How to transplant cactus

For a beginner cactus, it is important to learn to transplant cactus. It is worth considering that in the absence of a competent approach, this event may be unsafe as for him and for room cactus. There are certain rules for transplanting data from exotic plants that need to be explored to adhere to in the future. If you do this procedure correctly, in the process of cultivation, cacti will feel great and please you with your appearance.

How to transplant cactus: why do you need a transplant

Cacti are unusual plants - from tiny with large spectacular colors to giants height in a few meters, blooming is quite inflating. It should be noted that the principles of cultivation of cacti are radically different from the rules of care of deciduous indoor plants. Much will have to do with accuracy on the contrary. The correct selection of the soil followed by a cactus transplant is a very responsible process, which largely defining the further development, growing and flowering of this plant.

Often, a person who took the cultivation of cactus for the first time, the question arises, which he did wrong. A couple of months ago, acquisition was made (in the store, greenhouse, in the bazaar) in the form of a cactus, then the plant was confused for some time and died. The thing is that after buying a cactus, you must follow so that it has been successfully adapted to the home environment. The fact is that most of the cates sold are grown in greenhouses using special stimulants that allow you to quickly get a plant with the desired commodity view. Nevertheless, at home to ensure the same conditions for cactus, you can hardly be able to train the disease in the process of sale, the disease could like the pawless tick or sever. Consequently, if it does not take care of a properly after purchase, then the death of the plant is quite possible. If it will still survive in such conditions, then abundant flowering in the future wait is unlikely to have. To avoid such problems, you will need to transplant cactus at home.

In addition, the planned transplant requires a plant that too much in pots, as a result of which they were closely. If you have a significant number of cacti, it is convenient to carry out their mass transplant. Such an event should be planned in winter or early spring - in this case, in the future, during the growing season, you will not need to be distracted by transfer, because many events (regular irrigation, vaccination, dive, recovery) are not possible to transfer to the winter period. From spring to autumn, an active growth and flowering of cacti is observed, so the post-transid stress at this time can take away too much forces. Some cactusks claim that the most suitable time to transplant cacti is December, because in January many of them are already starting to bookmark the buds, in which case it is unwanted to disturb them. However, if you need, you can transplant cactus in another pot and during the growing season. Young cacti, under the age of 3-5 years, should be transplant annually. In the future, it will be necessary to organize their transplant in a year. Epiphythic cacti need it after being blonded, annually. In addition, all cacti after flowering should be replant, which came at the end of the winter season or at the beginning of the spring period.

How to transplant cactus: Preliminary preparation

Just acquired cactus must be placed in quarantine for several days, i.e. Locate separately from the plants already available. At the same time, it should not be water. After the plant adapts in new conditions, you can prohibitive it.

Before the planned transfer of home cacti also takes 2-3 days not to water them. Otherwise, a certain amount of moistened soil will be on the roots, and at the slightest injuries and roasters of the roots can adversely affect the health of the cactus root system, provoking the reinclosure.

How to transplant cactus: pick up soil

To grow a cactus, it is necessary to prepare a loose soil - it is required that it misses moisture and air. As the main component of the soil mixture for cacti, clay soil is performed, as well as sand - it is desirable to use a large river (it will be necessary to sift or rinse). Suitable sand after wetting will not stick with lumps, but crushes. You can also add sainted and washed zeolite granules from the feline toilet for feline toilets to be separated into it (those that are not commemorated), small clay, crushed brick and gravel. As the main component of substrates for planting cacti, garden land is used, as well as a universal soil mixture. In addition, instead of the Earth, the coconut substrate can be used, since it is sufficiently loose, it allows the roots of the plants to breathe, while characterized by almost neutral acidity. It should be noted that the coconut substrate in briquettes as a result of wetting can swell several times, so it will be necessary to pre-wet and dry it, and then add to the soil. To properly transplant cactus, it is necessary to prepare not too cold and not crude (dried or wet, assembled in lumps when compressing, but at the same time crumbly) soil mixture.

How to transplant cactus: Preparing drainage

For cactus, you will need to provide drainage. In particular, it is necessary in cases where the pot is equipped with a small diameter holes, or if several cacti sit down in it. It should be noted that the drainage holes do not always save the roots from the oversaturation of water and the subsequent loading, as the flower pot is usually placed in the pallet in which the excess water flows, and it does not always have time to drain it on time. Thus, it will be necessary to place the drainage layer in the planting capacitance, which is approximately 1 / 3-1 / 6 from the pot volume. To do this, it is possible to use a washed with hot water crumples, crushed crushed stone or brick, as well as pieces of wine plugs of 4-5 mm or foam. You can also add an egg shell into the drainage chopped in a coffee grinder. It should be noted that when the plants are transplanting, the old drainage must be thrown out, as salts are accumulated on it.

