Cacti And Care

Many flower growers are amateurs, to diversify their leisure and decorate their homes plant all sorts of indoor plants, among them you can find various indoor flowers, ornamental foliage plants, hanging and curling plants, and cacti.

A very interesting group among indoor plants are precisely cacti, they are beautiful in themselves, especially not whimsical to the conditions of detention and indescribably beautifully blossom.

Cacti are quite specific in their care, most species and varieties like sunny places, that is places with good lighting. From the correct location depends the intensity of growth, color and flowering of cacti. Choose windowsills from the sunny side of the room, for this approach the windows facing south.

The room temperature should not be high, about sixteen degrees, and in winter even lower. But this does not mean that the cactus will not grow at higher temperatures. In irrigation, he does not need much and feels great in dry and loose ground.

But the looseness of the soil should be monitored, as this is an important factor in care. In winter they watered and stopped altogether. For watering cacti you need to use only soft and well-settled water, you can boil water first.

Land for planting, as a rule, consists mainly of sand with the addition of sod and deciduous land. Also, do not forget about fertilizing, it is performed once a month, using special mineral fertilizers. Cacti, like houseplants, grow very slowly, and do not worry if your plant has added a little in growth during the year.

Propagate them using seeds, for this they are soaked in warm water and planted in wet sand. Pots or pots with seeded seeds are covered with glass, so the seeds germinate faster. Within a month must germinate all the seeds. Young plants are planted in separate pots and continue their cultivation.

Among the most suitable cacti for indoor growing, the following cultivars are used: Aylostera Fibrig, Ailostera Cooper, Aylostera Pseudomelkaya, Aylostera Pletvidnaya, Ariokarpus Triangular, Astrophytum Capricorn, Heliocerius The Most Beautiful, Saglima's Gymnocalycium, Dolichotel Ragged, Zigokaktus Chopped, Korifant, Lobivia, Lofofora, Mamillaria Pulp, Willem's Mamillaria, Mamillaria Elegant, Mamillaria Otlpuskovaya, Mimillaria Krasnocvetkovaya, Mamillaria Pfeiffera, Mamillaria Hooked, Mamillaria Shaf ƈ This, Notocactus Otto, Notocactus Maloborodavchaty, Opuntia, Maass Parody, Parody Zolotistokolyuchkovaya, rhipsalidopsis Gertner, rhipsalidopsis pink, Selenicereus grandiflorus, Selenitsereus Krylotsvetkovy, Ferocactus Gmina Wiślica, Hametsereus Sylvester.

Having met one of these names in a flower shop, you can safely buy such a cactus, there will be no problems in caring for it.