So happy you found the video helpful and happy repotting with your Euphorbia trigona, thanks so much Ian for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic new week XXXX
I totally agree. Just tap them out which works fine. I would never put a cactus in a plastic pot as the roots rot off more easily, clay pots all the way.
My husband and I grew three cereus cacti from cuttings in pots and wanted to transplant them in our yard. Your video was the best I found on the internet. Your visuals and explanations were extremely helpful. I didn't need to break the pot I had leftover bubble wrap I used in addition to the newspaper. It worked like a charm. Thank you and I look forward to watching more of your videos. Excellent job and I love your accent!
@inside outside upside downside haha yes so true :-D I am a Silhillian :-D I still haven't lost my Brummie accent even though I have been living in Ireland 14 years haha :-D XXXX
Hi there Jason :-) Thanks for watching + for the questions, yes it is possible to save a clay pot if you can gently loosen the soil around the edges of the pot first, but I always find by doing this you can damage the roots as the roots tend to cling to the clay + I find it safer + easier to break the pot. When re potting to a bigger pot I always find it best to transfer it to just the next size up as cacti can be very prone to rotting if they are kept in too big of a pot than CONTINUED
Just started collecting cacti, amazing luck, I have been given 25 very large and tall cacti so I have bought a greenhouse dedicated to the plants and they all need repotting so your video will be very usefull. Many thanks from Tony in bedfordshire.
Tony Smith Hi Tony :-) Thank you so much for your lovely comment :-) That is fantastic that you have been given 25 cacti, that is wonderful and even better that you have a greenhouse too that you can keep them in, happy growing Tony, thanks so much for watching and sending you much love and happiness from Ireland XXXXXXX
Hi Lyn: Using newspaper is such a perfectly effective and simple idea I only wish I would have seen your video sooner! (been pricked through gloves many times) I really enjoy your videos and can listen to you talk all day. It also absolutely amazes me that in rain soaked Ireland you can maintain such a magnificent cacti collection. You really know your stuff. Thank you and keep up the good work.
***** Thank you so much for such a wonderful comment :-) I agree gloves are hopeless with the spines, they go straight through them and get stuck on them, soooo painful LOL! Yes growing these Desert plants are a real challenge here in Ireland with all the rain and damp air LOL! I often dream of living in a warm and dry sunny climate where I can grow them all outdoors in the garden instead of behind glass and in the house, but then I think part of the challenge and enjoyment of growing these plants is keeping them healthy and happy despite the conditions :-) Thanks so much for watching and have a MAGNIFICENT day ahead today :-) XXXX
This was very helpful,and interesting video. I am glad I took the time to watch. I learned how to transplant my cactus with out getting injured,or damaging the plant. Thank you for sharing.
I inherited a super old (more than 20yrs I guess) cactus and Jade mix in a rectangular plastic pot. Though lovely and healthy, the cactus spines is a pain when being touched most esp kids. You gave me an idea how to separate and repot my plants. I will try when I have time this spring, fingers crossed I will do good!
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald isle for a sunny Saturday XXXXX
Super great video. The best I've seen on repoting cacti. I've been using old towels, instead of news paper. I use the towel as a hammock to support a tall cacti. The tape around the pot, is VERY smart. Thanks again for Your great videos. SAL.
Sal Petrillo Thank you so much Sal :-) That is so wonderful to hear that you are enjoying the videos, That sounds like a brilliant idea about using the towels as a hammock to support tall cacti, Thanks so much for watching and sending you much love and happiness from Ireland XXXXXX
Hi there . My wife is really into cactus plants and loves to garden and really anything to do with plants ,flowers, vegetables or anything that grows. Great video on repotting a cactus.
+Dennis F Thanks so much Dennis for your wonderful comment :-) so happy that you enjoyed the video :-) sending you and your wife loads of love and happiness and happy growing from Ireland and have a wonderful Wednesday today XXXXX
I just moved an I got a new San Pedro cactus an I was going to transplant it but I knocked it over an it hit the ground from 5 ft. in the air.It was so healthy it didn't even phase it.Its such a cool cacti.I hope it handle the stress.It looked okay.Thanks for all your info on 🌵🌵🌵🐦
Good luck with your San Pedro Greg, they really are tough plants :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
I see you leaving heartfelt comments on other people's channels and on video, You just seem like one of the nicest people on earth. Your husband/bf, he's a lucky man.
I'm re-potting my barrel cactus tomorrow. I go to a place called California Cactus Center here in So Cal. They have the best cactus soil I have ever used. Love your vids. Keep up the great work ❤
So happy you love my vids and thats fantastic you will be repotting your Barrel Cactus today :-D happy repotting and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to California for a terrific Thursday XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon I have some plants that are possibly right up your alley...I can only correctly ID 1 since it is a local cactus. May I send you the pix? It helps me get some "brownie points" with our local junior college.
You could also tip the pot and use the spoon end or the wire your made to push plant out and save the pot. Great tip on using card board and newspaper to save your hands and the plant 8) thanks
Thanks so much for sharing your tips too :-D thanks a million for your wonderful comments and for watching and sending tons of love and heaps of happiness and happy growing from Ireland and have a fantastic Sunday XXXX
Thanks so much for subscribing and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Nice job!!! My two catus plants have been in their pots easliy 4 years so I'm thinking it is time for a new home. Your example is what I was thinking of doing, but never thought about scrunching newspaper to help the plant and placing cardboard between the stems. Thank you for this video. I believe I can do this, without harming my hand , arms or the cacti! Thanks
Good luck with your repotting Donna :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-D sending an abundance of love and PLANT POWER your way for a terrific Tuesday XXXXX
Im getting such good vibes from this vid! I envy your lovely personality and obvious joy of life :D I have a cactus that is about 9 years old and was only ever repottet once and into sand. I want to give it a better pot and the right soil now so thanks a lot for this vid
+Y0GURTkun Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) I'm really pleased that this video helped you :-) Sending you tons of love and heaps of happiness from Ireland for a wonderful evening ahead XXXX
So happy you loved the repotting video Emmanouela :-D thanks so much for watching and for your fantastic comments and sending you an abundance of love and happiness your way for a fantastic day XXXXXX
+Trac McNguyen Thanks a million Trac for your wonderful comment and so happy that you found this repotting vid helpful, repotting a cactus is something everyone dreads having to do haha! and thats such brilliant news that you have a Echinocactus grusonnii :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you tons of love and happy growing from Ireland for a MAGICAL Sunday XXXXXX
StrongmanMS Thanks so much Martin for watching and for your comments :-) Sending you much love and happiness from Ireland and wishing you many Seasons Blessings XXXXXX
So happy you found this video helpful Katherine :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle for a wonderful weekend XXXX
David clowsley Thank you so much Dave for your lovely comment and for watching :-) really happy you enjoyed the video :-) Sending you much love and happy growing from Ireland XXX
So happy you enjoyed the video Richard, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) thats brilliant that you are learning lots from the vids :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happy growing from Ireland for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
Well, it’s official. I now understand why plastic is preferred. I was repotting this morning from 3 inch terra cotta to 4 inch pots and was greeted by a mass of roots clinging to the walls of the pots! I thought of you and quickly decided that plastic was the way to go. Next repotting should be much easier...but I’m not looking forward to having to repot the rest of my collection. Yup, you guessed it. All are currently in terra cotta pots. Bleh!
