Question .... Echinocereus pensilis morangaya cultivation

[el48tel]

I have a multi stemmed plant. The largest stem is brown damaged(?) diseased(?). I was considering cutting it off at the base. Allowing it to callous. But also cutting off the diseased top. Attempting to root the base portion.
Any thoughts or suggestions?

[TomInTucson]

I have a multi stemmed plant. The largest stem is brown damaged(?) diseased(?). I was considering cutting it off at the base. Allowing it to callous. But also cutting off the diseased top. Attempting to root the base portion.
Any thoughts or suggestions?

In California these are grown in hanging baskets. Keep them well ventilated with nearly full sun. Water when needed if nights are cool.

[el48tel]

I have a multi stemmed plant. The largest stem is brown damaged(?) diseased(?). I was considering cutting it off at the base. Allowing it to callous. But also cutting off the diseased top. Attempting to root the base portion.
Any thoughts or suggestions?

In California these are grown in hanging baskets. Keep them well ventilated with nearly full sun. Water when needed if nights are cool.

Thanks.
It is on the southeast side of the GH. Although this faces the sun, it has the shade of some large deciduous trees in summer, and sunlight in winter.
I've had the plant for a few years and it seemed happy. I think the really cold damp summer has been too much stress for it.
I've cut the diseased top off and dusted it with yellow sulphur powder.

[Stuart]

Not sure if this is called an Echinocereus or Morangaya these days but it's rarely seen in cultivation in the UK. I don't think I've ever seen it for sale, not even at Ed and Betty Gay's nursery and it was part-named for them. It's one of the few 'best left in habitat' plants which produces lots of wandering stems and very rarely flowers. I'm not sure it can justify its greenhouse space though.

Stuart

[RayW]

Peter Berresford usually sells them when he gives a talk on Baja Cal.

[el48tel]

The origin is as suggested ... from Peter Berresford.
Ah well. It'll stay until in succumbs.

[StevenT]

Ian Robinson has 2 clones on his nursery website.

[Mike P]

I had one of these from JP a lot of years ago. It didn’t flower for me and eventually went into the compost heap as it was never an attractive looking plant.

[el48tel]

Sounds like it might need help to get it to flower. It might not be the belle of the ball, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I've lost other less sensitive plants this year. It will be what it will be.

[Simon S]

I agree Terry... I think they're kind of nice (though I do like hanging plants as they provide a different dimension to the growing space).
I received mine as a cutting from Peter Cowdell and it flowers quite regularly throughout the year. It gets decent light, but I don't treat it any differently.