Cactus is a familiar and slightly taboo plant, familiar because it is often seen, taboo is because it is full of thorns, love to prick people, few people to raise cacti. Indoor potted plants, in particular, rarely raise cacti. He carries the danger of stabbing people, and he is not easy to flower, and he can only eat or drink long pieces. There is no use in keeping it. Most of the potted plants are mainly potted flowers, plants and leaves.
Cacti are just some friends who like grafting. Or there are a few in the big yard, in fact, cacti can grow very amazing,
Have you ever seen a cactus that grows to seven or eight meters or even 10 meters, grows into a cactus tree, and blooms and bears fruit every year? This may have been seen in the south, and it is certainly rare to cultivate cactus trees in the north, because the temperature is low in winter and they will freeze to death. Look at the cactus raised by others that are taller than the house, is it very powerful and domineering?
A flower friend's family cactus has been raised for decades, taller than the house, growing to a cactus about 10 meters high, and every year it will bloom a tree of yellow flowers, and it will also be full of cactus, which is as sweet as a small dragon fruit. Nutritious can also be eaten, that is, when eating, pay attention to these thorns on the top, do not prick to the mouth, if you get into the eyes, it is not good.
If the cactus is kept for a long time, the bottom branches will become lignified and become like a tree trunk. The leaves on it are the palm pieces of the cactus, and this thorny tree should be that few people dare to go near him, and when they get close to her, they will directly pierce people. Cacti are planted in some courtyards in the south, and they don't care about it in winter and don't freeze to death, and grow every year. It becomes a tree.
The cactus raised by this flower friend is the tuan fan cactus. It is also a more famous cactus, this palm piece is relatively round, thinner and more thorny, but it has a large amount of flowers and grows rapidly. The shape is also very beautiful, if you potted, you can grow into a small cactus tree in a few years.
The maintenance of cactus is very simple, just need to be placed in a well-lit place to bask in the sun, the potting soil is dry and then water it or rely on the sky to eat. If you raise it in a relatively low shade, the cactus is particularly easy to grow and not grow into a tree but is prone to lodging.
Cacti grow spicy, very resistant to barrenness, and it doesn't matter if you don't fertilize. If you want it to grow faster, you still have to buy it some bean cake fertilizer or compound fertilizer at the bottom of the pot, etc. It will grow faster, but the ground-planted cactus root system can be very deep, just like a big tree, and it doesn't matter if you don't fertilize.
There is also a thousand swords that are particularly suitable for growing into a cactus tree. The bottom is easy to wood, and the leaves on the top will bloom and hang fruit very beautifully.
If you want to breed a cactus, break a leaf directly on it. Inserted in the ground, the cactus is arguably the best plant to raise, and there is also a kind of edible cactus, the long leaves are particularly fat. It can be eaten after the thorns are shaved clean, but it is eaten relatively little in our country, and it is called the kingdom of cacti in Mexico. Cacti are often eaten as vegetables and as fruits.
Cactus because the root system is particularly developed, growing rapidly, so many like crab claw orchids and cactus family of plants often use cactus to graft, after grafting can use the cactus fat leaves to grow crab claw orchid leaves fat and thick, a year can be used for two years. The flowers are like small waterfalls, which is also the greatest use of cacti