Hi Kevin, Clay pots can be such a pain due to the roots clinging to the sides, and I used to love clay pots as they look so nice and they dry out faster but decided that plastic is better due to the roots sticking to the clay, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and PLANT POWER happiness and have a wonderful Friday XXXX
I am absolutly in love with that round cactus you got there! What on earth is it? I have 10 cacti/ succulensucculents myself and currently I'm trying to save my Eve's Pin from a bought of overwatering. I thought watering my plants once a week every Sunday was okay and Sangria ( Eve's Pin ) started getting wrinkly. I thought it may have been from being underwatered, but I still watered her once a week. Turns out an Eve's Pin needs water once every 10 - 14 days! I let her and Mister Harry, ( He is a cat us with four nubs that was getting swollen and his soil has not drying out thanks to the soil and being in a glazed pot ) I let them both dry their soil out. Mister Harry is no longer swollen but Sangria my Eve's Pin is a little mushy and wrinkled. Not discolored wich is a good sign. Right now I have her in a dark place for a day or two hoping she'll become solid again and We'll work out those wrinkles soon. :/ But yes, what is that delightfully round Cacti called? XD
LOL! :-D thanks so much Elizabeth for your fantastic comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle and have a wonderful Monday XXXXX
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending both you and Odin an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Sunday XXXX
Thanks so much Jessica for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic day XXXX
Hi Lynn, Just found your website what a lovley cheerful girl you are. I will watch you more now. About 40 yrs ago he was about 10 at the time. our son got into cacti growing, he joined the local society, they all grew them in square pots, they could be placed together thus taking up less room, also looked neater,. I still have a lot of them and I am trying my streptocarpus in them. I buy lithops now and again.
+Shirley Carwardine Thank you so much Shirley for your really wonderful comment :-) that so lovely to hear about your son joining the local Cactus society all those years ago, funny enough I am am member of the one in Dublin here in Ireland and a lot of the members also like to grow them in the square pots, the square pots look so nice and neat but they are so hard to find now, and most of the people I know have to order them online, I love Lithops too, they are wonderful plants and so unusual :-) Thanks so much for watching, and sending you an abundance of love from Ireland XXXXX
thanks so much for your lovely comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a wonderful day XXXXX
Hi Lyn I have to repot one of my catcus. Thanks so much for the ideas. I will try. Thanks from Tasmania Australia. I found your RUclips from watching your partners RUclips.
Thats fantastic that you found my channel from my partners you tube :-D Good luck with repotting your cactus Abbey and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Tasmania, Australia for a fantastic evening XXXX
So happy you love the channel and thanks a million for watching :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland for a TERRIFIC Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks for sharing your technique. I have used cardboard, but I really like the newspaper idea. :-) We are enjoying cactus flowers in California right now... Hope you are too. :-)
Harimblade Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for subscribing, i have subbed your FANTASTIC channel too, you have some beautiful cacti :-) We are enjoying some lovely flowers on the cacti at the moment, You are so blessed living in California with all that sunshine, it must be wonderful to be able to have your amazing plants outside in the fresh air :-) Sending you much love and happiness from Ireland for a FANTASTIC weekend :-) XXXXX
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you tons of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle for a brilliant weekend ahead XXXX
Hi Lynn, cute Muppet shirt 🤗! . I just discovered your channel about a month ago. Looking into your archives this weekend. You have gobs of great info!! 🌵❤️ from New Mexico, USA. Steve
Hi Steve :-D so happy you love my channel and Muppet shirt too haha :-D so happy you love the info on my channel and I have lots of more how to and care videos planned for this year too :-D thanks so much for your support its really appreciated
I've been binging a bit watching your channel. Love your personality and energy. I have some large potted specimens I've had for 25 years. I'll have to make a little video and post it. Have fun... Peace.
So happy you love my channel and personality and WOW I bet your large plants you have had for 25 years are INCREDIBLE :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Friday XXXX
Awwww thank you so very much Sim :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comments and for watching, Sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Hi Lyn, an oldie but goodie here ( hahaha I've gone all 'smashie and nicey, blush😳) I'm searching your channel for advice on potting on cacti. Something some of my little ones are needing but I'm a wee bit nervous. Sending big smiles and thanks for all the great info. 🌺Tish
haha Tish so happy you like this re potting vid, its some years ago now but still the same method :-D thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Edinburgh for a FANTASTIC Friday XXXXX
I use the ruler on ceramic pots worked so far and no broken pots, I guess it might damage the roots a little bit, but not noticed anything happening because of it.
Thats a brilliant idea with using a ruler to loosen up the sides of the clay pot, thanks so much Billy for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic day XXXX
c3r3br0b0t Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment :-) So happy you loved the video and the shirt haha! I love the Muppet Show :-) Sending you much love from Ireland XXXXX :-)
Hi there :-) Thanks so much for your WONDERFUL comment :-) Yes most liquid houseplant feeds are perfectly safe to give to cacti, I would use it at half strength though, I usually use chempak cactus feed or baby-bio or a liquid tomato feed and use it at half strength than they recommend for normal plants :-) Sending you much love and happiness from Ireland :-) XXXX
Finally a very good instruction video and so much good energy that just made my day even better :-) thank you very much. I do have a couple of questions: how do I know if my cactus needs reporting and what do I do when the roots are not in a great shape? Btw. I live in Florida and my "babies" just love it! Lol
Fantastic Vid Lyn,full of top tips. . . .You may have covered this in another Video but plastic or clay pots. . .You use both so doesn't it matter which pot to use? . . .I use clay pots for my Sweet Peppers ect because you have to make sure the roots don't burn
So happy you loved the repotting video Paul :-D yes I love to use both clay and plastic, I find the clay pots are great for the top heavy plants as it gives them a bit of added weight, I love to use clay pots for the cacti that have tuberous roots too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Hi Michael :-D if the cacti are still very small, I always leave them in the same pot until they are much bigger, if the cacti are a lot smaller than the size of the pot, I make sure that I am extra careful with the watering, and only water around the base of the cactus and not the whole of the soil in the pot, you can transplant them into a smaller pot but when cacti are very young it may be best to leave them in the same pot even if the pot is bigger than ideal for them, and be extra careful with the watering, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX
Very helpful video, thank you! I'm planning to re-pot my 7 year old, oft-neglected San Pedro cactus and had no idea what the root system was even like (I assume it's similar to those shown in this video)!
Mark Van Slyke Thank you so much Mark for your lovely comment :-) Yes the root system of your Pedro will be very similar to these two in the vid and when you re pot San Pedros they grow really fast after as I have found out with a few of mine :-) Thanks for watching and have a fantastic week ahead :-) XXXX
So happy you love my accent Gail :-D the tall one is a Pilosocereus azureus variety, its a wonderful cactus to grow, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a sunny Sunday XXXX
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and watching and sending you an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald isle and have a wonderful Wednesday XXXXXX
I used clay pots to repot a barrel cactus for years until it got to big for me to take indoors in the Canadian winter. Whenever I repotted I would always put a largish piece of broke a clay pot over the drain hole. That way when I went to remove it for repotting I could push a stick or whatever up the drain hole and tap the plant out. I also did it when it was bone dry so it had shrunk a bit in the pot. Worked well!
