Hello Lyn, another excellent informative video! I always enjoy these videos. They are the behind the scene videos to growing the most healthy cacti and succulent plants like in your family. Thank you so much for the wonderful advice. Sending you and Hans peace, love and joy for a Plant Powered new week ahead from your friend in Georgia!
Hi Lyn hope your ok got another question for you 😆 I’m going to be getting a heater for my greenhouse this year it’s only a 10 by 8 so not too big. Which Heater would you recommend for heating the greenhouse in the winter but also being cost effective for running too. Keep up the good work 👍🏻🌵💚
So happy you loved the info and tips Peter :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and Ellyn lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Downunder for a terrific Thursday ahead XXXX
Oh yes, I definitely rake off all that hard compacted peat soil that they get sold growing in...its great for that early start of their young life and perfect for a short while in my opinion, but then once off the store shelves and they come into our homes it's a must, in my opinion, to repot and take off that peat soil, I'm used to doing this practice...😄 most of my repotting involves this 😆 great information Lyn and brilliantly explained. 😀💚🌵👍🏻
So happy you are the same with wanting to remove the awful peat soil that a lot of these cacti are sold in, and you always re pot your new plants so well and beautifully too, so happy you enjoyed the video, and not long to go now until Spring YIPPEEEE
thanks so much Rachel for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Belfast to Wexford for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Thats wonderful you change the soil on newly bought cactus too :-D thanks so much Youssef for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
So happy you enjoyed the info Bill :-D 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
Many of the cacti that are in your collection are of extreme importance for conservation and propogation. I absolutely loved seeing yours and Hans' grandfather lophophorae flowering together. Sending lots of cactus power from Texas!!
So happy you loved the very old Grandfather Lophophoras in bloom :-D they are amazing cacti and so very extra special, thanks so much Jackson for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Texas for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
So happy you love to repot new plants too Magda :-D the soil that shop bought plants are in is often so bad, thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday afternoon XXXX
Happy Growing😊🌵🍀Thanks for sharing tips and advice Lyn,I have a lot of repot to do,I have a lot of cacti that I didn’t bother to repot yet😓so they are still in their nursery pet soil pots.
Happy Growing Rhea :-D I am so looking forward to Spring to get repotting again haha, I hope the storms have not caused any damage for you, I think we have been very lucky here in Belfast with the storms not being too bad compared to the rest of Ireland and UK
Good advice, for sure. What a beautiful cactus! What a shame they don’t pot these up with their long term survival in mind. I guess they go the cheapest route and just use peat. 😕🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵💕
So happy you loved the video Michele, I know its such a shame that the plant nurseries are only after a quick sell, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX
👍👍For Hans for filming! Lovely interesting video...so good to know! I don't normally change the soil as soon as I buy a plant as they say you have to let the plant climatize the new environment! But from now on I will change it right away! Thanks for the information! Have an amazing Sunday evening Lyn and Hans! Sending you lots of love!🌵🌷☘
So happy you loved the video and the information Sylvia :-D and Hans is so happy you are giving him big thumbs up for his filming haha, thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a wonderful Wednesday afternoon XXXX
So happy you love the cactus Jillian :-D 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 XXXX
thanks so much Angela for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Awwww haha thank you so much Amanda :-D so happy you enjoy my videos, 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
Great video Lyn!! Yes, unfortunately commercial growers use peat soil cause it's cheap & readily available. Good ingredients cost more, so it makes them more money to use a cheaper product. I think it's always best to repot after a purchase. The only time I won't is if the plant is in bud. Cause many times if you remove their soil for repotting, they drop the buds. So I always let them bloom first. Can't miss the show!!! Thanks for sharing this great info!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, to across the emerald isle, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🏵🌴🌺🪴🌹🌲🌷🌳😃👍
So happy you enjoyed the video Clyde :-D thats a very good point you have made with holding back with repotting if the cacti are in bud, I forgot to mention that haha, Echinopsis are especially prone to dropping their buds if repotted when coming into bud :-D thanks so much Clyde for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb and all the pets and plants all lots of love and happiness and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS and PLANT POWER to Morris Park in the Ozarks for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Excellent video, Lyn. I always repot newly bought plants. I didn’t in the past and paid the price with root mealies. A lot of the soil they use is pretty nasty, too. Thank you for sharing with us as always, Lyn. Have a wonderful evening and upcoming new week from Edith & myself to you and Hans ❤️🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
So happy you loved the video Daz :-D yes the soil that shop bought cacti are potted up in is usually so awful and I have even seen Cacti potted in glued stones, and root mealies love the peat that a lot of these cacti are potted up in, thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
I really enjoy how you share the nuances of cacti. I thought I was good with plants until I started owning cacti & succulents. My plant survival rate plummeted. Maybe I’m starting to rebound. It’s not so much my pride I care about, it gets expensive buying more and more plants for a smaller and smaller collection.
