HOW TO REMOVE FAKE FLOWER FROM CACTUS - HEAVILY GLUED & SPINY
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- HOW TO REMOVE FAKE FLOWER FROM CACTUS - HEAVILY GLUED & SPINY. There was so much glue adhering this fake flower to the cactus, and it is a spiny cactus too. If the glue was on a smooth surface, it's not that hard to get off. However, add the fleshy, fuzzy, spiny, tons-of-glue factors in, and we have a problem.
I had to do this to my cactus a few months ago. Thanks for the tips! Boy that took a while and now it's been growing since I removed it. Didn't know it was fake till I was doing research. Crazy they glue flowers on.
Stacey Here we grow again Absolute craziness. You’re welcome, and thank you.
Wow.. Didn't know they were fake flowers. I do see how the stores employees paint succulents in different colors and it makes me mad. Great tip
Fake flowers and paint, why, why, why? Cacti and succulents come in a vast array of amazing colors and have spectacular flowers of their own. I don't think that they need any help. Thanks for watching and joining the conversation. Have a great week.
Vegged Out painting plants or flowers should be a crime..
Omg!!!! 😱😱😱 I just literally bought one from Home Depot right now thinking how fake and pretty it looks! I did not know the flowers are fake!!! 🤨 I was brought to this looking for care instructions. Poor thing!
She Speaks Her Mind They aren’t always fake. Just check at the base of the flower. Have you seen the painted succulents? So gross 🤢
a hair dryer worked just as good! thank you for the help, im new to the whole cactus thing and was super confused when I found hot glue on the cactus...
Hair dryer for the win! Confusing indeed.
Whenever I'm digging through the racks to find new Cacti, I always want to buy all of them to get that blob of glue off of them!
I know the feeling :-)
I left the fake flower on it for about a year and the cactus grew big enough that it pushed the glue off of itself with it's needles. All I had to do at that point was cut the needles that were in the glue off of the plant.
I didn't know the flowers on mine were fake until the cactus started growing and the needles started pushing the flowers off, I then removed them with tweezers and my cactus is doing much better now.
How long did it take for your spines to grow out and remove the flower on its own?
@@ramieharrison9740 dont remember the exact amount of time but i would definitely recommend removing them by hand instead to prevent deformed spines
@@awesomegamer2341 Thanks!
Thank you for this tip. I wish I had it when I bought some of my cactus plants years ago. The glue on the cactus is toxic to them, if not taken off, I believe is suffocates the cactus from growing well. I’ve had many of my cacti die because I left it on them, but I didn’t know how to take it off without destroying the plant myself, and didn’t know how badly it effected them until later on when they started dying. It actually smothers the cactus from breathing and they do breath, like us, but in their own way. All plants do. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😥
It is so annoying when they glue flowers on cactus. I only buy the ones with flowers glued on when they're on clearance and then get frustrated trying to get the glob of glue off without major damage to the cactus.
Annoying indeed. Yeah, if these would've been more than a dollar a piece, I wouldn't have bought them. If they insist on gluing the "flowers" on, a dab will do. They will stay put just fine. Most people aren't putting their cacti out in hurricane strength winds.
For hot glued flowers suspended in needles above areole, a hot woodburning tool with a needle tip and some patience will free the glue mass in a few passes. Subsequent passes will clean needles of glue. Wish they would just use rubber cement instead of hot glue.
James Freeman Thanks for the tips. I’ll never understand the fake flowers, especially the hot glue. So unnecessary.
You're welcome, hope it helps. A long thin soldering tip might also work.
James Freeman, Oh wow that sounds good. I've been using the heat gun method and it's so slow and still clauses damage. I'd love to see you make a video about this.
Love your videos! I would love to see a video about the different growing mediums you use for different plants. :)
Thank you, and thanks for the suggestion. I do plan on making this video relatively soon. I get comments related to it quite often. Many thanks, and have a wonderful day.
thanks bro I did this back in march and I did it without that much damage it recovered well and it got taller
You're welcome, and thank you. Mine is recovering well and is bigger too.
Thank you, my sister gifted me a cactus and I was worried the flower would harm it. It's gone now, I'll do my best to take care of it!
To the people who say not to use heat guns I say this. They can live in constant 110°+ weather scorching in front of the sun all day long. I promise 10 minutes of heat isn't going to hurt your plant. If it does, I'll buy you a new one! (Clearly I'm not gonna be buying anyone's cacti for them, because heat isn't going to hurt yours)
LexusVIP 400 - I would do it again. Worked great for me 👍🏻
LexusVIP 400 Most can’t actually, select species can survive that yes however most not not out in the open with exceptions such as Ferocactus or Carnegiea species, yes this heat gun can work well if done right and responsibly but there is still a lot of risk with scorching the tissue especially with species like this Mammillaria in the video or commonly seen Echinopsis, Opuntia, etc.
Uuggghh I hate when they do that!! such a dumb thing to do to these beautiful cacti!