Thanks so much for sharing your tips on re potting Bill and thank you for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle XXXXX
Lynn, I really enjoyed your video. It gave me many tips that I hadn't thought of and the photography and presentation was first class. Daniel, Ballyduff, Waterford
+Daniel Cahill Thank you so much Daniel for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) and so happy to see you are also here in Waterford :-) Sending you much love and happiness for a FANTASTIC day ahead XXXXX
thanks for the videos. I have 2 questions...with the terracotta pot - do you have to break it? couldnt you just pull it off like the plastic one? Shame to waste a terracotta pot. And also your next size pots are not much bigger than the old one, I think you said leave a 1 inch gap.....Could you go a bit bigger with the next size up? Is there any harm re-potting to a much bigger pot? thanks!
Thank you so much Thorsten, we definitely need the sun here, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Germany for a wonderful weekend XXXX
Chas Cox Thank you so much Chas for your lovely comment :-) Yes I am from Birmingham, i have been living in Ireland 8 years now, no sign of an Irish accent yet though haha! Thanks so much for watching and have a FANTASTIC day ahead XXXX
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland for a fantastic Friday today XXXX
Mark A Thank you so much Mark for watching and so pleased to hear that the video helped :-) Sending much love and happy growing for a fantastic weekend XXXX
whats this Lyn. cruelty to cactus, beating them with a hammer, seriously ,another good tip thanks again lots of Love and best wishes from north east Scotland
hahahaha Mike :-D so happy you enjoyed the repotting video :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Belfast to North East Scotland for a terrific Tuesday afternoon XXXXX
A faster method of filling the sides is to use a flexible sheet of hard plastic, add some your soil, bend, lift and slide the soil off along the sides. Do this all around the edges and tamp. Repeat until desired depth of soil is achieved.
Hi , I am new to all this but have just bought a few cactus from Ikea but notice they are planted in a peat based compost......would it be a good idea to re pot them into a cactus soil mix that you have done a video on ,and should I water them in as well.......great RUclips channel by the way......Mark..👍
Hi Mark :-D welcome to the wonderful world of growing these amazing plants, thats wonderful you have bought a few cacti from IKEA, they are great for plants and always good quality and great prices too, Yes its best to change the soil in the pots as peat is not the best for cacti, its ok short term but over time it can compact the roots and peat dries like cardboard and its always difficult to re wet peat, yes now Spring is as good as here I would repot them into cactus soil and then leave them totally dry for the first 10 days before starting to water them again, good luck with your wonderful new cacti and thanks so much for watching, sending you lots of love and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXXX
Thanks very much, Lyn. I have a very tall (70cm) Euphorbia which needs repotting. I'm thinking of using this as an opportunity to provide some sort of support. Please can you advise on the best form and size of support? I'm also worried about putting the stake through the root ball. Please comment.
Hi there, thats wonderful you have a large Euphorbia, its good to support them and I like to use bamboo canes to support any top heavy or over hanging plants, I use garden tie wire wrapped around the plant to support the plant onto the canes, you would be best to insert the cane/s into the new pot first, and then quarter fill the pot with the cane/s inside with the new succulent soil, then you can place your Euphorbia into the pot and soil and then tie the Euphorbia onto the cane/s with the garden tie wire, then fill up the rest of the pot and rootball, this will prevent you having to insert the cane through the rootball, you can use 3-4 bamboo canes made as a bit of a trellis support, Good luck with repotting your Euphorbia, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon Well I put the success of two Euphorbia, which have gone crazy, down to your grit, sand, Number 2 mix. Thanks for the advice .... that will be my project this week, if I can work up the 'courage'!
+Tomasz Zaleski Thanks so much for your wonderful comments :-) So happy that you are loving the vids :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you tons of love and heaps of happiness from Ireland to Venice Beach and have a BRILLIANT Tuesday ahead today XXXXX
Hi Debra :-D yes I have an Eve's needle cactus, although mine has never flowered yet, they can be difficult to get to flower, but they love plenty of sunshine and monthly fertilising in Spring and Summer, I like to use a weak strength fertilizer for tomatoes for my cacti as the extra potassium gives them a boost for flowering but these Eve's Needle cacti will usually flower when they get to be over 2-3 feet high, and it will be wonderful to see flowers on ours in the near future :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Northern California for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Hi, nice video. I do have a cactus in a pot but I want to transfer it to the soil. Can I do it? My cactus looks like the second cactus you repot in the video.
Hi Arthur :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) Unfortunately because i have only ever grown cacti in pots indoors and in the greenhouse because of living in Ireland, I really wouldn't know what to suggest for transplanting them outdoors in the garden as it can depend on many different things like the climate and where you live and the soil etc, so sorry I can't be any help with you on that one, but if you are blessed to be living in a warmer climate and drier climate you can certainly grow them outdoors in the garden if they are planted up in a well drained sandy soil :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from Ireland for a wonderful Wednesday ahead XXXX
So happy you love the blue colour of this beautiful cactus Sai Sandeep Ponna :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comments and for watching and sending tons of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic afternoon XXXX
Hi Tim :-) as mentioned at the end of my video do not water after transplanting for at least 2 weeks :-) sending much love and happy growing from Ireland XXXX
So happy you enjoyed the video :-D yes the tall cactus is a Pilocereus azureus, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful plant powered day XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon awesome thank you so much. I've had one of those for a good 7-8 years and it's gotten huge. All the apps ive used to identify it have called out a different species. Re-potting it is going to be a tricky job. It came with 3 cactus in one, do you recommend I split them up or can they live together? Any tips you have would be appreciated, it's about six feet tall.
@@dm9363 WOW thats amazing at 6 feet tall, I would leave them together, I think because they are tall and very mature it can be very difficult to split them up as their roots will have grown together, I have two in the same pot that are about 6 feet tall too and they are doing really well, XXXXX
Thanks so much Rick for your WONDERFUL comment :-) re-potting is definitely the one part of this hobby I am not so keen on haha! especially re-potting the very tall spiny ones, and when you have as many as me it can sometimes take me a whole week to re pot just one shelf of my plants haha! Sending you tons of love and happiness from across the pond Rick :-) XXXX
Hello, how are you? I bumped into your videos a while ago, and i must say i find your energy very contagious! :) As for your cacti videos they are very interesting, but i must say and please don't take this in a negative way, but i find your cacti mix too organic! Personally i believe you should keep them in a much more mineral mix, as the more organic (cacti mix) normally sold is problematic even if you had a bit of perlite! The main issue is the peat present in the mix. You see after a while of being dry, it is painfully hard to get it wet again and that means it can get so hard and dry that unless you submerge the pot in water for quite a bit, areas in the pot will never get moist, the water will go just straight down to the bottom of the pot, the compost will pretty much not retain much of it for the cactus to suck up, and although people keep telling us to water it until you see water come out of the bottom, if the peat it just to dry, that tip is useless!! If that doesn't happen then there's the risk that the peat present one day can keep you compost to wet for too long, and your cacti will rot, all it takes is watering it at the wrong time...I am sure we all been there... Also when re potting you should try and remove as much of the old compost as possible, so that in a few years you do not end up with cactus roots enclosed in rock hard dry peat! Not good for the pant at all! It could be something that could require some time to get used to, but i believe a more mineral mix is a better compost, and in time it will be even easier to control the watering/moisture in your Melocactus for instance! Also certain species don't like the acidity that peat brings, like certain kinds of Gymnocalycium. Hope you don't take this post as a negative one i am just trying to share some bits of research and experience with a fellow grower. Best regards!
