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Growing cacti from seeds

15th May 202115th May 2021 HaeunGardenLeave a comment

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.

Plants update

15th May 202115th May 2021 HaeunGardenLeave a comment

It’s been a month since I wrote the last post so I’m going to do an update on my plants !

I recently got more plants and they are moonstones pachyphytum, variegated rubber plant, corn plant (it was a my birthday present!) and a lot of seeds.

However there is a bad news that my Norfolk pine died. I did everything I could do, such as, using plant light, repotting, changing soil but it died.

I will upload everything one by one.

Lithop sprouts !

14th Apr 2021 HaeunGardenLeave a comment

I seeded lithops on the 27th of March and I can finally see the sprouts from the seeds! Today is the 14th of April so it took two and a half weeks to grow this much.

I seeded around 11 lithop seeds and only two has sprouted. Anyway I’m so excited because I didn’t expect the seeds to grow but it did!

Rotting Fishbone Cactus

5th Apr 2021 HaeunGardenLeave a comment

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.