One thing I have found is to research your plant and find out as much about its native environment as possible. Most people think of cacti as living out on a flat, sandy stretch in full sun, and some do, but there many other habitats where cacti grow. Many cacti live on steep rocky slopes where any rain that falls runs straight down hill and only sinks in to a depth of a quarter or half inch. Many grow in prairie turf, hidden by the tall grass. Others grow in dappled shade under ironwood, mesquite, or palo verde. A huge group grow in the branches of rain forest trees. One group, copiapoas, grow on the lower slopes of the Andes in Peru and Chile, where it seldom rains more than once a year, but heavy fogs roll in off the Pacific, and they get enough water from that to survive. A few even grow in the bitter winters of Canada. Cacti grow from Patagonia to above the Canadian border, and in all the climates in between. Knowing where they come from helps you know what conditions they want in your home.
Hi there :-D Yes Emmit has mentioned really amazing tips here, it really does help so much when you can find out how the cacti live in their natural habitats, and then its helps so much when it comes to knowing how to give them the best possible care when growing them in cultivation
@@desertplantsofavalon The major brand of Cactus Mix soil seems to have none of the heavyweights that you mention as nearly 2/3 of the mix. It doesn’t pack down, nor hold the roots in place. So, of course, I go and water it. The cacti don’t like me, yet. I’m not speaking their language. I thought they would be easier.
So happy you enjoyed the video Jon :-D 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
Thanks so much for sharing how you treat your new plants Alex :-D and its so good to let new plants to adjust and acclimatize to the new light levels, especially as so many cacti for sale in the stores are often kept under the tables in poor light, thanks so much Alex for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Philly for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
So happy you enjoyed the video Vera :-D 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 XXXX
OH,how I wished I had Seen this vid 3/2 weeks ago, There was a charity stall in our local town square, that Was raising funds for a charity (and nothing wrong with that) That was selling on all type's of plant's! Great, As I am just getting into cactus and succulent I simply had a look(as we all do)and yes there was about 20. I got 5 beautiful plants all for £2 each. Repoting was the furthest thing from my mind, And I have just watered them for the time in eight days. So on watching your vid I have just inspected them, And found that one of the cactus feels like it's in a Block of concrete?? So I assume that the substrate was incorrect The plant it's self looks fine? So while typing this reply to your great vid I am going To leave it for a couple of days, and then have a second look Before making the decision to repot. Thanks again too you both for the first class information And keep up the good work, Bill.
Thats fantastic you bought 5 new plants from the Charity stall and I bet they are beauties, thats wonderful you are going to check them over, sometimes the soil can be good quality but a lot of the time the soil that is used for a lot of cacti for sale can be very high in peat and not the best for cactus, thanks so much Bill for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a brilliant afternoon XXXX
thanks so much Tarman 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
Great advice as usual! Yeah I discovered I was able to buy cacti and succulents off of Etsy. I really shouldn't have discovered that lol. I've purchased well over a dozen now and I'm running out of shelf space 🤣
haha Mike :-D it is just far too tempting, and Etsy can be really good for finding the more hard to get cacti, 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
I saw some cactus for sale today in Wilko,s and noticed they had glued flowers on them. Is this usual practice ?? . I didn't buy for that exact reason. Have a good Sunday evening and thanks for a great video m Much love
We've mentioned this before. It's a barbaric custom but a lot of big box stores do this. The nurseries actually offer the store the choice of having these things glued on, and the store decides to have it done. What they are is called strawflowers. They come from a plant whose petals are stiff and stay on when dried. They are dried, then dyed bright colors. Then the individual blossoms are cut off and glued on the cactus. They can be removed, but it's a tricky process and it's easy to injure the plant, leaving a scar that will take years for the plant to outgrow. Th important thing to know is what type of glue is used If the cactus is a rare or unusual, I will buy it, but the first thing I do when I get home is to carefully remove the false flower.