Malvo0ovlaM Thank you so much for your lovely comment and for watching the vids :-) Thanks for all your great advice, I really appreciate it and I would never take it as negative at all :-) as i am always appreciative of any advice other growers are willing to share :-) I have noticed that a lot of the peat based composts are a pain to re wet again and they tend to dry up like cement when it comes to watering them again, I have found a few of the John innes no 2 composts a lot better as they are more soil based rather than peat based like a lot of the other ones, and John innes soil based composts are the ones I use but I have noticed a lot of john Innes composts still use a lot of peat in their compost mixes, so i really appreciate your advice of a more mineral mix and will do a bit more experimenting and I will definitely be looking out for a soil based compost that doesn't use any peat in it :-) Thank you so much for your advice and sending you tons of love and Happy Growing from Ireland and have a wonderful week ahead XXXX :-)
heartfullofhappiness Indeed John Innes still uses peat, something i only found out recently (i don't have access to it). You could still use nº2 but to a less degree, like 20/30%, as going 100% mineral is indeed complicated, i know, because my transition wasn't very smooth and i ended up doing allot of mistakes. So basically 20/30% John, and the rest could be composed of mineral material like pumice, which works very well. From my understanding around your area (Ireland, England etc) people use it so i recon you should have little trouble finding it, although it could be expensive. Other things could be use just like random gravel/grit material, decomposed granite,crushed lava rock, or kitty litter! Yes kitty litter is also often used to great results! You could also use a bit of sand, but not too much because with time it could create a crust after being constantly wet, and then drying up, just a wee bit. I would avoid using perlite because it has a nasty habit of floating to the surface. Also be aware that the big columnar ones like a bit more organics on their mix so i would use more than 20/30% on them. Try it out with a few plants for a year and see how it works out. You might need to fertilize them and water them a bit more than before but the risk of rot should be considerably less. Cacti are amazing plants, it's a shame normally people just think of them as "green things with spines". They are amazing...for instance do you know that a considerable amount of cacti possess a certain bacteria that dissolve rock and provide nutrition them? Quite amazing isn't it! Best regards
Malvo0ovlaM WOW! Thank you sooooo much for all your gread advice, that is so brilliant to know, you have been a real help and I will definitely check out using this on all my future repottings, i think using the 30% John innes no 2 and the rest of grit and pumice, the pumice i have seen here in the garden centres, I have also noticed that perlite seems to float to the surface when I water them and gathers all at the top, so its definitely not the best, i have heard that cat litter is brilliant too, WOW! I never knew that a lot of cacti possess a certain bacteria that dissolves rocks and provides nutrition, thats incredible :-) Thanks so much for all the advice and info :-) Sending you an abundance of love and Happy growing from Ireland and have a wonderful day ahead XXXXX
Thanks so much Rachel for your WONDERFUL comment :-) haha! yes re-potting is not my favourite part of the hobby, I often end up with a thorn or two in some strange places haha! Thanks for watching, Sending you much love and happiness from Ireland :-) XXXX
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and heaps of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Friday ahead XXXXXX
what they need as the soil can stay damp for much longer, I have never lost a plant to being under potted but in the past I have lost some from being over potted :-) Hope this helps, Sending you much love andfhappiness from Ireland :-) XXXX
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I've been puzzling over how to pot up my tall Euphorbia trigona for a couple of weeks. Super informative how to - thanks!
So happy you found the video helpful and happy repotting with your Euphorbia trigona, thanks so much Ian for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic new week XXXX
Omg I would never break my pots, it hurts just watching it XD
I totally agree. Just tap them out which works fine. I would never put a cactus in a plastic pot as the roots rot off more easily, clay pots all the way.
Nigel Cole it dose not work for me I wish it did
@@nigelcole1936 you can use the broken pot to put into a new pot. 👍
That is crazy breaking
The pot ,all she had to do was just move it around and it would easily come out ,pots are not cheap .
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My husband and I grew three cereus cacti from cuttings in pots and wanted to transplant them in our yard. Your video was the best I found on the internet. Your visuals and explanations were extremely helpful. I didn't need to break the pot I had leftover bubble wrap I used in addition to the newspaper. It worked like a charm. Thank you and I look forward to watching more of your videos. Excellent job and I love your accent!
Thank you so very much Kathy
@inside outside upside downside haha yes so true :-D I am a Silhillian :-D I still haven't lost my Brummie accent even though I have been living in Ireland 14 years haha :-D XXXX
Hi there Jason :-) Thanks for watching + for the questions, yes it is possible to save a clay pot if you can gently loosen the soil around the edges of the pot first, but I always find by doing this you can damage the roots as the roots tend to cling to the clay + I find it safer + easier to break the pot. When re potting to a bigger pot I always find it best to transfer it to just the next size up as cacti can be very prone to rotting if they are kept in too big of a pot than CONTINUED
have you ever tried tapping the clay pot all around its circumference with a rubber mallet? It works fine AND you save the pot !!
That's how I do it also. If it still seems stuck I stick my finger or a stick into the drain hole & push it out. I'm not wasting my pots..
Just started collecting cacti, amazing luck, I have been given 25 very large and tall cacti so I have bought a greenhouse dedicated to the plants and they all need repotting so your video will be very usefull. Many thanks from Tony in bedfordshire.
Tony Smith Hi Tony :-) Thank you so much for your lovely comment :-) That is fantastic that you have been given 25 cacti, that is wonderful and even better that you have a greenhouse too that you can keep them in, happy growing Tony, thanks so much for watching and sending you much love and happiness from Ireland XXXXXXX
Hi Lyn: Using newspaper is such a perfectly effective and simple idea I only wish I would have seen your video sooner! (been pricked through gloves many times) I really enjoy your videos and can listen to you talk all day. It also absolutely amazes me that in rain soaked Ireland you can maintain such a magnificent cacti collection. You really know your stuff. Thank you and keep up the good work.
***** Thank you so much for such a wonderful comment :-) I agree gloves are hopeless with the spines, they go straight through them and get stuck on them, soooo painful LOL! Yes growing these Desert plants are a real challenge here in Ireland with all the rain and damp air LOL! I often dream of living in a warm and dry sunny climate where I can grow them all outdoors in the garden instead of behind glass and in the house, but then I think part of the challenge and enjoyment of growing these plants is keeping them healthy and happy despite the conditions :-) Thanks so much for watching and have a MAGNIFICENT day ahead today :-) XXXX
This was very helpful,and interesting video.
