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How to plant
The first step to plant cactus is buy healthy cactus seedlings. Healthy cactus is a prickly thorns perfect (nothing is broken), the stem is not bruised, and the direction perpendicular to the growth (no side-tilted and balanced). You can buy a cactus in the shops or ornamental nearest nursery plant. You must buy the seeds that at least 3 months old.

Once you get the best candidate cactus, plant it in soil media chaff or sandy soil. If you buy a type of cactus with high Cerevius trunked, the size of the pot should be as high as where to plant your crops ½. If you buy a cactus Echinocactus trunked or round as thin as the cactus Opuntia trunked, then try to pot a plant it 5-10 cm in diameter larger than the size of your cactus.

Before planting, make sure that both pots to any land that you provide are dry. Then, spray the pot with a disinfectant to ward off disease culprit that may arise. Do the planting in the normal way, be sure to clog the soil and roots are really well set.

REMEMBER: wait one week before the first watering. This is done because generally the kinds of cactus have a dormancy period where he did not need water. Provision of water immediately after planting will only mislead the cactus root decay. Also, do pot or soil replacement periodically once every 1 year.

Generally, there are two types of cactus cactus that likes sun or vice versa, cactus that likes dark places. Do not forget to ask which type of cactus you when buying in nursery ornamental plants. Both types do not need a temperature of strange kok. Climate of our country is suitable for the growth of cactus. You just remember this: When drought is not anything left for long outside the home, as the rain moved frequently to avoid the rain. Cactus deaths often occur because of decay caused by rain.

Anyway, the temperature is too high or low can cause berdormansi cactus. If you’re berdormansi, he will stop growing for a while. You do not want your cactus dwarf, is not it? So you must closely watched the season when growing cactus in the house.

In the first weeks after planting, do not immediately hang the cactus in the sun. Once planted, place under the shade, or shadow. Only then, periodically you move to a more brightly. If the newly planted your direct drying, so you can burn cactus. If you plant a cactus seeds in the house, then make sure the air circulation in the house is always good to support the growth of cactus. No hard not to plant a cactus?