Cut flat with clean tools let it scar over for about 3 weeks and then replant and it should pick up where it left off...

Thanks teebee, wasnt sure how long it needed to scab over. I think I will pot it till June. Still have 18" after the cut, even though I had to cut a large chunk off.
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This cactus has been super hardy for a 3$ buy from Lowes. It has seen -1F with no damage, just needs to be dry. If any one is interested while out shopping.
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I noticed a few flowers while I was working today.

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Good stuff!

Amazing how hardy those are..
I like to put perlite or small crushed gravel
under the cut,that way there is no soil actually
touching the plant so the roots stay dry when soil gets wet.

Chad

probably not the same variety but some of these do grow on the ground.

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Some dont

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I think this one is yours...

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Thanks for the advice Jim!

The first photo may be closer to what I have. Have you seen it bloom? The 2 I have planted next to each other came labeled as the same plant, id's must general. Its easy to tell that they are different. Here is mine in bloom.
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I like that! One day maybe. 😀

I saw a few in bloom out there,you have to be out early
cuz these bloomed at night,the one in the first pic had just
closed up when I got there...little bit of red under the flower pedals.

Yeah aaron these things do great and are easy till they get big 😉

Jim, you can see the red blooms off the other cactus. Showing it is definitely a different sp.

I have 2 trichocereus terscheckii, been in pots for 2 yrs with no growth. Guess this yr will be as good as any to plant em.

I wonder if your Tricho could have been mislabled...I have seen
nothing but growth out of mine-a little scary how fast it grows!

I would bet on it. From everything I read at Xeric World they are awful about labeling plants at Altmans and other nurserys.

We have been in the 80's F here and appear to be well past our last frost. With that I brought out the potted tricho with a few friends. Will wait till its hotter to plant it.

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Hopefully in about a month I will get most of these barrel cactus in the ground. I have plenty of room where agave decided to die on me.

Nice collection...I think one of my Tricho is similar to the
one to the right of your Saquaro...lots of good stuff!!!

Thanks Jim, can't wait to get some in the ground. My cactus have been doing better than agave lately.

Do you know the name of the Tricho between the Saguaro and the Pachy?

It was purchased from lowes in the same pot pictured above, as a trichocereus grandiflorus. It was in the ground for 3 winters before breaking off. Seems a bit hardy for your average house plant sold at Lowes, right?