I am glad I took the time to watch.
I learned how to transplant my cactus with out getting injured,or damaging the plant.
Thank you for sharing.
So happy you found the video helpful Debra
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Thank you🤗
From Phoenix Arizona USA.
Hi Lyn
Super demo on repotting tall and cacti with pickers
Thanks so much JoAnn for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX
I inherited a super old (more than 20yrs I guess) cactus and Jade mix in a rectangular plastic pot. Though lovely and healthy, the cactus spines is a pain when being touched most esp kids. You gave me an idea how to separate and repot my plants. I will try when I have time this spring, fingers crossed I will do good!
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald isle for a sunny Saturday XXXXX
Super great video. The best I've seen on repoting cacti. I've been using old towels, instead of news paper. I use the towel as a hammock to support a tall cacti. The tape around the pot, is VERY smart. Thanks again for Your great videos. SAL.
Sal Petrillo Thank you so much Sal :-) That is so wonderful to hear that you are enjoying the videos, That sounds like a brilliant idea about using the towels as a hammock to support tall cacti, Thanks so much for watching and sending you much love and happiness from Ireland XXXXXX
Hi there . My wife is really into cactus plants and loves to garden and really anything to do with plants ,flowers, vegetables or anything that grows. Great video on repotting a cactus.
+Dennis F Thanks so much Dennis for your wonderful comment :-) so happy that you enjoyed the video :-) sending you and your wife loads of love and happiness and happy growing from Ireland and have a wonderful Wednesday today XXXXX
I just moved an I got a new San Pedro cactus an I was going to transplant it but I knocked it over an it hit the ground from 5 ft. in the air.It was so healthy it didn't even phase it.Its such a cool cacti.I hope it handle the stress.It looked okay.Thanks for all your info on 🌵🌵🌵🐦
Good luck with your San Pedro Greg, they really are tough plants :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
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Desert Plants of Avalon Harika. Ğüzel. XX
I see you leaving heartfelt comments on other people's channels and on video, You just seem like one of the nicest people on earth. Your husband/bf, he's a lucky man.
Awwwww that is so lovely of you to say that
@@desertplantsofavalon oh thank you, you're very very kind. Would love you meet you one day😊. Cheers
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I'm re-potting my barrel cactus tomorrow. I go to a place called California Cactus Center here in So Cal. They have the best cactus soil I have ever used. Love your vids. Keep up the great work ❤
So happy you love my vids and thats fantastic you will be repotting your Barrel Cactus today :-D happy repotting and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to California for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Great info! Fun attitude and not too "professor-like" boring! I just want to "save" some mistreated plants. Thank you!
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@@desertplantsofavalon I have some plants that are possibly right up your alley...I can only correctly ID 1 since it is a local cactus. May I send you the pix? It helps me get some "brownie points" with our local junior college.
You could also tip the pot and use the spoon end or the wire your made to push plant out and save the pot. Great tip on using card board and newspaper to save your hands and the plant 8) thanks
Thanks so much for sharing your tips too :-D thanks a million for your wonderful comments and for watching and sending tons of love and heaps of happiness and happy growing from Ireland and have a fantastic Sunday XXXX
Needed this video as planning to repot my plants. Thanks. Subscribed
Thanks so much for subscribing and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Wow this is great, love the tips and you’re adorable ha ha! Thanks for the joy and especially the muppets
So happy you enjoyed the video and my Muppet Tee Shirt haha
Nice job!!! My two catus plants have been in their pots easliy 4 years so I'm thinking it is time for a new home. Your example is what I was thinking of doing, but never thought about scrunching newspaper to help the plant and placing cardboard between the stems. Thank you for this video. I believe I can do this, without harming my hand , arms or the cacti! Thanks
Good luck with your repotting Donna :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-D sending an abundance of love and PLANT POWER your way for a terrific Tuesday XXXXX
Im getting such good vibes from this vid! I envy your lovely personality and obvious joy of life :D I have a cactus that is about 9 years old and was only ever repottet once and into sand. I want to give it a better pot and the right soil now so thanks a lot for this vid
+Y0GURTkun Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) I'm really pleased that this video helped you :-) Sending you tons of love and heaps of happiness from Ireland for a wonderful evening ahead XXXX
I couldn't break my pot. I'm gluing mine back together that accidentally break! Lolol. To each their own though. ❤️🥰
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Great job beautiful Lyn, priority is not to hurt the cactus fantastic!!!! 💟
So happy you loved the repotting video Emmanouela :-D thanks so much for watching and for your fantastic comments and sending you an abundance of love and happiness your way for a fantastic day XXXXXX
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This was super helpful. I just came into possession of a echinocactus grusonii. Thanks for sharing.
+Trac McNguyen Thanks a million Trac for your wonderful comment and so happy that you found this repotting vid helpful, repotting a cactus is something everyone dreads having to do haha! and thats such brilliant news that you have a Echinocactus grusonnii :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you tons of love and happy growing from Ireland for a MAGICAL Sunday XXXXXX
You doing very good. I like your video and learn from you so I am recently growing cactus 🌵 and I love it.
Thats wonderful you are growing cactus, they are incredible plants to grow, thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic new week ahead XXXX
hi,been watching more of your videos,i love the way you present the films with so much passion and joy,best wishes to you and your partner
hi lyn,thanks for the reply
The cardboard used on the tall cactus is a very helpfull tip :D i wil remember that when repotting my cacti.
Thanks from Martin in Denmark
StrongmanMS Thanks so much Martin for watching and for your comments :-) Sending you much love and happiness from Ireland and wishing you many Seasons Blessings XXXXXX
Another life saver video for me haha I’m really afraid to repot cacti. Thank you
So happy you found this video helpful Katherine :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle for a wonderful weekend XXXX
great simple advice on how to do the job well! thanks! and a great bubbly happy presentation. really fun. best wishes. Dave.
David clowsley Thank you so much Dave for your lovely comment and for watching :-) really happy you enjoyed the video :-) Sending you much love and happy growing from Ireland XXX
You are a very charming, warm, beautiful soul. Thank you for your time.
Awwww thank you so much for your wonderful words and thank you for watching, and wishing you a fantastic plant powered Saturday today XXXX
Thank you for this wonderful video.
So happy you enjoyed the video Richard, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Totally great tips. I learned something, and got great ideas.
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) thats brilliant that you are learning lots from the vids :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happy growing from Ireland for a fantastic new week ahead XXXXX
Thank you and happy growing to you too,
but from florida!
Well, it’s official. I now understand why plastic is preferred. I was repotting this morning from 3 inch terra cotta to 4 inch pots and was greeted by a mass of roots clinging to the walls of the pots! I thought of you and quickly decided that plastic was the way to go. Next repotting should be much easier...but I’m not looking forward to having to repot the rest of my collection. Yup, you guessed it. All are currently in terra cotta pots. Bleh!
