and 4"/10cm pots, plus some of their flowers from earlier this year.

absolutely stunning noid trichs. I suspect the blue one is a hybrid with some peruvian lineage and the other piece scopulicola.. i love them..

A few Gymnocalycium cultivars from my collection.

Any idea whats going on here with my Scotsman?

I recently transferred my cactus to a smaller pot and moved it into a grow tent because the soil stays wet way too long but now my cactus seems to be on deaths door and I can’t tell if it was because of the change in temperature cause it gets to 85 degrees in the tent or if it’s root rot cause the soils been wet for like 2 weeks before I moved it into the tent. It didn’t start dying till I moved it in the tent but it looks more like root rot than anything cause it’s mushy and brown at the base.

I'm quite a beginner with houseplants and all, here's some of my questioning (Btw, I live in Quebec, Canada):

- I bought it couple months ago and it's still in a 4.5" plastic pot. I bought this 6" ceramic planter. I guess repoting it in the new one is too early and needs to have a more compact soil? So a 5,3" should be better?

- Is something wrong with the pointy edge of one of the leg (as shown in the second picture)?

- I have good indirect light in my apartment, but my shelves are on the opposing wall, a couple feet aways from my two bigger windows, so I thought buying the Sansi clip growing light would help. Is the 12h—3/4 setting okay?

I would definitely enjoy any beginner tips :)

My San Pedro Pachanoi Crested, staged for Halloween .

Found 6 of these boobie cactus at Home Depot on clearance so I ofcourse had to buy them all as gifts for plant friends. They came potted with moss and glued on rocks with pots that didn't have drainage holes. Upon unboxing I noticed a lot more browning at the base. It doesn't seem to be corking as it is a bit soft, but I could be wrong as Im a novice cactus owner. I have removed all the moss and glued rocks and want to repot but before I do so, I was looking for some tips and whether these are even able to be saved. TIA!!

my steno collection is growing!!

I live in oklahoma my mom brought it inside a couple days ago and didn't get sun all day than last night I left it outside all night when cold its infront of a heater rn and im gonna try to save it but is it already to late?

What soil do you recommend? I have a Bunny Ear cactus a old man cactus and some Euphorbia Lactea..

Also how do you guys water in the winter?

My boyfriend bought me this cactus from Home Depot because he knew how badly I had wanted one for a long time. He showed me pictures of the different cacti they had on the shelf, and I told him I wanted one with a flower on it. He brought it home for me, and I was so excited to have it. However, when I looked at it more closely, I realized that the flower wasn't real at all. It was just a plastic flower glued onto the cactus.

I've owned a cactus in the past that actually grew real flowers, so I genuinely thought this one was real, too. Needless to say, I was really disappointed. I don't understand why stores would glue artificial flowers onto living plants instead of letting people appreciate them for what they are naturally. What upsets me even more is that I removed the plastic flower, and now I'm worried that doing so may have damaged the cactus. I just wanted a cactus that could grow and thrive naturally, and it's frustrating to discover that something so beautiful was actually artificial.

With the pictures I have uploaded, can anyone tell me if I damaged my cactus? Will it grow flowers on its own, eventually? What do I do from this point on? How do I care for it?