Often people wonder how long you can deprive cacti of water. Also if the can resist freezing temperatures.

Here is the answer:

These peruvianus I found back today in my barn, almost no light and not watered for....... over 4 years.
They must have been exposed to < -10 Celsius at least over these years.

The same strain I made tea of years back and they are very active.


Also my yotes were not watered for over 8 months. Not a single drop. They were shrunken really bad but now after a couple of waterings they are back to normal again.

The peruvianus are not that beautiful anymore but they survived extreme conditions so to say.

I'm going to graft the tops to some left over stocks. The trichocereus from those stocks are really fast growers. Over 20 cm a year in a northern european climate (unfortunately almost no alkaloid content). Really curious if they boost the growth of these abused Peruvianuses.