Hi Kevin, Clay pots can be such a pain due to the roots clinging to the sides, and I used to love clay pots as they look so nice and they dry out faster but decided that plastic is better due to the roots sticking to the clay, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and PLANT POWER happiness and have a wonderful Friday XXXX
I am absolutly in love with that round cactus you got there! What on earth is it?
I have 10 cacti/ succulensucculents myself and currently I'm trying to save my Eve's Pin from a bought of overwatering. I thought watering my plants once a week every Sunday was okay and Sangria ( Eve's Pin ) started getting wrinkly. I thought it may have been from being underwatered, but I still watered her once a week. Turns out an Eve's Pin needs water once every 10 - 14 days! I let her and Mister Harry, ( He is a cat us with four nubs that was getting swollen and his soil has not drying out thanks to the soil and being in a glazed pot ) I let them both dry their soil out. Mister Harry is no longer swollen but Sangria my Eve's Pin is a little mushy and wrinkled. Not discolored wich is a good sign. Right now I have her in a dark place for a day or two hoping she'll become solid again and We'll work out those wrinkles soon. :/
But yes, what is that delightfully round Cacti called? XD
Its a Ferocatus setispinus cactus haha :-D and I have had this plant for many years now :-D about 20 years
You need your own tv show !!
LOL! :-D thanks so much Elizabeth for your fantastic comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle and have a wonderful Monday XXXXX
Great info. Great video.
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending both you and Odin an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Sunday XXXX
awesome tips! Thank you!!!! keep smiling
Thanks so much Jessica for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic day XXXX
Thank you ! Wonderful video!
Thank you so much Richard, so happy you enjoyed the video and thanks so much for watching XXXX
Hi Lynn, Just found your website what a lovley cheerful girl you are. I will watch you more now. About 40 yrs ago he was about 10 at the time. our son got into cacti growing, he joined the local society, they all grew them in square pots, they could be placed together thus taking up less room, also looked neater,. I still have a lot of them and I am trying my streptocarpus in them. I buy lithops now and again.
+Shirley Carwardine Thank you so much Shirley for your really wonderful comment :-) that so lovely to hear about your son joining the local Cactus society all those years ago, funny enough I am am member of the one in Dublin here in Ireland and a lot of the members also like to grow them in the square pots, the square pots look so nice and neat but they are so hard to find now, and most of the people I know have to order them online, I love Lithops too, they are wonderful plants and so unusual :-) Thanks so much for watching, and sending you an abundance of love from Ireland XXXXX
Hello, Thank you for taking the time to post this video.
Waiting not so patiently for spring in sunny Canada.
-Roger
Thanks for showing this Lyn. Looks like quite an undertaking, but worth it :o)
So beautiful cactus
thanks so much for your lovely comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a wonderful day XXXXX
Thanks for the reply and happy growing from here in west Texas! Great cactus country !!
Hi Lyn I have to repot one of my catcus. Thanks so much for the ideas. I will try. Thanks from Tasmania Australia. I found your
RUclips from watching your partners RUclips.
Thats fantastic that you found my channel from my partners you tube :-D Good luck with repotting your cactus Abbey and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Tasmania, Australia for a fantastic evening XXXX
This was very helpful. Thank you.
I love your channel
So happy you love the channel and thanks a million for watching :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland for a TERRIFIC Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks for sharing your technique. I have used cardboard, but I really like the newspaper idea. :-) We are enjoying cactus flowers in California right now... Hope you are too. :-)
Harimblade Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for subscribing, i have subbed your FANTASTIC channel too, you have some beautiful cacti :-) We are enjoying some lovely flowers on the cacti at the moment, You are so blessed living in California with all that sunshine, it must be wonderful to be able to have your amazing plants outside in the fresh air :-) Sending you much love and happiness from Ireland for a FANTASTIC weekend :-) XXXXX
you gave very useful tips - well worth a listen, thanks
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you tons of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle for a brilliant weekend ahead XXXX
Thanks for your video, I know how to repot cactus now, love your videos :)
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching
Hi Lynn, cute Muppet shirt 🤗! . I just discovered your channel about a month ago. Looking into your archives this weekend. You have gobs of great info!! 🌵❤️ from New Mexico, USA. Steve
Hi Steve :-D so happy you love my channel and Muppet shirt too haha :-D so happy you love the info on my channel and I have lots of more how to and care videos planned for this year too :-D thanks so much for your support its really appreciated
I've been binging a bit watching your channel. Love your personality and energy. I have some large potted specimens I've had for 25 years. I'll have to make a little video and post it. Have fun... Peace.
So happy you love my channel and personality and WOW I bet your large plants you have had for 25 years are INCREDIBLE :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Friday XXXX
Very helpful. Thanks x
So happy you found the video helpful, thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic day XXX
So interesting, informative and useful video! Thank you very much!
You look attractive and beautiful when smile. Keep on smiling each day!
Awwww thank you so very much Sim :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comments and for watching, Sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
wow, very good demonstration!!!
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending tons of love and heaps of plant power from Ireland XXXXX
Hi Lyn, an oldie but goodie here ( hahaha I've gone all 'smashie and nicey, blush😳) I'm searching your channel for advice on potting on cacti. Something some of my little ones are needing but I'm a wee bit nervous. Sending big smiles and thanks for all the great info. 🌺Tish
haha Tish so happy you like this re potting vid, its some years ago now but still the same method :-D thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Edinburgh for a FANTASTIC Friday XXXXX
I use the ruler on ceramic pots worked so far and no broken pots, I guess it might damage the roots a little bit, but not noticed anything happening because of it.
Thats a brilliant idea with using a ruler to loosen up the sides of the clay pot, thanks so much Billy for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic day XXXX
I love this video! and your shirt!!! lol, I just bought some small cactuses and I hope they get huge like these somday!!
c3r3br0b0t Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment :-) So happy you loved the video and the shirt haha! I love the Muppet Show :-) Sending you much love from Ireland XXXXX :-)
Hi there :-) Thanks so much for your WONDERFUL comment :-) Yes most liquid houseplant feeds are perfectly safe to give to cacti, I would use it at half strength though, I usually use chempak cactus feed or baby-bio or a liquid tomato feed and use it at half strength than they recommend for normal plants :-) Sending you much love and happiness from Ireland :-) XXXX
Finally a very good instruction video and so much good energy that just made my day even better :-) thank you very much. I do have a couple of questions: how do I know if my cactus needs reporting and what do I do when the roots are not in a great shape? Btw. I live in Florida and my "babies" just love it! Lol
Fantastic Vid Lyn,full of top tips. . . .You may have covered this in another Video but plastic or clay pots. . .You use both so doesn't it matter which pot to use? . . .I use clay pots for my Sweet Peppers ect because you have to make sure the roots don't burn
So happy you loved the repotting video Paul :-D yes I love to use both clay and plastic, I find the clay pots are great for the top heavy plants as it gives them a bit of added weight, I love to use clay pots for the cacti that have tuberous roots too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
Hey Lyn! One question. What do you do with really small cacti with a pot that are maybe 2 and a half or 2 inches wide?