@@emmitstewart1921 Thank you for replying. Emmit. Interesting what they do to make a sale I would prefer just a plane cactus unless it was the real flower &hopefully this channel will help me achieve that. Thank you again. 🙂
@@emmitstewart1921 wow Emmit, I didn't actually know that the shops or stores CHOOSE the option of having cactus sent out to them with either flowers glued on or not... this in my opinion needs to stop, its not good for so called popular high street stores who go out of their way to improve many things, such as less packaging, caring for the environment etc, to then have these poor cactus lavished on their shelves that are covered in hot glue all on their spines, areoles and skin, it's bad practice. I wish they would STOP choosing to have cactus with fake flowers, makes me angry every year I see this. Sometimes as you mention, you see the odd rarer cactus amongst them... that's screaming to be saved, sometimes it will do more damage removing the glue, its a shame. I've rescued a few, but now just stop buying them, to do my bit in reducing demand. Just my thoughts. 😊🌵
@@CactusCove I think that it's a matter of informing the public. I was in Home Depot a couple of years ago and heard two women talking about the flowers, so I told them they were fake. They were totally surprised. It is exactly similar to the situation of baby turtles back in the seventies. some breeders had taken to painting designs on the backs of turtle shells. When the television newscaster started running stories showing how the practice was harming the turtles and showing shots of how it was deforming the shells as the turtles grew, the practice was soon stopped, and laws were passed outlawing the practice. Gluing fake flowers on cacti is basically fraud. the intent is to fool the buyers into thinking a blooming plant when it is not.
Sean is keeping really well and has been very busy with his Photography and work, I will tell him you are asking about him :-D 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 XXXX
Hi Kevin :-D I wouldn't use Ericaceous compost myself for cacti as I think it would be far too water retentive and cactus soil needs to be very well draining and very gritty, its best to use a more gritty and sandy loam based soil, thank so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle XXXX
I have a question. If the mix growers use to sell plants is so bad (high peat) why do they grow really well and look amazing (in most instances) I’ve had many a plant from a box store grown in high peat and it’s extremely healthy?
Hi there, I think its because they grow these plants under special lights and conditions and the garden nurseries keep these cacti growing all year round to get them to grow much faster, these plants can grow well at first in high peat soils especially when the soil rarely gets to dry out in the nurseries and the roots will grow quite fast initially, but over time peat can start to deteriorate and dries like cardboard and makes it very hard to re wet again, and it can be difficult to remove from the roots if it is left to go dry for too long, 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 XXXX
This is House plant 101 and can apply to any kind of potted plant. The first thing you do with any plant when you get it home is to inspect it from top to bottom. Use a magnifying glass, or better yet, a jeweler's loupe (I use a 10x magnification) to look very closely. Start with the visible part of the plant. Look for mealybugs, scale, aphids, thrip, white fly, and spider mites. Be sure to look under the leaves and along the stems. Bugs love to hide in these places. Scale and mealybugs will attack the stems, and white fly and mites cluster under the leaves. If the plant is in bloom, examine the blossoms for thrip, which love to munch on flowers. Once the top has passed inspection, tip the plant out of its pot and examine the root system. The most common thing you will find is pot binding. If you cannot see the soil because of the roots, and you can see a coil of roots twisting around and around the bottom of the pot, it is rootbound. You need to pot the plant up on the first occasion. For most common house plants, that means immediately. For cacti and succulents during dormancy, wait until spring. Then check for pests. Root mealy bug and thrip are common, but you don't want to see anything moving down there. Centipedes, isopods, (pill bugs, woodlice) and earthworms, are harmless in themselves, but their tunnels can cause problems. They are a sign that the grower used unsterilized garden soil, and you need to do a complete soil change.
