The Hot Pepper

I had a feeling it would be that. I wonder how it felt coming out?

Wire cutters do, though.

I would have used tongs or something. What kind of cacti?

One of them was woolly, I don't know what the other one was except that it readily drops little bits of itself that grow quickly. They were in a 6" clay pot for about as many years, so I couldn't use tongs or anything like that without damaging them. They're both about a foot tall, so I turned the pot over and caught them. It hurt, but now they're in a 12" pot with better quality soil.

Maybe invest or borrow some welding gloves next time. I live in and grew up in the desert, so I definitely sympathize with you. Cacti thorns hurt and the worst part is you will feel the little splinters for the next week.

No splinters surprisingly. I guess that's a good thing about cacti with thorns an inch long. Although the cactus I'm not looking forward to repotting is the "cthulhu cactus" which is a graft between two others that was kept in the shade too long. To get to the sun, it made a ton of long, thin, spine covered "tentacles" that reach a foot and a half across the table. They aren't rigid, and moving the cactus causes them to bounce unpredictably. These ones aren't l...

Yes?

I have one which is at least 2 meter tall and needs repotting. What can I say I'm afraid haha