Cacti - not the choosiest plants, and inconvenient conditions they can suffer very long. But in favorable conditions the plant will look it much better, and still - will begin to blossom.
Instruction
1. Growing up cacti, it is necessary to remember that practically all of them very much love light, but at the same time will be hardly glad to the direct hot sun. Some of them can suffer desert conditions, but not all, the majority will get solar burns and will die. The lack of light at cacti leads to pulling, deformation of stalk, underdevelopment of prickles owing to what the cactus weakens and can die.
2. Cacti love the southern windows on condition of shading - will be the sheet of paper enough. Especially quickly forest cacti perish from the direct sun. The cacti growing at northern windows demand additional lighting and smaller watering. The first sign of shortage of light - thinning and pulling of top of cactus and smaller, than is necessary, needles.
3. During the summer period the cacti need to provide airing, having placed them on the balcony or to thicket opening windows. It is the period of growth of cacti therefore in hot days it is obligatory to water well them and daily to spray. If the balcony is not glazed, cacti need to be preserved against cold rain and strong wind. It is convenient to expose small pots on open air in big plastic transparent containers with covers - for the period of bad weather the cover is closed, and it is better to carry away big, old cacti for this period to the house or to close package.
4. In the winter in apartments with long-distance heating the cacti strongly suffer from heat and lack of light. For this period they need to go to hibernation, to be at low temperatures without watering and to prepare for spring blossoming. The way out can be found in different ways.
5. Some leave cacti in the winter on the warmed balcony, but in this case there is risk of excessively low temperatures which can ruin plants. Some grades maintain to - 10 wasps, but the majority will get frostbite already at zero temperatures. If double-glazed windows allow, it is possible to put cacti for the winter between them, but also there is risk of drafts and frostbite. If it is a little cacti, it is possible to store them in the fridge till March, previously having dried up and having packed so that on them moisture has not got.
6. Ideal time to replace cactus with the smallest harm for it - since the end of March on May. Change is necessary to cacti as over the years even the most air-permeable soil cakes, and air flow to roots becomes complicated, and it causes risk of emergence of gnily.
7. The pot for change has to correspond by the size to roots, but not trunk: there are huge cacti with small roots and small which have root much more their. It is convenient to replace cacti after the wintering as dry soil with ease allows to take out plant, and having replaced, it is possible to bring him out of hibernation already in new pot. Do not replace cacti with buds, such cacti are not recommended to be touched at all until they prosper.