Hello everyone, I'm in the Hainan of China, I have 20 San Pedro 10cm tall now, do I plant them outdoors or in flower pots, do these two methods have any effect on the growth?Can someone provide me with a planting manual?
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Problems with growing in tropical areas
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I'm not too familiar with your region, but if it's tropical they will probably love being outdoors. You can have them in pots outdoors and see how they grow to decide if/where you want to plant them in the ground. The biggest thing is probably ensuring you've got free-draining soil so that the roots don't get waterlogged.
There's a whole cactus subforum here that probably has a bunch of info that'll be of interest to you. Maybe take a look there and see what's of interest
There's a whole cactus subforum here that probably has a bunch of info that'll be of interest to you. Maybe take a look there and see what's of interest
Yes, in the forum I learned that the water retention of the cactus soil is not too good, it will lead to cracking and rotten roots, I am ready to use 70% stone and 30% mud.I'm not too familiar with your region, but if it's tropical they will probably love being outdoors. You can have them in pots outdoors and see how they grow to decide if/where you want to plant them in the ground. The biggest thing is probably ensuring you've got free-draining soil so that the roots don't get waterlogged.
There's a whole cactus subforum here that probably has a bunch of info that'll be of interest to you. Maybe take a look there and see what's of interest
there may be a post discussing the difference between in the ground and in a flower pot, I hope I can find it
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You can grow them pretty big in pots (and you can always transplant them to larger pots as their roots fill the pots they're in), which might give you some flexibility as you experiment with dialing in your soil mix.
What's the question about pots vs ground?
What's the question about pots vs ground?
I think that once the number of pots increases, it will take up space and be difficult to manage, and in the future I may have to plant hundreds or thousands of San Pedro, and I have a 4,000-square-meter plot of land that is not very well used
I just want to slack off，I feel that farming is much easierXD
I didn't make it clear what I was going to do, and I'm a little embarrassed right now haha
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I would grow them in the ground if possible (no frosts, proper ground, ...). It is much better.
Check Trichocereus.net | Free eBook: CACTUS CULTIVATION: TRICHOCEREUS (340 pages)
Check Trichocereus.net | Free eBook: CACTUS CULTIVATION: TRICHOCEREUS (340 pages)
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You may, one day, have thousands of plants. At the moment you have 10
Why not plant one or two in the ground to see how it goes and keep the others in pots for flexibility?
You are right, thanks for your adviceYou may, one day, have thousands of plants. At the moment you have 10
Why not plant one or two in the ground to see how it goes and keep the others in pots for flexibility?
Thanks for the book and the advice
With trichocereus, I wouldn't necessarily worry about soil moisture all that much, as long as it's relatively free from clay and decomposing plant material. Free drainage and aeration, aided by grit or similar, is obviously desirable. Quite a few of the active varieties are adapted to foggy mountainsides, so if you are in one of the mountainous areas of your island, trichocereus could make an ideal 'crop' for higher altitudes.
Several of us have found that undiluted urine can be used as a great fertiliser. I also feed feathers and my fingernail clippings to my plants (in pots) as slow-release fertiliser, along with dead fledgling birds that sometimes appear in my garden in the spring.
The winters get a bit too cold to leave my cacti outside where I am, but moving some of them has become rather cumbersome now that some of them are around 2 meters tall. A good sack barrow helps with this, but I'll have to have a rethink once they get too tall for my conservatory (which could be this year).
So, good luck with your cactus forest - I hope you collect some further interesting specimens in the coming years. Have you been growing from seed?
Several of us have found that undiluted urine can be used as a great fertiliser. I also feed feathers and my fingernail clippings to my plants (in pots) as slow-release fertiliser, along with dead fledgling birds that sometimes appear in my garden in the spring.
The winters get a bit too cold to leave my cacti outside where I am, but moving some of them has become rather cumbersome now that some of them are around 2 meters tall. A good sack barrow helps with this, but I'll have to have a rethink once they get too tall for my conservatory (which could be this year).
So, good luck with your cactus forest - I hope you collect some further interesting specimens in the coming years. Have you been growing from seed?
Aha, it's a hillside facing the sun.
I also hope to get the seeds, but I can't find them in China, and I am a little timid to go through customs if I want to buy them.
I'm lucky that the temperature in Hainan doesn't drop below 5 degrees Celsius in winter, I hope I don't mess it all up. a cactus mountain is exciting to think about, even if there are many things to overcome, I don't know if the biota in Hainan will hurt the cactus, and I don't know exactly pollination and cultivation
Make a raised bed amended with sand.
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