cactus – HaeunGarden

I wanted to have cacti but I couldn’t find any good quality ones at reasonable prices. So I bought cactus seeds from ebay. It was really cheap and I can see the whole growth process of cacti. Actually I’m not sure whether I can germinate these seeds but I gave it a go.

I bought paper pots and potting mix soil for the cacti seeds.

I bought Neobuxbaumia Tetetzo (15seeds £1.24), Echinocereus Viereckii (15seeds £1.50), Browningia/Azureocereus hertlingianus (15seeds £1.50) and I also bought 20 Bird of Paradise seeds.

These are the Bird of Paradise seeds. I thought they were fake seeds when I saw them for the first time because of the bright orange coloured hair on the seeds.

These small seeds are cacti seeds!

I put soil in the pots and made name tags with dates on it. I seeded all of them on the 26th of April.

I watered and put the seeds in the soil. I also covered the pots with clingfilm to keep them moisturised.

I’m writing this post on the 15th of may and I’m still waiting for them to germinate. The Bird of Paradise seeds are said to take 8 weeks to grow sprouts and cactus takes a few weeks.

My fishbone cactus is growing new sprouts but also rotting at the same time. I knew I needed to cut off the rotten stems but I didn’t know why this was happening. So I asked about this problem through a houseplant website.

A person said that if the cactus is experiencing cold temperature, they start to rot. Also water penetrating an open wound on the plant can cause rotting.

I put the fishbone cactus on a windowsill during the winter with the window open. I think that’s probably why it’s experiencing rotting. So my plant is stressed from the cold.

To save the rotten cactus, I cut all the rotten stems and took the plant out form the old soil and repot it with new soil.

It was growing one-sided so I also changed the positions to look even.

Tag: cactus

Growing cacti from seeds

Rotting Fishbone Cactus