Thanks so very much Emmit for all this FANTASTIC advice, its so good to give new plants a thorough check all over from top to roots, the little Jewellers loupes are perfect for getting up close to inspect in between all the areoles for signs of insect pests, 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
@@desertplantsofavalon I just had an example of the need to examine new plants this month. I was shopping at Walmart and saw a plant of what I think is crassula tetragona sitting on the bottom shelf. I didn't have one, so I bought it. When I got it home, I took it out of its pot and found it had been overwatered while sitting on that shady shelf. All the below ground parts of the stems and most of the roots were rotted. The above ground stems seemed okay, and some of them had a few healthy roots on them. First thing, I threw away the pot and that peaty soil. Then I washed the roots and cut away any dead tissue. Then I let all of the cut ends callus over for a couple days. I planted them in a shallow pot like cuttings in good cactus soil. some of them did not survive, but it looks like I may get three or four plants out of the batch. If I hadn't examined the roots, I would have probably lost the whole thing. We need to remember that most stores look at potted plants as perishable produce. They bring them in, sell them as fast as possible, and calculate on a short shelf life and a certain amount of loss. Unless you get in while the plants are fresh from the nursery, you are taking a chance on every plant you buy. Usually, your chances are pretty good, but sometimes you roll snake eyes.
@@emmitstewart1921 Well done on saving a few of the plants from the Crassula tetragona you bought, and so very true its definitely best to buy the plants when they have recently been brought in from the nurseries, as they decline so fast once in the plant stores, thanks so much for sharing Emmit XXXX
So happy you enjoyed the video :-D yes you can repot store bought cacti in Winter, and then keep them dry with no water until the spring time, 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 super Sunday XXXX
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Hi Lynn, thank you for the video ! I bought a cactus recently and it is pretty root bound in very organic soil. Should i wash the bad soil off or just work it through ? I am scared of harming it by breaking the roots. Also you mentionned using dry soil, should i mix the different parts and then let it air dry ? Thank you again !
Washing the soil off is much gentler than using some kind of tool, but sometimes you have to use a tool to loosen the rootball enough for the water to do its job. I use a homemade bonsai root rake for the job. Whatever you do, do not use a tool that has a sharp point or edge. The idea is to glide between the roots and gently comb them out. Some roots are going to break inevitably, but the plant has ways to compensate for that. In the desert there are times of drought when no rain falls for months, and often several years at a time. At such times, all the feeder roots dry up and die, leaving only the thickest roots. When it rains, new feeder roots quickly sprout. Remember, when you comb or brush your hair, some of that hair breaks off in the comb or brush, but new hair grows in to replace it so that you never really miss it unless you are going bald. Once you have the roots combed out straight, wash the soil out completely with a gentle stream of water or gently agitate them by hand in a bucket of water. Once the soil is washed out, pat them dry with a wadded paper towel. Then, spread the roots out and repot them. Make sure that you fill all the spaces between the roots with soil and use dry soil. Dry soil fills in more quickly and works its way more easily between the roots. Once repotted, do not water for a week. Lyn always says, "to let the plant get used to its new home". But it also lets any broken root ends heal
Hi there :-D yes its best to wait until your cactus has stopped flowering before you repot, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful plant powered Sunday XXXX
Hi Guys :-D Should you Repot Newly Bought Potted Cactus ?
Yes! Carefully.
Hello Lyn, another excellent informative video! I always enjoy these videos. They are the behind the scene videos to growing the most healthy cacti and succulent plants like in your family. Thank you so much for the wonderful advice. Sending you and Hans peace, love and joy for a Plant Powered new week ahead from your friend in Georgia!
