Speaking of cacti, many people are particularly familiar with it, but there is no good impression on it, because the cactus has more thorns, it is easier to prick people, and it is not very fond of flowering at home, nor can it be eaten, and it always feels useless, so few people raise it. But there are some flower friends who throw the cactus in the yard, don't care about it, and can grow for decades, and even grow into a cactus tree, which is also very peculiar.
The important thing is that after the cactus grows into a big tree, it will also bloom every year, and it can also be full of fruit, and the fruit is like a dragon fruit, which can be picked and eaten, is it very novel? After all, few people like to raise potted cacti at home, and it is even rarer to cultivate big trees.
But for some friends who like to graft, cacti are indispensable, especially grafting cactus family of crab claw orchids, arrow lotuses, etc., cacti is still very practical, grafted on the cactus or make arrow lotus, ephemeral flowers and the like, can bloom for more than ten years, grow very fast, but also bloom into a flower waterfall, probably this is also the most practical place for cacti.
In fact, the maintenance of cactus is very simple, if the temperature is suitable for light, do not care about it, casually can become alive, if the winter is not too cold in the southern region, it can really grow into decades of cactus trees, just like the cactus balls and cacti that can be seen everywhere in the desert area, it can be towering like the sky, it is really spectacular. But the flower lovers in the north do not want to think, can only potted cacti, winter temperature is low directly frozen to death.
The root system of cactus is also relatively developed, in fact, the maintenance is very simple, the soil requirements are not strict, even if there is no nutrient soil, the general pastoral soil can meet the needs of growth. If you can't put it in a pot, plant it directly in the yard and grow it, you can grow three or four large leaves a year, and you can grow to more than a meter high in a year. However, if you want to make its stem lignify and become a large tree stumps, you still have to raise it for decades, after a long period of thinking.
On the Internet, I saw a cactus tree in a southern mountain village, in the roadside courtyard, which has grown for decades, grown to seven or eight meters high, and can also blossom and hang full of fruit, and a lot of palm pieces emerge every year, which is very spectacular, and people who like it are willing to spend a lot of money to buy it, and I heard that some people have come out to 100,000 yuan, which is also a very valuable old pile.
There are many varieties of cactus, generally easy to grow into a cactus tree there are two varieties, one is a thousand sword cactus, the other is a pear fruit cactus, a thousand sword cactus leaves are relatively thin, but its branches are relatively easy to wood, it itself is a perennial green shrub, because its stem is round, it is easier to lignify into the trunk of the look, the upper part of the leaf is relatively flat and thin, and it is particularly easy to branch, its metamorphosis stem can present different states in different positions.
The trunk is cylindrical, with branches in the form of leaves, on which leaf-like long flakes grow, resembling leaves on a tree. In fact, they are some perverted stems, because it grows particularly peculiarly, branches strongly, aging quickly, similar to the shape of a tree, even if it is raised for a year or two, it is easy to grow into a tree shape. It looks mighty and atmospheric, and the Yushu feels like the wind.
It has the nature of cactus drought tolerance and heat resistance, easy to cultivate, casually can be cultivated to live, now the highest growing cactus in the country can reach more than eight meters high, is also a thousand swords, in the mountains of Sichuan region, its leaves grow rows of flower buds, flowers full of trees, very tempting, bearing one fruit after another, very productive,
Immortal fruit contains anthocyanins, very rich in nutrition, in the southern region there are often selling immortal fruit, just like the apples we eat, pears, as ordinary, its fruit is also growing a thorn, peel the peel, the fruit inside is similar to the dragon fruit, red and plump full of small black seeds, the taste is sour and sweet, but also more delicious. There are still a lot of wild cacti in the mountains, every year will be full of fruit, the locals will pick to sell, the price is not expensive, but eat the cactus fruit to be very careful, its small thorns are easy to prick the hand, not clean skin is also easy to prick the throat, eat this or have courage Ha.
There is also a kind of pear fruit cactus, it is also easy to grow into a cactus tree, its leaves are particularly thick, very easy to flower and hang fruit, even if raised for two or three years, you can also flower and hang fruit, and the fruit is also very delicious, sour and sweet. In the Mexican cactus kingdom, the cactus is one of the important fruits, just like we eat apples and pears, not only eat fruit, even cactus slices are also vegetable-like existence, is it also very surprising?
Pear fruit cactus leaves are relatively thick, generally can grow to four or five meters high, if the maintenance of the age is more, can also grow into seven or eight meters high tree, its branching ability is particularly strong, the leaves are very dense, and the amount of flowering is large, the amount of hanging fruit is larger, so planting a pear fruit cactus at home can eat fruit, and the cultivation of trees is also very valuable.
In some mountain village areas in the south, the temperature in winter will not be lower than zero, is the opening and hanging area for the growth of many plants, where the unique growth environment makes their growth so natural, plants grow all year round, do not fall leaves all year round, flowering and fruiting.
For friends in the northern region, it is simply a luxury, planted outdoors in winter, it will definitely freeze to death, can only pot cactus, winter to take it indoors. But potted cacti grow to a height of one or two meters, or even more than two meters high, it is also relatively rare, it can also flower and bear fruit, far less than the ground-planted cactus grows vigorously.
In fact, the cactus is not useless, in Mexico is the main vegetable, often see the market into baskets to peel off the skin of the cactus, just like ordinary vegetables for sale, cactus is still a good Chinese herbal medicine, cactus taste bitter, cool, with heat and detoxification, stasis and swelling, stomach pain relief, cough relief effect, in medicine can be used for intestinal ulcers, acute dysentery, cough and other diseases of the treatment, external use can treat mumps, mastitis, carbuncle swelling venom, insect and snake bites, water and fire burns, Frostbite and other conditions
I remember growing a cheek when I was a child, and now I know that there is a scientific name called mumps, but I didn't know it at that time. Half of the face is swollen very large, crying in pain and fever. Adults don't know where to get home remedies: apply the juice of cactus to the face, change it one day, and it will be fine in three days. They used a needle to pick out the of the cactus little by little and apply them to the face, but this method did work, and it was better to apply it to the disease a few times.
However, if you are a flower lover in the south, you can really try to plant a cactus at home, grow for decades, blossom and bear fruit every year, and eat it, is it very fulfilling, mainly because it grows into a big tree, if someone wants to buy it, it is also very valuable.