San Pedro Cuttings

[AliasJonus]

Ok I know nothing about growing anything. I have no experience growing anything, not cactus, not weed, not even flowers, so please be detailed as you can when talking to me about this. I recently bought a San Pedro plant from a nursery and well after some experimenting I now have two cuttings that are about 7 inches long. My questions are these, what should I plant them in? Do I give them fertilizer of some sort? I live in a desert environment but the nursery told me that they will not grow well outside here particularly that they might not make it through the winter, so what conditions in the house are best to grow it in, direct sunlight or what?

I know that it is probably a pain in the ass to explain things from such a basic level but I would appreciate any knowledge that you can provide.

[cereus]

san pedro is an easy plant to grow at least from seed, if it has enough sun it wil grow fast and big. and it is one of the most used cactuses for grafting. A helthy cuting shuld root easely in cactus/sowing soil. but the cut surfice shuld be heald first. then put down in the soil ca. one inch. no fertilizer until it has helty roots and not to mutch or to litle water, it has to be forced to look for water to form helthy roots just as other clones.

hope it helps
cereus

[llamabox]

I am posting a cactus care sheet now. If you have any questions on it just ask.

[Scentless Apprentice]

I received my 26" San Pedro cutting yesterday. It's kinda callused over on the bottom, I'll probably wait to plant it. The green is fading out to more yellowish. It reminds me of an over ripe cucumber, color wise. Is it better to clone it out now or wait a few months after it roots. I don't want to double shock it.

[Mufungo]

I made some san pedro, erm soup, and I had one big chunk of a cutting left over. I wrapped it up in a plastic bag put it in the cupboard and forgot about it for more than a year. When I opened the bag after that time the cutting was a little pale but otherwise looked fairly healthy. Coming out from each end of the cutting were bulbous roots! Because I was too lazy to do anything with it at the time, I put it back in the bag and put the bag back in the cupboard for a few more months. Then, cleaning out the cupboard one day I decided to whack the cutting in the ground. It looked pretty funny cause roots were at both ends of the cutting, so one lot were underground while the other end stuck out. It looked like it was planted upside down. The roots above ground quickly died off and since then a few branches have grown. It's a very hardy plant!