@@jacksonsmith5490 Thank you so much Jackson XXXXX
Hi Lyn hope your ok got another question for you 😆 I’m going to be getting a heater for my greenhouse this year it’s only a 10 by 8 so not too big. Which Heater would you recommend for heating the greenhouse in the winter but also being cost effective for running too. Keep up the good work 👍🏻🌵💚
@@kevinworrall4904 Hi Kevin :-D Happy 1st March to you
Hi Lyn, great information hints and tips 👍. 🌵🌵🌵🌵⚘😘👍👊
So happy you loved the info and tips Peter :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and Ellyn lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Downunder for a terrific Thursday ahead XXXX
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Oh yes, I definitely rake off all that hard compacted peat soil that they get sold growing in...its great for that early start of their young life and perfect for a short while in my opinion, but then once off the store shelves and they come into our homes it's a must, in my opinion, to repot and take off that peat soil, I'm used to doing this practice...😄 most of my repotting involves this 😆 great information Lyn and brilliantly explained. 😀💚🌵👍🏻
So happy you are the same with wanting to remove the awful peat soil that a lot of these cacti are sold in, and you always re pot your new plants so well and beautifully too, so happy you enjoyed the video, and not long to go now until Spring YIPPEEEE
Very good advice. Thank you.
thanks so much Rachel for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Belfast to Wexford for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Yeeees i always do repot the plants that i buy and change their soil to mine
Thats wonderful you change the soil on newly bought cactus too :-D thanks so much Youssef for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Thanks for the info. I appreciate your time.
So happy you enjoyed the info Bill :-D 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
Many of the cacti that are in your collection are of extreme importance for conservation and propogation. I absolutely loved seeing yours and Hans' grandfather lophophorae flowering together. Sending lots of cactus power from Texas!!
So happy you loved the very old Grandfather Lophophoras in bloom :-D they are amazing cacti and so very extra special, thanks so much Jackson for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Texas for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
And for those precise reasons I repot any new plants🙂 good video
So happy you love to repot new plants too Magda :-D the soil that shop bought plants are in is often so bad, thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday afternoon XXXX
Happy Growing😊🌵🍀Thanks for sharing tips and advice Lyn,I have a lot of repot to do,I have a lot of cacti that I didn’t bother to repot yet😓so they are still in their nursery pet soil pots.
Happy Growing Rhea :-D I am so looking forward to Spring to get repotting again haha, I hope the storms have not caused any damage for you, I think we have been very lucky here in Belfast with the storms not being too bad compared to the rest of Ireland and UK
Good advice, for sure. What a beautiful cactus! What a shame they don’t pot these up with their long term survival in mind. I guess they go the cheapest route and just use peat. 😕🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵💕
So happy you loved the video Michele, I know its such a shame that the plant nurseries are only after a quick sell, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX
👍👍For Hans for filming! Lovely interesting video...so good to know! I don't normally change the soil as soon as I buy a plant as they say you have to let the plant climatize the new environment! But from now on I will change it right away! Thanks for the information! Have an amazing Sunday evening Lyn and Hans! Sending you lots of love!🌵🌷☘
So happy you loved the video and the information Sylvia :-D and Hans is so happy you are giving him big thumbs up for his filming haha, thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a wonderful Wednesday afternoon XXXX
Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing cactus have a blessed day my friend have
So happy you love the cactus Jillian :-D 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 XXXX
Thanks for info 👍
thanks so much Angela for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Always enjoy learning more from our cactus guru Lyn. Thank you for sharing.🌹
Awwww haha thank you so much Amanda :-D so happy you enjoy my videos, 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
@@desertplantsofavalon Thank you so much Lyn...Bless you🦋
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Great video Lyn!! Yes, unfortunately commercial growers use peat soil cause it's cheap & readily available. Good ingredients cost more, so it makes them more money to use a cheaper product. I think it's always best to repot after a purchase. The only time I won't is if the plant is in bud. Cause many times if you remove their soil for repotting, they drop the buds. So I always let them bloom first. Can't miss the show!!! Thanks for sharing this great info!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, to across the emerald isle, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🏵🌴🌺🪴🌹🌲🌷🌳😃👍
Peat isn't junk, it's actually fine in a commercial environment. Commercial growers have different end goals and peat is a great choice for them.
