I can only look at this as my plant getting a death of character and grace under pressure....maybe that is going a bit to far.

Please , if anyone has "problems " , please join in and show us your wounded and how you dealt with it. When you do this we learn options, and hope.

Looks to me to be on the way to full recovery. P.saundersi is one of the most cold tolerant in the family. Mine has never had a lick of damage even when temps touched freezing. Plus,I have the dwarf version. It right now looks like a small gray baseball glove from the 1940s!

Yours has even bloomed. Mine is 11 years old. Not exactly a fast grower being a dwarf.

Looks like you have done the best you can - good luck.

We had a night that was supposed to be 36º and got to 25º where I left my plants out.. The door was left open during a dip to 16º.

Good job. Hopefully you're out of the woods.

Good luck and I hope they survive!!

I think Joe will be fine, and scars add character :-)

here's one of mine... Euphorbia sapini. It was outside in a long stretch of cool, rainy days last summer and developed a good sized rotten spot. I hollowed it out and dusted with cinnamon and protected him from any more rain. Scarred for life, but doing fine.

And then there's my poor Gymnocalycium mihanoviccii variegata...

in better days

He's never had the strongest root system, and this winter I neglected him and he lost all roots and was at death's door, so...

Jury's still out on this one, but so far so good :-)

Poor Joe. Speedy recovery Joe. I'm still pretty new to Pachys so when my young'uns got a little soft and sunken I was ready to pitch them out but a friend asked if they still showed life. They still have green leaves so he says they many make it.

This is only one of many restorative projects that I have going on.

There is the 18yr.old Astrophytum ornatum that was in decades old soil. It also had been forgotten in a 15º cold front and lived beyond. It lived through a out break of maggot like bugs in a rotten spot a decade ago. It gets new soil in a couple of days.

I cut down one very tall cold scarred and rotted blur columnar cactus and cut the remainder into sections.

I have a dearth of cold damaged and dehydrated aloes that need much attention beyond me taking dead leaves off of. They finally got some water on them today.

BUT then there are the no longer walking dead. So it goes.

wantonamara, for your holey cactus, you could scoop it all the way through and then find a little toy car and have it driving through it.

I hope it goes well. Please show us if it does.

Wan, I have found P. saundersii to be a reluctnt grower for me. Mine barely leafed out last year. I just checked it and it looks like I am going to have to amputate most of the top.

I have some contributions to the hall of shame. People who grow Cyphostemma plants will tell you that they are finicky. They grow great one minute and start to rot the next. Here is what's left of my C. currorii which was once about 7 inches tall.

A 20' aloe.... I can only close my eyes and dream.. But I would be beside myself with grief looking at that.

My consolation is that the cuts that led to this devastation are now 3 trees averaging 12+ feet. One of the 3 I trimmed in the past. Now that this has happened I have tarred its' wounds. I can only hope I have done it before something has infected it too.

So , is there any life left in the mother . Will it live on in a new abbreviated form , or is it due for the dump.

I actually get a lot from the 'Hall of Shame" shared between others. Today , I learned about tarring aloe branches. What tar product do you use, just incase I find myself trimming a tree aloe in Costa Rica. I also like to see that others have t botanical failings and activities going on in their yards like I have in mine. We see all these gorgeous pictures of gorgeous plants but I lean more looking at the unfortunates.

Hey Stuptidlazydog, What did you use to scoop out your hollow hole in your plant?

I think mom is destined for the dump. She has left me with 28 chances for her to live on though. I use Morrison's Tree Seal. I tarred the ends of all the 28 truncheons as well.

Wantonamara, I used an xacto knife for cutting and scraping it out. I like your sharpened spoon idea better.