It's the worst! Luckily, this little guy is healing up nicely from the little damage that it suffered. But dang, did they use enough glue.?
So I'm new to the whole cactus thing and do the fake flowers harm the cactus
I don't know how harmful the fake flowers are to the cactus. I just don't like them. They might fall off over time, as the cactus grows, but I don't know that for sure. However, this flower was so heavily glued on that it would probably inhibit growth. .
Vegged Out ok thanks
You are very welcome, and thank you.
yes I seen flowers get smothered by the fake flower and the glue. I thought I was seeing things when I seen a purple flower bud get smothered by the fake flower so I removed the fake flower. it grew out and bloomed after I removed the flower. I ended up removing all the fake flowers.
The videos really helpful thanks,But the heat gun actualy kills the cacti sells when the temperature changes to quickly.
They don't want to sell boring cactus but they could use glues that are easier to remove. I didn't like the fake flower and I just used scissors to remove it. It took awhile. Fortunately the only damage was few spikes missing. I believe if you leave the cactus with fake flower the glue will eventually deteriorate but my cactus has much better looking flowers already and the fake flower just makes it look weird. If people have patience they can just wait for the flower to fall off but I guess I am crazy.
Is it okay to keep them like that . I recently bought a cacti and realized later that they were fake flowers that were glued on . I’m too nervous to remove it by myself I don’t want to hurt the plant 😢
What happens if you had sliced the top off?
How do I take off the fake flowers if the cactus is a very fuzzy one? There's two flowers, and they're both attached pretty solidly...however, I think it's a grafted cactus and the flowers aren't on main growing spots - is it imperative to remove them?
The cactus in this video was pretty fuzzy, and the method I used worked well for me. But, you probably can't avoid damaging your cactus, especially if it's very fuzzy. I don't know how imperative it is to remove fake flowers. I just don't like them. They might just fall off over time, as the cactus grows, but I don't know that for sure. Many thanks, and have a great weekend.
i saw these. i had no idea that they were glued on! that is sick that people would do that!
I was super mad when I saw a fake flower glued on mine, they got the glue in the cracks of my poor plant. I did my best to be vary gentle with it but a small chunk of it came off with a few spikes, I really hope it lives through the winter so I can repot it in the spring
Im just a Fangirl hows it doing?
@@pianomasher6691 unfortunately it died
what a scam!! Had no idea this was done. I almost gave one as a gift to someone very special, specifically because of the flowers. Good thing i found out in time. I would have been sooo embarrassed! In the store nowhere did it say these were fake! I would think this is illegal to knowingly fool customers like this. And whoever heard of selling plants with fake flowers!! I don't know if i should laugh or cry
Would I be able to get them off even after a few weeks..? Because I’m just now finding out they’re fake...new plant owner here 😩
I don’t see why not, but make sure they’re fake. Sometimes they’re real.
Vegged Out how can I tell if they’re real...? That’s one thing I’m scared of 😩
The straw flowers are somewhat brittle and non-fleshy. The newer fake flowers I've been seeing lately are rubbery.
I text Altman plants and told them what a deception that is... makes me so mad
Good job, I was worried you would burn it :)
Thanks. Me too :-)
whew plant says thank you!!
It is recovering nicely too :-D
These aren't fake flowers. They come from a real plant, the strawflower plant but these are harvested from the plant then are GLUED on most cacti species. As being a long lasting colourful plant that open and close even when dead and chopped off it's stem, this is why they are used for selling CRUEL cacti purposes. But when cacti bloom their OWN flowers, they DO NOT look like strawflowers and are soft like silk where the strawflowers are hard paper like and were to snap if bent.
Do they actually grow out a flower over time?
Cacti are flowering plants, so they all have the ability to flower. Many thanks, and have a great Thursday.
zombies in your backyard they don’t grow that type of flower but they can grow different kinds of flowers
My friend just got me a really small pincushion cactus with a ton of spine and a GIANT flower glued on, just looking at it infuriates me, poor thing!
Could you put cinnamon on the open wound?
I've never heard of cinnamon but I do know if you just leave it open it will start growing from the middle like most cacti do. 😊
I HATE when they put the fake flowers on them. The funny thing is that I have a cactus blooming right now with pink flowers that actually look kind of like the stupid fake flowers. XD. Most cacti I've owned have had crazy flowers that looked like they belong in Jurassic Park!
Ugh, they've upgraded their fake flowers to tacky looking plastic ones. They're even harder and annoying to get off! Cacti already grow beautiful flowers that are real, why glue on fake ones? Oh, right, year round color. 😒
Jalissa Parle
I’ve seen them 🤢
This is really pissing me of
Piano Masher 🤬
PLEASE... discontinue the music. It masks what you are saying for those of us who have less than perfect hearing. I came to learn something. NOT to listen to some kind of music that i would not have chosen to listen to in the first place.
Come on guy, let's be logical here. Put the blow torches and the tools away and give the 1.99 Walmart cactus to one of the neighborhood kids and go to a REAL nursery to shop for cactus.