So happy you enjoyed the video Clyde :-D thats a very good point you have made with holding back with repotting if the cacti are in bud, I forgot to mention that haha, Echinopsis are especially prone to dropping their buds if repotted when coming into bud :-D thanks so much Clyde for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb and all the pets and plants all lots of love and happiness and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS and PLANT POWER to Morris Park in the Ozarks for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Excellent video, Lyn. I always repot newly bought plants. I didn’t in the past and paid the price with root mealies. A lot of the soil they use is pretty nasty, too. Thank you for sharing with us as always, Lyn. Have a wonderful evening and upcoming new week from Edith & myself to you and Hans ❤️🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
So happy you loved the video Daz :-D yes the soil that shop bought cacti are potted up in is usually so awful and I have even seen Cacti potted in glued stones, and root mealies love the peat that a lot of these cacti are potted up in, thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
I really enjoy how you share the nuances of cacti. I thought I was good with plants until I started owning cacti & succulents. My plant survival rate plummeted. Maybe I’m starting to rebound. It’s not so much my pride I care about, it gets expensive buying more and more plants for a smaller and smaller collection.
One thing I have found is to research your plant and find out as much about its native environment as possible. Most people think of cacti as living out on a flat, sandy stretch in full sun, and some do, but there many other habitats where cacti grow. Many cacti live on steep rocky slopes where any rain that falls runs straight down hill and only sinks in to a depth of a quarter or half inch. Many grow in prairie turf, hidden by the tall grass. Others grow in dappled shade under ironwood, mesquite, or palo verde. A huge group grow in the branches of rain forest trees. One group, copiapoas, grow on the lower slopes of the Andes in Peru and Chile, where it seldom rains more than once a year, but heavy fogs roll in off the Pacific, and they get enough water from that to survive. A few even grow in the bitter winters of Canada. Cacti grow from Patagonia to above the Canadian border, and in all the climates in between. Knowing where they come from helps you know what conditions they want in your home.
Hi there :-D Yes Emmit has mentioned really amazing tips here, it really does help so much when you can find out how the cacti live in their natural habitats, and then its helps so much when it comes to knowing how to give them the best possible care when growing them in cultivation
@@desertplantsofavalon The major brand of Cactus Mix soil seems to have none of the heavyweights that you mention as nearly 2/3 of the mix. It doesn’t pack down, nor hold the roots in place. So, of course, I go and water it. The cacti don’t like me, yet. I’m not speaking their language. I thought they would be easier.
Super advice Lyn, the peat these cacti and succulents come in is awful and glad you said not to water them now, just repot 🌵
So happy you enjoyed the video Jon :-D 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
I don't repot new plants right away. I allow them to pass quarantine and adjust to the proper light for a few weeks. Then I change it all out
Thanks so much for sharing how you treat your new plants Alex :-D and its so good to let new plants to adjust and acclimatize to the new light levels, especially as so many cacti for sale in the stores are often kept under the tables in poor light, thanks so much Alex for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Philly for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Thank you for sharing, Lyn. Really interesting as usual!
So happy you enjoyed the video Vera :-D 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 XXXX
OH,how I wished I had Seen this vid 3/2 weeks ago,
There was a charity stall in our local town square, that
Was raising funds for a charity (and nothing wrong with that)
That was selling on all type's of plant's! Great,
As I am just getting into cactus and succulent
I simply had a look(as we all do)and yes there was about 20.
I got 5 beautiful plants all for £2 each.
Repoting was the furthest thing from my mind,
And I have just watered them for the time in eight days.
So on watching your vid I have just inspected them,
And found that one of the cactus feels like it's in a
Block of concrete??
So I assume that the substrate was incorrect
The plant it's self looks fine?
So while typing this reply to your great vid I am going
To leave it for a couple of days, and then have a second look
Before making the decision to repot.
Thanks again too you both for the first class information
And keep up the good work, Bill.
