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- Cleverly petting cacti - a field-tested guide
- This preparation optimizes the success - Tips & Tricks
- Step-by-step instructions - How to use it correctly
- Too early pikierten cacti lack the courage
- Tips
Cacti should not be pimped too soon
Cleverly petting cacti - a field-tested guide
If there is a lot of pressure in the seed hopper, it is time to poke cactus seedlings. Since the seedlings are still far from the size of adult cacti, the isolation requires special precautions. This guide explains how to do it right.
This preparation optimizes the success - Tips & Tricks
Since cactus seedlings grow more vigorously in society, we recommend a shallow dish for separation, which has a bottom opening as a water drain. Commercial Pikiererde is still too nutrient for most cactus species. More suitable is a mixture of cactus clay and lime-free quartz sand in a ratio of 1: 3.
Please clean the bowl carefully with hot water. Put the Pikiersubstrat in a fireproof bowl, sprinkle it with water a little and put a lid on loose. Slide the jar into the oven to sterilize at 150 degrees Celsius for 20 to 30 minutes.
Step-by-step instructions - How to use it correctly
Following the preparatory work, the isolation of your cactus seedlings is quite easy. How to do it right:
Spray the soil a little with soft water. For 3 to 4 weeks, the stressed-out cactus youngsters gather fresh strength on the partially shaded, warm window seat. In the aftermath, they assume a sunny location and get the same care at a diameter of 3 cm, as adult cacti.
Too early pikierten cacti lack the courage
As practical experience shows, cactus seedlings are stable enough for potting at the earliest after 9 to 12 months. Since the young plants prefer to thrive in society, it is no problem if they stand head-to-head for some time. Isolated too early, default rates of more than 60 percent are not uncommon.
Tips
The susceptibility of cactus seedlings to fungi can already be reduced in the run-up to sowing. For this purpose you purchase potassium permanganate in the pharmacy and make it with lime-free water a 3 percent solution. In it, soak the seeds for 20 to 30 minutes and then leave to dry.