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mistral your package arrived today...i am so excited!
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The cuttings are well healed over so I would suggest. . .
Getting some potting soil, mix it with about 1/4 sand, stir well, moisten, fill pots and shove cuttings into soil. The usual start-a-succulent thing; they are easy to start. Just water the soil when dry to about 1/2 inch; make sure the cuttings are in the soil at least an inch or so. The longer the cutting, the deeper you can place it in the soil.
The bean looking plant I was told was "baked bean plant" you can tuck the stem in the soil or break off a couple of beans and put the beans in the soil with the stem spot in the soil.
The plant that looks like green string covered with scales will root if a piece falls on the ground and contacts soil, very easy to grow.
I also sent you a rosette style succulent that roots very easily and when established will love full sun, and will give you (with luck) bright poppy like flowers on long stems. This stuff is planted on the side of a hill down by my brother's house in Encinitas and as it is planted en-masse, it is quite spectacular in bloom; very pretty, bright flowers
As for the red christmas cactus/zygocactus thing--I thought it turned red from water stress (mine doesn't get much water during the summer) but I have been watering it regularly, still looks red. Maybe will stay red? You also have another cactus of the same sort; this one is from my late mother-in-law's plant that I inherited and have managed to make thrive; it blooms pink between Thanksgiving and Christmas, or whenever the nights are long enough. If I can remember to let it go dry for 6 weeks before a date, I can get it to bloom around that date. . . As for growing the christmas cactuses, let them go dry between waterings or they will get a bacterial disease and will wilt and die. If the soil is soggy and the plants are wilting, they are goners in my experience.
Have fun with you cuttings and good luck!
Getting some potting soil, mix it with about 1/4 sand, stir well, moisten, fill pots and shove cuttings into soil. The usual start-a-succulent thing; they are easy to start. Just water the soil when dry to about 1/2 inch; make sure the cuttings are in the soil at least an inch or so. The longer the cutting, the deeper you can place it in the soil.
The bean looking plant I was told was "baked bean plant" you can tuck the stem in the soil or break off a couple of beans and put the beans in the soil with the stem spot in the soil.
The plant that looks like green string covered with scales will root if a piece falls on the ground and contacts soil, very easy to grow.
I also sent you a rosette style succulent that roots very easily and when established will love full sun, and will give you (with luck) bright poppy like flowers on long stems. This stuff is planted on the side of a hill down by my brother's house in Encinitas and as it is planted en-masse, it is quite spectacular in bloom; very pretty, bright flowers
As for the red christmas cactus/zygocactus thing--I thought it turned red from water stress (mine doesn't get much water during the summer) but I have been watering it regularly, still looks red. Maybe will stay red? You also have another cactus of the same sort; this one is from my late mother-in-law's plant that I inherited and have managed to make thrive; it blooms pink between Thanksgiving and Christmas, or whenever the nights are long enough. If I can remember to let it go dry for 6 weeks before a date, I can get it to bloom around that date. . . As for growing the christmas cactuses, let them go dry between waterings or they will get a bacterial disease and will wilt and die. If the soil is soggy and the plants are wilting, they are goners in my experience.
Have fun with you cuttings and good luck!
STOP WATERING IT! Put it somewhere where it will dry out quick, in bright light. . .
Years ago I killed a couple of Christmas cactus by overwatering them. They get a bacterial thing and they croak.
Do NOT Water them until the soil feels totally dry down to the depth of your index finger's first joint, and the tip of your finger should feel dry upon removal from the soil!
If there is still a normal looking piece, cut a two or three piece section at a joint (or even a one piece joint), set the piece aside for a few days to dry and then insert about 1" inch deep into BARELY, REPEAT, BARELY DAMP, brand new potting soil with some sand mixed in. Cactus/palm potting soil is good--did I remember to say BARELY DAMP POTTING SOIL? And ONLY water when it dries out as described above!!!!
I hate to say this, but you may have killed it already. . . :``(
PUT THE WATERING CAN DOWN AND BACK AWAY FROM THE CHRISTMAS CACTUS!
I have found that these things pretty much will thrive with neglect as long as you water sorta regularly and water only when DRY! Good Luck!
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Years ago I killed a couple of Christmas cactus by overwatering them. They get a bacterial thing and they croak.
Do NOT Water them until the soil feels totally dry down to the depth of your index finger's first joint, and the tip of your finger should feel dry upon removal from the soil!
If there is still a normal looking piece, cut a two or three piece section at a joint (or even a one piece joint), set the piece aside for a few days to dry and then insert about 1" inch deep into BARELY, REPEAT, BARELY DAMP, brand new potting soil with some sand mixed in. Cactus/palm potting soil is good--did I remember to say BARELY DAMP POTTING SOIL? And ONLY water when it dries out as described above!!!!
I hate to say this, but you may have killed it already. . . :``(
PUT THE WATERING CAN DOWN AND BACK AWAY FROM THE CHRISTMAS CACTUS!
I have found that these things pretty much will thrive with neglect as long as you water sorta regularly and water only when DRY! Good Luck!
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Wow, you are optimistic. It sounds like a goner to me. I have taken cacti right out of the pot to
dry them out quickly, just letting the air around the soil.
Don't forget to take a cutting anyway Marilyn. It was a pretty plant.
Were you ever allowed to babysit when you were a kid?
dry them out quickly, just letting the air around the soil.
Don't forget to take a cutting anyway Marilyn. It was a pretty plant.
Were you ever allowed to babysit when you were a kid?
Have you ever noticed that people kill the plants that you and I might think simple to grow? . . .
New thread, like the old thread! smileys/smile.gif
Of course I too have killed my share of plants through neglect and un-knowing care (mainly neglect in my case!).
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New thread, like the old thread! smileys/smile.gif
Of course I too have killed my share of plants through neglect and un-knowing care (mainly neglect in my case!).
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First thing to remember: The symptoms of Overwatering and Undewatering are the same! (more)
Yellowing leaves, wilting, etc. In overwatering, the roots rot and so cannot take up enough (or any) water for the plant; in underwatering there is no water for the roots to take up. Same symptoms because the plant cannot get water!
My mom used to kill plants with love (AKA : too much water) regularly. . . smileys/smile.gif
Yellowing leaves, wilting, etc. In overwatering, the roots rot and so cannot take up enough (or any) water for the plant; in underwatering there is no water for the roots to take up. Same symptoms because the plant cannot get water!
My mom used to kill plants with love (AKA : too much water) regularly. . . smileys/smile.gif