Thats fantastic you bought 5 new plants from the Charity stall and I bet they are beauties, thats wonderful you are going to check them over, sometimes the soil can be good quality but a lot of the time the soil that is used for a lot of cacti for sale can be very high in peat and not the best for cactus, thanks so much Bill for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a brilliant afternoon XXXX
Nice video...
thanks so much Tarman 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
Great advice as usual! Yeah I discovered I was able to buy cacti and succulents off of Etsy. I really shouldn't have discovered that lol. I've purchased well over a dozen now and I'm running out of shelf space 🤣
haha Mike :-D it is just far too tempting, and Etsy can be really good for finding the more hard to get cacti, 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
I saw some cactus for sale today in Wilko,s and noticed they had glued flowers on them. Is this usual practice ??
. I didn't buy for that exact reason.
Have a good Sunday evening and thanks for a great video
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Much love
We've mentioned this before. It's a barbaric custom but a lot of big box stores do this. The nurseries actually offer the store the choice of having these things glued on, and the store decides to have it done. What they are is called strawflowers. They come from a plant whose petals are stiff and stay on when dried. They are dried, then dyed bright colors. Then the individual blossoms are cut off and glued on the cactus. They can be removed, but it's a tricky process and it's easy to injure the plant, leaving a scar that will take years for the plant to outgrow. Th important thing to know is what type of glue is used If the cactus is a rare or unusual, I will buy it, but the first thing I do when I get home is to carefully remove the false flower.
@@emmitstewart1921 Thank you for replying. Emmit. Interesting what they do to make a sale I would prefer just a plane cactus unless it was the real flower &hopefully this channel will help me achieve that. Thank you again. 🙂
Hi Maxie
@@emmitstewart1921 wow Emmit, I didn't actually know that the shops or stores CHOOSE the option of having cactus sent out to them with either flowers glued on or not... this in my opinion needs to stop, its not good for so called popular high street stores who go out of their way to improve many things, such as less packaging, caring for the environment etc, to then have these poor cactus lavished on their shelves that are covered in hot glue all on their spines, areoles and skin, it's bad practice. I wish they would STOP choosing to have cactus with fake flowers, makes me angry every year I see this. Sometimes as you mention, you see the odd rarer cactus amongst them... that's screaming to be saved, sometimes it will do more damage removing the glue, its a shame. I've rescued a few, but now just stop buying them, to do my bit in reducing demand. Just my thoughts. 😊🌵
@@CactusCove I think that it's a matter of informing the public. I was in Home Depot a couple of years ago and heard two women talking about the flowers, so I told them they were fake. They were totally surprised. It is exactly similar to the situation of baby turtles back in the seventies. some breeders had taken to painting designs on the backs of turtle shells. When the television newscaster started running stories showing how the practice was harming the turtles and showing shots of how it was deforming the shells as the turtles grew, the practice was soon stopped, and laws were passed outlawing the practice.
Gluing fake flowers on cacti is basically fraud. the intent is to fool the buyers into thinking a blooming plant when it is not.
Where’s Sean?? Really missing his videos… been quiet a long time 😢
Sean is keeping really well and has been very busy with his Photography and work, I will tell him you are asking about him :-D 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 XXXX
Hi Lyn hope you and Hans are well, would I be ok to use a Ericaceous compost for my cacti mix, as there acidic loving plants? Thanks again Kev 🌵👍🏻💚
Hi Kevin :-D I wouldn't use Ericaceous compost myself for cacti as I think it would be far too water retentive and cactus soil needs to be very well draining and very gritty, its best to use a more gritty and sandy loam based soil, thank so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle XXXX
I have a question. If the mix growers use to sell plants is so bad (high peat) why do they grow really well and look amazing (in most instances) I’ve had many a plant from a box store grown in high peat and it’s extremely healthy?
Hi there, I think its because they grow these plants under special lights and conditions and the garden nurseries keep these cacti growing all year round to get them to grow much faster, these plants can grow well at first in high peat soils especially when the soil rarely gets to dry out in the nurseries and the roots will grow quite fast initially, but over time peat can start to deteriorate and dries like cardboard and makes it very hard to re wet again, and it can be difficult to remove from the roots if it is left to go dry for too long, 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 XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon thanks for taking the time to reply.
