1:27 AM, Sunday February 12th 2023
Hello Hxhexa, I'll try my best to address your questions and concerns.
For your cactus, you can see at the base of the plant, in the area I've outlined in red you can see that the lines that indicate other forms in the construction simply continue and then end, leaving gaps between them, this area of the cactus is left open, as such there's no indication of an edge in tridimensional space which flattens the form. Make sure all of your forms are enclosed, in cases like this you should cap off the construction with an ellipse or any other way appropriate for the form you wish to establish.
For the purposes of Drawabox such plants should not be chosen as reference pictures, for your own personal interests you can look around and find the method that works best for you, there are many methods for drawing trees, such as block ins, capturing the major forms and implying detail similarly to the way texture works in drawabox, or through other techniques found in painting. Look around for books, courses or other resources and experiment with drawing trees during that time.
And finally, yes, but also no. While you should be thinking of how it would feel to run your hands over the surface of the object you're constructing, remember that texture in Drawabox is based on cast shadows this means that your texture should be made up only of shadows that appear because a bump or part of a small form is blocking the lightsource and casting a shadow on it's own surface. This means that form shadows, aka shadows that happen when a part of the object is in shadow because the object's form itself blocks the light from reaching that side, as well as local color should be ignored.
If a shadow you can see in your reference is a cast shadow that is present in your structure's surface is caused by imperfections in that surface it's pretty safe to add it in, so in a way, yes, it's your own discretion to choose how much to draw in this case, since sometimes drawing every piece of detail you see can end up cluttering your construction, so remember the concepts introduced in Lesson 2 in the dissections exercise, and that leaving some areas of detail more dense and some more sparse can help direct your viewer's attention.
I hope my answers address your concerns adequately, best of luck.