Succulents and cacti enjoy wide popularity at flower growers. Exotic beauty and the seeming unpretentiousness of these plants attracts fans, and the collection of the blossoming cacti really impresses.
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- - description of species of cacti.
Instruction
1. Quite often the decision on purchase is made spontaneously, under the influence of momentary rush. At the same time understanding that it is necessary to create somehow due conditions for growth and development of plant comes is later when the cactus begins to perish.
2. To avoid disappointment from purchase and not to lose the money spent for plant, it is necessary to approach acquisition of cactus more responsibly. It is worth to remember that cacti are very photophilous, for normal development it is necessary to place them at the southern and southwest windows. Only relatively the small number of species of cacti can grow at east and western windows, and northern windows categorically do not suit them. Before purchase it is necessary to think over where the plant will be placed.
3. In the majority the plants offered for sale in shop are not calculated on long cultivation as they were grown up in greenhouses in the intensive way. To accustom cacti to apartment conditions quite difficult, but it is possible. Before visit of flower shop it is desirable to get acquainted in detail with possible species of cacti and to choose the least whimsical grade.
4. If there is opportunity, it is better to buy young plant in the greenhouse or greenhouse at once. Upon purchase it is better to choose plant with dry substrate – it will serve as additional guarantee that its roots are in the normal state. It is better to choose small cactus, up to 5 cm in the diameter – such plant adapts to new conditions better while the adult cactus can long hurt, adapting to new conditions.
5. Choosing cactus, it is necessary to examine attentively it on availability of wounds, scratches, various raid. The healthy plant has to be dense, glossy. The cactus should not have softening of stalk, especially it touches root neck. It is attentively necessary to examine and top – wreckers are quite often brought there. In the presence of damages on plant it is better to refuse its acquisition.
6. Sometimes it is possible to meet the imparted cacti on sale. If the choice is stopped on such plant, it is necessary to examine attentively the place of inoculation on availability of decay, raid and brown spots. You should not forget that the imparted cacti are short-lived, besides pretty fast lose the decorative effect therefore in the near future it will be required to buy new plant.
7. The cactus with healthy root system has to sit densely in pot. If the plant drops out from the place, so the earth lump is overdried, and roots are damaged. Too it is better to refuse acquisition of such plant.
8. It is undesirable to buy the blossoming cacti, kind of effectively they did not look – it is reached by active pre-sale preparation of plants, after blossoming such plants will be very weakened and will demand the strengthened leaving.
9. After acquisition the cactus needs to be replaced in other substrate and new pot therefore it is better to buy plant during the period from spring to fall that change was not pernicious for cactus. The new pot should not be big – its size has to correspond to the root system of plant, availability of drainage holes is obligatory.