How to transplant cactus: soil preparation and pot

If you transplant a healthy plant, a new fit for landing should be chosen with a size of a little more than the previous one. Slowly growing cactus can be transplanted into the same pot, simply replacing the soil with a new portion. Before entering the landing, the pot should be disinfected by pulling it with boiling water. The soil stands throughout the halfway to warm up in the oven.

How to transplant cactus: pull out a plant from pot

Prepare everything you need to transplant, it will be necessary to carefully remove the cactus from the pot. To do this, it is convenient to use plastic tweezers. In addition, you can apply kitchen sponges, wire or folded into several layers of the paper strip (they should be wrapped with a barly plant). Next, you will need to flip the pot, knock on its bottom and carefully pull out the cactus. If the plant is "baked" to plastic containers, it should be slightly "clipping" it so that the Earth moves away from the pot. In addition, it can be separated from the walls with a knife.

How to transplant cactus: landing

When transplanting cacti worth considering the following recommendations:

• a healthy cactus has a developed root system, so removed from the pot together with the earthwomen and intertwined with it roots. If the roots are broken, you are visible to beeping or dead roots, this suggests that the plant is ill, as it is weakened due to the inappropriate conditions of content, especially the convergence. If during the Cactus transplantation, spoiled roots (drunk, as well as dead), they will be needed to be cut into small scissors. Cut roots should be sprinkled with wood ash. In this case, it is necessary to place a plant in a potted pot of smaller volume, and in the soil add more sand, mixing it with small pieces of charcoal;
• if the roots of the cactus are tightly tired by the earthen com, it is not worth picking pieces. It will be necessary to move it to a new planting container and add soil there. If you purchased a plant in the store, most likely it is planted in a peat, which is not suitable for permanent growth of cacti. Consequently, it will be necessary to remove the remains of the old soil mixture and move the plant into more suitable conditions for it. If the peat remains are hard to remove, the roots of the cactus in warm water should be counted, and then carefully remove the remaining peat fibers;

• a drainage layer is placed on the bottom of the bottom, and then a small layer of the prepared substrate room temperature. After that, you can start landing of the cactus. It is required to be located in such a way that the roasting neck turns out to be slightly lower the top of the pot. Cactus roots should be accurately straightening, it is necessary to pour a substrate from above. The shortness is not worth the soil, it will take a slightly tapping on the walls of the tank so that the soil mixture is evenly distributed between the roots of the plant. Stalver should not be immersed in the ground, otherwise it can develop its rotation. In addition, due to the contact of the stem with the moistened soil, it can be sworn in the form of a dry crust;
• if there is a fairly narrow roasting neck, the cactus can accommodate in a pot too stable. To consolidate it, you will need to put on the sides the so-called upper drainage - small pebbles or pebbles. They should not be too small, otherwise the dense upper layer can create an obstacle to the penetration of air and drying the soil;
• plants of considerable size that will not be able to fasten with the help of pebbles, it will be necessary to tie to supports. Do not put them in too large capacity, as the soil can go into them. In order for a pot with a cactus of a large size turned over, it should be put on a stone in the form of a stone.

Reduing a healthy plant, should not be watering for three days. If its roots are damaged, it will be necessary to refrain from irrigation over the week. After landing, you need to put pots with cacti in a shaded place, the sun should not be exhibited in the sun for several (4-5) days. If the air temperature indoors is at least 20 ° C, it is possible to spray the transplanted cacti from the fine spacing, and it should not be allowed to appear on their surface of large droplets of water and moisture flow into the soil.

How to transplant cactus process

To plant a cactus process, it will be necessary to carefully separate it from the parent plant with a sharp clean knife. The cut outflow must be withstanding for at least three days in a cool and dark place. After it is finally sourced, it is necessary to plant it in a small pot (with a diameter of several centimeters more than a cactus), into a moistened sandy soil. The process should be applied to it cut, not sprinkting on top. In the future, it will take periodic watering that should be performed as accurately as possible while the cactus does not allow strong roots. After rooting, you will need to transplant a cactus process in a pot with a drainage layer and a substrate. In the center of the pot will need to make a small recess in the soil to place a young cactus in it. His roots are slightly sprinkled with the substrate, not tamping.

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