The cactus raised with sand and gravel, spending the summer in summer, is completely stress-free, and the state is still very good!
Cactus is also known as "stone eater", the cactus in the original ecological environment, can not absorb water for a long time, creating a strong resistance of the plant itself, dense capillary roots are deeply rooted in the sandy soil, absorbing trace nutrients in the sandy soil, and trace elements, to meet their own growth needs, for several years, basically do not see any signs of growth.
Nowadays, the cactus balls that we can buy have been domesticated by horticulture, the so-called horticultural varieties refer to the plant species that have been domesticated by horticulture, the cactus of horticultural varieties, during the maintenance period, the mortality rate is often relatively high, and in the process of domestication, the resistance of the cactus itself has greatly decreased, and at the same time, the mortality rate has increased.
Raising plants in the family, cactus is relatively good, because other succulent species, the mortality rate during the maintenance period is much greater than that of cactus, prepare flower pots, flower soil, planted cactus, and then in the next five or six years are not need to change the pot, change the soil, seed ball balls, mainly clay pots, it is not recommended to use plastic pots.
The flower soil of the bulb ball, mainly sand and gravel particles, peat soil is used less, used more, easy to accumulate water, resulting in rotten roots, cactus prefers sand and gravel particles, fine particles, easy air circulation, but also helps the root growth of the ball, raising cactus, the growth state of the root system, directly related to the state of the ball, raising the root system, the ball can be more full.
My home-raised balls, are used with river sand and a small amount of sand and stones, there is no peat soil, raised cactus, the root state is invincible, easy to pot, in the face of outdoor high temperature in summer, there is no need to have a trace of worry, the plant root system grows well, and the state color is also different.
Clay flower pots, with river sand particles, this is the best choice for cactus, suitable for both north and south, the nutrient content in the river sand particles is relatively low, but it will not affect the growth and absorption of cactus, a small amount of nutrients, the cactus will be more solid, you want to use peat soil to raise the cactus more resistant, in the summer is less likely to die.
Although peat soil can also raise cactus, the cactus is very fat, very full, in fact, this is not a healthy performance, fat also indicates that the water and nutrients in the body are excessive, just like the human body, eat too much food, water, after a long time will be very fat, forming a nutrient process situation, in the summer, the high temperature season, excess water, nutrients, will lead to problems with the ball, either water, or death.
The cactus raised by the river sand is relatively thin on the surface, and the ball is not very fat, but the ball is healthy, there will be no excess nutrients, and the high temperature opposite the summer will not be too much of a problem.