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A cactus shell is a nice decoration element
So you plant a bowl of cacti
With cactus, sand and a bowl, you can conjure a desert landscape in miniature in an instant. A great idea to give away and as a decorative eye-catcher on the windowsill. This guide explains how to do it.
material list
The following material list would like to serve as an inspiration for you to creatively and individually plant a bowl. Pretty decorative items give the prickly plant society the special flair of a desert. There are no limits to imaginative ideas here.
Put the used earth in the oven for about 20 minutes in a kettle without lid at 150 degrees Celsius. In this way, any germs and pathogens are killed. Please clean the plant bowl and decorative items with hot water.
Step-by-step planting guide
By furnishing the shell with 3 different substrate layers, you will create an ideal living environment and a lifelike desert landscape for the cacti. This is how you proceed correctly:
Finally, sprinkle the quartz sand. If you cut a corner off the bag, the fine material can be precisely distributed. With mini figures, the cactus shell gets the finishing touch. You can put them in the sand or fix them with superglue on the decorative stones. In the end, spray the cacti with a fine mist of lime-free water. The desert beauties are cast for the first time after a week, when they have recovered from the stress of planting.
Tips
Bird sand is completely unsuitable as a substrate component for cacti. The lime contained therein drives the pH into the alkaline range, which the succulents can not tolerate. Likewise, you should leave Bausand left if you want to plant cacti in sand. Please use only the lime-free quartz sand recommended in this manual.