I Needle Little Help Repotting Cactus

I develop a handful of cactus plants in my home. Many are innocent, like my fishbone cactus, dragon fruit cactus and Thanksgiving cactus. However a few of them, significantly the varied Echinopsis sorts, have one function that forestalls me from ever desirous to repot them… advantageous, hair-like spines.

I Needle Little Help Right here!

Thank goodness repotting a cactus plant isn’t crucial too typically. If it have been, I’d be tapping out in spherical one. My grandfather had a approach with cacti. He was just like the cactus whisperer, rising a few of the most lovely vegetation I’d ever seen… and a few of these have been fairly enormous. I fondly bear in mind them throughout my visits to Ohio. Simply in entrance of a big picturesque window in his basement, overlooking the yard patio backyard the place I used to spend a lot of my childhood days plucking strawberries, sat quite a few cactus vegetation. There was one specifically that towered over all others and boasted essentially the most lovely blooms. He should’ve needed to repot that yet one more than as soon as, I’m certain. Sadly, this was not a talent handed to me. I could have acquired a “green thumb” by way of trial and error throughout my a few years of gardening, however cacti and succulents (most anyway) nonetheless elude me.

Cacti not often require repotting, however once they do, it’s not a activity I look ahead to doing. Even with gloved fingers and tongs, it by no means fails. I’m at all times getting pricked, and it hurts! And the worst half is that I know what I’m doing, like I know how you can repot a cactus, however for some motive I can not do it with out some kind of challenge. Apparently, I’m simply not excellent at it, or possibly the plant senses my anxiousness, making it harder to perform this activity unscathed. The method usually takes far longer than it ought to. I typically get pissed off. And naturally, after getting caught a number of instances, there’s a number of cursing happening.

Fortunately, cactus vegetation have shallow roots and are capable of develop in confined locations. To keep away from repotting them in any respect, I attempt to place them in bigger pots than is basically wanted every time I can, which like repotting, isn’t any enjoyable both. However they’re sluggish growers anyway, so I don’t fear an excessive amount of about them changing into overly giant. And it’s not as if I’ll ever develop any as tall as my grandfather’s. I’ve already come to phrases with the truth that, apart from strawberries as tasty as his, I’ll by no means develop any cacti like Grandpa, so I’ll simply proceed to keep away from repotting them so long as attainable.