Hi Michael :-D if the cacti are still very small, I always leave them in the same pot until they are much bigger, if the cacti are a lot smaller than the size of the pot, I make sure that I am extra careful with the watering, and only water around the base of the cactus and not the whole of the soil in the pot, you can transplant them into a smaller pot but when cacti are very young it may be best to leave them in the same pot even if the pot is bigger than ideal for them, and be extra careful with the watering, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX
Thank you I got a lot out of it
Very helpful video, thank you! I'm planning to re-pot my 7 year old, oft-neglected San Pedro cactus and had no idea what the root system was even like (I assume it's similar to those shown in this video)!
Mark Van Slyke Thank you so much Mark for your lovely comment :-) Yes the root system of your Pedro will be very similar to these two in the vid and when you re pot San Pedros they grow really fast after as I have found out with a few of mine :-) Thanks for watching and have a fantastic week ahead :-) XXXX
absolutely brilliant! 😍😍😍
So happy you loved the vid :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment an dfor watching and have a fantastic day today XXXX
Hello, love your accent, thanks for all the great tips! What kind of cactus is the tall one? I love the fuzzy bits around the spikey parts.
So happy you love my accent Gail :-D the tall one is a Pilosocereus azureus variety, its a wonderful cactus to grow, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a sunny Sunday XXXX
Nice presentation, you rock the cacti. GF1 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😎
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and watching and sending you an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald isle and have a wonderful Wednesday XXXXXX
I used clay pots to repot a barrel cactus for years until it got to big for me to take indoors in the Canadian winter. Whenever I repotted I would always put a largish piece of broke a clay pot over the drain hole. That way when I went to remove it for repotting I could push a stick or whatever up the drain hole and tap the plant out. I also did it when it was bone dry so it had shrunk a bit in the pot. Worked well!
Thanks so much for sharing your tips on re potting Bill and thank you for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle XXXXX
Lynn, I really enjoyed your video. It gave me many tips that I hadn't thought of and the photography and presentation was first class.
Daniel, Ballyduff, Waterford
+Daniel Cahill Thank you so much Daniel for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) and so happy to see you are also here in Waterford :-) Sending you much love and happiness for a FANTASTIC day ahead XXXXX
thanks for the videos. I have 2 questions...with the terracotta pot - do you have to break it? couldnt you just pull it off like the plastic one? Shame to waste a terracotta pot. And also your next size pots are not much bigger than the old one, I think you said leave a 1 inch gap.....Could you go a bit bigger with the next size up? Is there any harm re-potting to a much bigger pot? thanks!
Sending u loads of sun from Germany 🇩🇪
Thank you so much Thorsten, we definitely need the sun here, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Germany for a wonderful weekend XXXX
I loved the tips! Won a new inscribed, a big hug from the family admirers of nature!
Fab videos Lynn. Ireland? I am sure I can hear a hint of Black Country! Mavellous!
Chas Cox Thank you so much Chas for your lovely comment :-) Yes I am from Birmingham, i have been living in Ireland 8 years now, no sign of an Irish accent yet though haha! Thanks so much for watching and have a FANTASTIC day ahead XXXX
I left B'ham in the 70s to go to University......but still have a little "tang" in my voice especially after a pint or two! X
Thanks for the information
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness and PLANT POWER from Ireland for a fantastic Friday today XXXX
Thanks and wishing you the same thoughts from America :-)
Nice video helps me alot
Mark A Thank you so much Mark for watching and so pleased to hear that the video helped :-) Sending much love and happy growing for a fantastic weekend XXXX
whats this Lyn. cruelty to cactus, beating them with a hammer, seriously ,another good tip thanks again lots of Love and best wishes from north east Scotland
hahahaha Mike :-D so happy you enjoyed the repotting video :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Belfast to North East Scotland for a terrific Tuesday afternoon XXXXX
Brilliant! 🌵
thanks so much Lori
A faster method of filling the sides is to use a flexible sheet of hard plastic, add some your soil, bend, lift and slide the soil off along the sides. Do this all around the edges and tamp. Repeat until desired depth of soil is achieved.
Hi , I am new to all this but have just bought a few cactus from Ikea but notice they are planted in a peat based compost......would it be a good idea to re pot them into a cactus soil mix that you have done a video on ,and should I water them in as well.......great RUclips channel by the way......Mark..👍
Hi Mark :-D welcome to the wonderful world of growing these amazing plants, thats wonderful you have bought a few cacti from IKEA, they are great for plants and always good quality and great prices too, Yes its best to change the soil in the pots as peat is not the best for cacti, its ok short term but over time it can compact the roots and peat dries like cardboard and its always difficult to re wet peat, yes now Spring is as good as here I would repot them into cactus soil and then leave them totally dry for the first 10 days before starting to water them again, good luck with your wonderful new cacti and thanks so much for watching, sending you lots of love and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXXX
Desert Plants of Avalon hi Lyn...thanks for the info, will repot my new plants this weekend..super videos...your a bit of a babe by the way...🤙
@@Trident750UK Awwww haha ( blushing ) thank you so much XXXX
Thanks very much, Lyn. I have a very tall (70cm) Euphorbia which needs repotting. I'm thinking of using this as an opportunity to provide some sort of support. Please can you advise on the best form and size of support? I'm also worried about putting the stake through the root ball. Please comment.
Hi there, thats wonderful you have a large Euphorbia, its good to support them and I like to use bamboo canes to support any top heavy or over hanging plants, I use garden tie wire wrapped around the plant to support the plant onto the canes, you would be best to insert the cane/s into the new pot first, and then quarter fill the pot with the cane/s inside with the new succulent soil, then you can place your Euphorbia into the pot and soil and then tie the Euphorbia onto the cane/s with the garden tie wire, then fill up the rest of the pot and rootball, this will prevent you having to insert the cane through the rootball, you can use 3-4 bamboo canes made as a bit of a trellis support, Good luck with repotting your Euphorbia, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon Well I put the success of two Euphorbia, which have gone crazy, down to your grit, sand, Number 2 mix. Thanks for the advice .... that will be my project this week, if I can work up the 'courage'!
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This is Gold!, thanks for sharing!.
+Tomasz Zaleski Thanks so much for your wonderful comments :-) So happy that you are loving the vids :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you tons of love and heaps of happiness from Ireland to Venice Beach and have a BRILLIANT Tuesday ahead today XXXXX
Question did I see in a previous video a Eves Needle? If so please tell me how toget it to flower. I reside in Northern California.
Hi Debra :-D yes I have an Eve's needle cactus, although mine has never flowered yet, they can be difficult to get to flower, but they love plenty of sunshine and monthly fertilising in Spring and Summer, I like to use a weak strength fertilizer for tomatoes for my cacti as the extra potassium gives them a boost for flowering but these Eve's Needle cacti will usually flower when they get to be over 2-3 feet high, and it will be wonderful to see flowers on ours in the near future :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Northern California for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Hi, nice video. I do have a cactus in a pot but I want to transfer it to the soil. Can I do it? My cactus looks like the second cactus you repot in the video.
