Tips on Making a Great Substrate Mix for Cacti and Succulents?
KP Devlin
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Comments (4)Hi, I am interested in the tomatoes,peppers, and the gourds. I have some of the herbs that you want and also some hen and chicks. Let me know if this would be a good trade for you, Suzy...See More'Hard Soil' Mix for Cacti & Succulents
Comments (7)It is great for the grower, but not for the plants. It is a convience thing but for whom? They need a fast draining soil, and holes for the water to drain out. if you go back a few pages you will see that all of us have been preaching this, go back a few years and you will see the same. The roots need air, or they can die as well as we can without it. Air has the oxygen that they need to process their food. They give back clean oxygen during the day. That is why we are able to breath, and why you see advertisments all over to go green, to clean our air and get earth in balance again. I don't want to sound off like a biology class, but you asked and I responded the best way that I can. Norma...See MoreHelp IDing my cacti and succulents also basic care tips please?
Comments (11)Did you mention where you live? (Good idea is to put general location and/or growing zone next to your name...) Yes, Sempervivums could be grown indoors but usually they don't look their best. I am not sure if they are better off with having to spend winter outside (some plants have to have x number of cold days to grow well); unless you get them really good light during winter they usually look quite sad. During summer it may not make that much difference. But amount of light is always less indoors than outdoors. But if you don't have access to garden or deck-balcony, you have to just do it indoors. Many ppl have to, living in apartments without balcony or any other outdoor space. All of the succulents need lots of light otherwise they stretch as I already mentioned about Painted lady. I use lots of supplemental lighting in winter, and probably will improve even more next winter. here is same Echeveria purpusorum, still indoors (March) and blooming, under lights: Adding more perlite definitely helps....See MoreNeed help growing cacti/succulents from seeds
Comments (43)If you have no mold than there's no need to uncover yet. By about 2-3 month mark is when I uncover. It honestly just depends on what's going on in the container. My Ferocactus are uncovered now. Along with a couple other containers that had mold growing. As soon as I uncover the mold stops. I just have to remember to keep moist everyday. Instead of having them covered and not having to worry about them as much. I still have three covered. I will uncover those last three in a month or so. I don't like to keep them covered longer than three months because I feel like they start to need air circulation. Everybody does it different I'm sure. Whatever works:). As long as you keep them moist with some filtered light, they should be fine. All my seedlings are in a north west frosted bathroom window. This would never be enough light for most mature cactus, but the seedlings don't need direct sun. You can see the window in the above pic. That's how much light they get till about 3:30-4:00pm then as the sun is going down they get some sun. I don't know if you've seen this YouTube video, but this guy is germinating Astro seeds. I get the vibe he doesn't keep them covered long at all, but you can see he keeps them very moist because once you uncover the water evaporates pretty quickly:). Video:)...See MoreKP Devlin
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