Cactus balls are potted green plants that many flower lovers love to raise, and they can grow well without much care, and some will bloom beautiful flowers. Every year in April and May, is the first wave of cactus balls in full bloom, but also suitable for raising cactus ball season, the following to take you to know some beautiful varieties, novice flower friends are also suitable for raising.
Many people initially contacted the cactus ball, bought are the kind of white flowers, the most common white style, is known as the grass ball, and later with the colorful flowers continue to appear, the name of the grass ball also became the colored grass, meaning the flowering color of the cactus ball.
Colored grass, essentially or grass balls, no flowering shape and grass balls are the same, the plant is in the shape of a round ball when it is young, it will grow into an oval shape after growing, the diameter of the sphere can grow to more than 15cm, the surface has a lot of regular edges, there are degenerate or semi-degenerate spines on it, basically it will not pierce people, and the pot culture is very adaptable, the pot can be raised as long as it is larger than the sphere, and it does not occupy a place in the closed balcony.
In the Colored Grass (Colored Cactus Ball) series, there is a particularly famous Sike's Colored Grass, which is a hybrid of a cactus ball lover, so it is named after him. The beauty of Xi Ke's color grass is particularly high, the flower is large and beautiful, and it is deeply loved or sought after by many gardeners.
Color grass are artificially cultivated, there is no real seedlings, breeding is very important to flowering, most varieties in the sphere grows to about 4 cm when the flowering ability, or small ball state will flower, unlike some other varieties of the ball, such as the golden tiger, raised for ten years and eight years will not flower.
Colored grass ball flowering is also very diligent, every year in April and May, the temperature will rise to flower, the flowering period can last until October (sometimes in the south can see flowers in November), during which it will bloom repeatedly many times, although each flower only looks at one or two days, but the compound flower is very fast, sometimes it can bloom twice a month.
The daily care of color grass is to bask in the sun, and when the soil is completely dry, it will be watered, and the cultivation substrate can be succulent soil, nutrient soil, humus soil and the like, or it can be directly raised with the loess of the green belt, but the growth will be slower. Thin fertilizer can be applied regularly in summer and autumn. Breeding is super fast, mature plants can be divided into 3 to 8 cubs per year, cubs will bloom in the second year, the third and fourth years can produce side buds, through the shear cuttings, a tree can become a lot of trees, like cactus ball flower friends do not miss Oh.