Hasn't been sprayed. Need this to spread across the whole place.

no, it is dying, any educated ideas?

Animals piss on it?

Drought stress?

Pack rats will kill it like that sometimes from chewing on the right spots.

Sunscald

O.G. said:

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Doesn't appear to be dying. It appears to be turning purple. In which case you have zero right to ask what it is doing!

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Obviously strangling……

Do you see any cottony looking spots on it? Could be cochineal insects…….or cold damage

B-1 83 said:

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O.G. said:

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Doesn't appear to be dying. It appears to be turning purple. In which case you have zero right to ask what it is doing!

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Obviously strangling……

Do you see any cottony looking spots on it? Could be cochineal insects…….or cold damage

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I was um.....making a joke....as in, his pear was turning into Liberace......

You can come to my place and take all the *****ly pear you want.

Got too cold. Rare but happens

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Teach me your secrets! Count your blessings, it costs 20k/section to have it sprayed aerially. Would love for some of our pear infested areas to die off with no input costs.

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Funny you say that, had one of the local landowners we did daywork for that had a really bad pear problem on two sections get something in the pear that wiped it out within two years. Now, decades later, that place is still almost pear free. We did take some of the affected pear to our place hoping whatever it was would spread but never got the same result. The other place had pear so thick you couldn't walk in places so maybe it was easier to transmit between plants.

Was hoping someone had seen the condition of pear in my picture and could give a reason for it, a parasite or disease that would spread but I guess not.

I have seen pear around the place in a similar condition for the last 3 or 4 years but interspersed with healthy plants so I think that eliminates drought or cold as a causative agent.

*****ly Pear (Cactus) moth?

Wodanaz said:

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Sunscald

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Seems most likely, now how to get that fungus to spread! All the web tells me is how to treat it .

OP reminds me of how our prairie dogs disappeared due to bubonic plaque.

I'd bottle that stuff and have it ready to spread again, if I could.

I've seen that happen from time to time on patches, but never spread from there. On the off chance it is fungal it might be interesting to experiment making a spray from that infected patch. Throw it in a 55 gal drum with water and mash up. Let it sit a few days to ferment then pour off, filter and spray result on healthy cactus.

txrancher69 said:

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I've seen that happen from time to time on patches, but never spread from there. On the off chance it is fungal it might be interesting to experiment making a spray from that infected patch. Throw it in a 55 gal drum with water and mash up. Let it sit a few days to ferment then pour off, filter and spray result on healthy cactus.

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I was thinking about cutting up some of the dying pads and tossing them in a healthy patch.

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txrancher69 said:

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I've seen that happen from time to time on patches, but never spread from there. On the off chance it is fungal it might be interesting to experiment making a spray from that infected patch. Throw it in a 55 gal drum with water and mash up. Let it sit a few days to ferment then pour off, filter and spray result on healthy cactus.

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I was thinking about cutting up some of the dying pads and tossing them in a healthy patch.

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That could do it as well. It may be nematodes of some kind so try scattering some dirt after digging a few up. If it is a disease there must be a way to spread it.

I think you could bottle it and sell it for high dollar if you came up with something that killed a whole field off. I hate the crap!

Aggieangler93 said:

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I think you could bottle it and sell it for high dollar if you came up with something that killed a whole field off. I hate the crap!

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Have you ever tried making.........

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Aggieangler93 said:

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I think you could bottle it and sell it for high dollar if you came up with something that killed a whole field off. I hate the crap!

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Have you ever tried making.........

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rab79 said:

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txrancher69 said:

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I've seen that happen from time to time on patches, but never spread from there. On the off chance it is fungal it might be interesting to experiment making a spray from that infected patch. Throw it in a 55 gal drum with water and mash up. Let it sit a few days to ferment then pour off, filter and spray result on healthy cactus.

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I was thinking about cutting up some of the dying pads and tossing them in a healthy patch.

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This is the answer.