Hi Arthur :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) Unfortunately because i have only ever grown cacti in pots indoors and in the greenhouse because of living in Ireland, I really wouldn't know what to suggest for transplanting them outdoors in the garden as it can depend on many different things like the climate and where you live and the soil etc, so sorry I can't be any help with you on that one, but if you are blessed to be living in a warmer climate and drier climate you can certainly grow them outdoors in the garden if they are planted up in a well drained sandy soil :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from Ireland for a wonderful Wednesday ahead XXXX
I live in the capital of Brazil. The climate here is very dry. I will try plant it. Thank you for the answer! Greetins from Brazil.
Thank you so much Roger for your WONDERFUL comment :-) So happy you enjoyed the video, Sending you tons of love and happiness from Ireland :-) XXXX
Nice blue cactus
So happy you love the blue colour of this beautiful cactus Sai Sandeep Ponna :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comments and for watching and sending tons of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic afternoon XXXX
Aloha, Nice Video. Should the cactus be watered after transplanting?
Hi Tim :-) as mentioned at the end of my video do not water after transplanting for at least 2 weeks :-) sending much love and happy growing from Ireland XXXX
Guess I turned it off too early. Great video thanks!
if some desert plant need repoting. which is the best season to repot any cacti and succulent.
Hi! great video, any idea what the tall cactus species is?
So happy you enjoyed the video :-D yes the tall cactus is a Pilocereus azureus, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful plant powered day XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon awesome thank you so much. I've had one of those for a good 7-8 years and it's gotten huge. All the apps ive used to identify it have called out a different species. Re-potting it is going to be a tricky job. It came with 3 cactus in one, do you recommend I split them up or can they live together? Any tips you have would be appreciated, it's about six feet tall.
@@dm9363 WOW thats amazing at 6 feet tall, I would leave them together, I think because they are tall and very mature it can be very difficult to split them up as their roots will have grown together, I have two in the same pot that are about 6 feet tall too and they are doing really well, XXXXX
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Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching too XXXX
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Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment XXXX
Thanks so much Rick for your WONDERFUL comment :-) re-potting is definitely the one part of this hobby I am not so keen on haha! especially re-potting the very tall spiny ones, and when you have as many as me it can sometimes take me a whole week to re pot just one shelf of my plants haha! Sending you tons of love and happiness from across the pond Rick :-) XXXX
Hello, how are you?
I bumped into your videos a while ago, and i must say i find your energy very contagious! :)
As for your cacti videos they are very interesting, but i must say and please don't take this in a negative way, but i find your cacti mix too organic!
Personally i believe you should keep them in a much more mineral mix, as the more organic (cacti mix) normally sold is problematic even if you had a bit of perlite!
The main issue is the peat present in the mix.
You see after a while of being dry, it is painfully hard to get it wet again and that means it can get so hard and dry that unless you submerge the pot in water for quite a bit, areas in the pot will never get moist, the water will go just straight down to the bottom of the pot, the compost will pretty much not retain much of it for the cactus to suck up, and although people keep telling us to water it until you see water come out of the bottom, if the peat it just to dry, that tip is useless!!
If that doesn't happen then there's the risk that the peat present one day can keep you compost to wet for too long, and your cacti will rot, all it takes is watering it at the wrong time...I am sure we all been there...
Also when re potting you should try and remove as much of the old compost as possible, so that in a few years you do not end up with cactus roots enclosed in rock hard dry peat!
Not good for the pant at all!
It could be something that could require some time to get used to, but i believe a more mineral mix is a better compost, and in time it will be even easier to control the watering/moisture in your Melocactus for instance!
Also certain species don't like the acidity that peat brings, like certain kinds of Gymnocalycium.
Hope you don't take this post as a negative one i am just trying to share some bits of research and experience with a fellow grower.
Best regards!
Malvo0ovlaM Thank you so much for your lovely comment and for watching the vids :-) Thanks for all your great advice, I really appreciate it and I would never take it as negative at all :-) as i am always appreciative of any advice other growers are willing to share :-) I have noticed that a lot of the peat based composts are a pain to re wet again and they tend to dry up like cement when it comes to watering them again, I have found a few of the John innes no 2 composts a lot better as they are more soil based rather than peat based like a lot of the other ones, and John innes soil based composts are the ones I use but I have noticed a lot of john Innes composts still use a lot of peat in their compost mixes, so i really appreciate your advice of a more mineral mix and will do a bit more experimenting and I will definitely be looking out for a soil based compost that doesn't use any peat in it :-) Thank you so much for your advice and sending you tons of love and Happy Growing from Ireland and have a wonderful week ahead XXXX :-)
heartfullofhappiness Indeed John Innes still uses peat, something i only found out recently (i don't have access to it).
You could still use nº2 but to a less degree, like 20/30%, as going 100% mineral is indeed complicated, i know, because my transition wasn't very smooth and i ended up doing allot of mistakes.
So basically 20/30% John, and the rest could be composed of mineral material like pumice, which works very well. From my understanding around your area (Ireland, England etc) people use it so i recon you should have little trouble finding it, although it could be expensive.
Other things could be use just like random gravel/grit material, decomposed granite,crushed lava rock, or kitty litter! Yes kitty litter is also often used to great results! You could also use a bit of sand, but not too much because with time it could create a crust after being constantly wet, and then drying up, just a wee bit.
I would avoid using perlite because it has a nasty habit of floating to the surface.
Also be aware that the big columnar ones like a bit more organics on their mix so i would use more than 20/30% on them.
Try it out with a few plants for a year and see how it works out. You might need to fertilize them and water them a bit more than before but the risk of rot should be considerably less.
Cacti are amazing plants, it's a shame normally people just think of them as "green things with spines". They are amazing...for instance do you know that a considerable amount of cacti possess a certain bacteria that dissolve rock and provide nutrition them?
Quite amazing isn't it!
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Malvo0ovlaM WOW! Thank you sooooo much for all your gread advice, that is so brilliant to know, you have been a real help and I will definitely check out using this on all my future repottings, i think using the 30% John innes no 2 and the rest of grit and pumice, the pumice i have seen here in the garden centres, I have also noticed that perlite seems to float to the surface when I water them and gathers all at the top, so its definitely not the best, i have heard that cat litter is brilliant too, WOW! I never knew that a lot of cacti possess a certain bacteria that dissolves rocks and provides nutrition, thats incredible :-) Thanks so much for all the advice and info :-) Sending you an abundance of love and Happy growing from Ireland and have a wonderful day ahead XXXXX
You're so cuuute !! :D
LOL! thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) XXXXX
You're welcome !
I think u were awesome breaking the pots. Clay pots are cheap. Any injury could be permanent. You go girl
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-D sending an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle XXXXX
your brave girl love the video thanks.
Wow. Great tips. Thank you.
Thanks so much Rachel for your WONDERFUL comment :-) haha! yes re-potting is not my favourite part of the hobby, I often end up with a thorn or two in some strange places haha! Thanks for watching, Sending you much love and happiness from Ireland :-) XXXX
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Very useful video, thank you x
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and heaps of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Friday ahead XXXXXX
what they need as the soil can stay damp for much longer, I have never lost a plant to being under potted but in the past I have lost some from being over potted :-) Hope this helps, Sending you much love andfhappiness from Ireland :-) XXXX