San Pedro Drought time

Can anyone help me out with a length of time to drought a san Predro for potency. Tried looking, couldnt find anything other then to drought it, and I already know this soo yea....please =)

Damn, really?

What is wrong with your pedro mate, tried sampling it yet? you want to change looseing days into looseing weeks?

I havnt sampled it yet, its not exactly huge to take samples, unless you know how to test it without chopping most of it. It's about a foot and a half.
Idk whether its days or weeks is what I'm saying. I was thinking though about 2 weeks.

naah surely it sees longer periods than two weeks without rains
It actualy has a dry rest season.

Oh hmmmm, now 2 weeks seems hella dumb, it is a cactus hahahaha. W/e wasnt my idea, but anyways so then I'm thinking in the last months of summer I'll drought it. That way it grows this spring and summer, so I'm not taking from a small one.

also stress it by stabbing it with a sharp knife or skewer not to much

Yea, I'm not too fond of mutilating plants. But maybe.

just rememeber to not destroy the tips as you can plant those again, and new pups can form where the cuts are made ...

let it grow. when it's 3' tall, take two cuttings, one for use, tip for plantiing. then you have two plants, one trip.

grow from it

Yea I already got plans to clone.

you don't need to stress it. you got enough stress for both of you. if you really want to stress it, cut it two weeks before you prepare it. It won't die (unless it's puny) for many months as a cutting.

I think keeping it happy is your best bet though.

peace

maybe you're just waiting to water for spring? If it is in the ground, just leave it in a place out of DIRECT sunlight until it starts to show ANY growth. Once it shows growth, give it good stuff (they LOVE worm castings), water and move into sun.

I say move it into sun, but they really like diffuse strong light. If it turns yellowish, it's probably getting a sun burn, the needles also seem to get more knarly with more sun.

whatever you do... in watering season... keep a steady regument of watering interval, or you may grow skinny patches...

deprive it of sun as well mescaline is a defence mechanism the more stressful conditions(within reason) its in the more mescaline it produces!

There is a yearly cycle for pedro; it goes dormant in winter. Most of the thinning that ANC brought up happens when people try to keep it going through dormancy. I'm able to do what I think is close to it's natural cycle because I live in Texas and it has a real long growing season, between 9 and 10 months. During the dormant period it is best to bring it inside and don't let it get much light, and most important DON'T WATER UNTIL YOU SEE GROWTH AT THE TIP!!! I actually drape light weight fabric, like a T-shirt, over them and check them every once and awhile...nothing ever happens until spring though, here about a month or month and a half ago.

You don't have to bring it in if it only gets to about 30 degrees F where you live, any lower and any young tips will die.

I love my cacti

Oh yeah, if anybody does know how to keep them producing all year I'd love to know how.

thanks and peace

Thanks for all the info

ANC said:

whatever you do... in watering season... keep a steady regument of watering interval, or you may grow skinny patches...

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hah i learned that the hard way...

pinkus said:

Oh yeah, if anybody does know how to keep them producing all year I'd love to know how.

thanks and peace

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umm ive had a san pedro since February last year and its been growing since i got it. i didnt know they had a dormancy period. Maybe cause i live in miami?