@@RedWolfRedWolfRedWolf XXXXX
This is House plant 101 and can apply to any kind of potted plant. The first thing you do with any plant when you get it home is to inspect it from top to bottom. Use a magnifying glass, or better yet, a jeweler's loupe (I use a 10x magnification) to look very closely. Start with the visible part of the plant. Look for mealybugs, scale, aphids, thrip, white fly, and spider mites. Be sure to look under the leaves and along the stems. Bugs love to hide in these places. Scale and mealybugs will attack the stems, and white fly and mites cluster under the leaves. If the plant is in bloom, examine the blossoms for thrip, which love to munch on flowers.
Once the top has passed inspection, tip the plant out of its pot and examine the root system. The most common thing you will find is pot binding. If you cannot see the soil because of the roots, and you can see a coil of roots twisting around and around the bottom of the pot, it is rootbound. You need to pot the plant up on the first occasion. For most common house plants, that means immediately. For cacti and succulents during dormancy, wait until spring. Then check for pests. Root mealy bug and thrip are common, but you don't want to see anything moving down there. Centipedes, isopods, (pill bugs, woodlice) and earthworms, are harmless in themselves, but their tunnels can cause problems. They are a sign that the grower used unsterilized garden soil, and you need to do a complete soil change.
Thanks so very much Emmit for all this FANTASTIC advice, its so good to give new plants a thorough check all over from top to roots, the little Jewellers loupes are perfect for getting up close to inspect in between all the areoles for signs of insect pests, 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
@@desertplantsofavalon I just had an example of the need to examine new plants this month. I was shopping at Walmart and saw a plant of what I think is crassula tetragona sitting on the bottom shelf. I didn't have one, so I bought it.
When I got it home, I took it out of its pot and found it had been overwatered while sitting on that shady shelf. All the below ground parts of the stems and most of the roots were rotted. The above ground stems seemed okay, and some of them had a few healthy roots on them.
First thing, I threw away the pot and that peaty soil. Then I washed the roots and cut away any dead tissue. Then I let all of the cut ends callus over for a couple days. I planted them in a shallow pot like cuttings in good cactus soil.
some of them did not survive, but it looks like I may get three or four plants out of the batch. If I hadn't examined the roots, I would have probably lost the whole thing.
We need to remember that most stores look at potted plants as perishable produce. They bring them in, sell them as fast as possible, and calculate on a short shelf life and a certain amount of loss. Unless you get in while the plants are fresh from the nursery, you are taking a chance on every plant you buy. Usually, your chances are pretty good, but sometimes you roll snake eyes.
@@emmitstewart1921 Well done on saving a few of the plants from the Crassula tetragona you bought, and so very true its definitely best to buy the plants when they have recently been brought in from the nurseries, as they decline so fast once in the plant stores, thanks so much for sharing Emmit XXXX
Thanks for your video!!! So, I can repot store bought plants in winter? Then water in spring?
So happy you enjoyed the video :-D yes you can repot store bought cacti in Winter, and then keep them dry with no water until the spring time, 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 super Sunday XXXX
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Thank you so very much for letting me know
Hi Lynn, thank you for the video ! I bought a cactus recently and it is pretty root bound in very organic soil. Should i wash the bad soil off or just work it through ? I am scared of harming it by breaking the roots. Also you mentionned using dry soil, should i mix the different parts and then let it air dry ? Thank you again !
Washing the soil off is much gentler than using some kind of tool, but sometimes you have to use a tool to loosen the rootball enough for the water to do its job. I use a homemade bonsai root rake for the job. Whatever you do, do not use a tool that has a sharp point or edge. The idea is to glide between the roots and gently comb them out. Some roots are going to break inevitably, but the plant has ways to compensate for that. In the desert there are times of drought when no rain falls for months, and often several years at a time. At such times, all the feeder roots dry up and die, leaving only the thickest roots. When it rains, new feeder roots quickly sprout. Remember, when you comb or brush your hair, some of that hair breaks off in the comb or brush, but new hair grows in to replace it so that you never really miss it unless you are going bald. Once you have the roots combed out straight, wash the soil out completely with a gentle stream of water or gently agitate them by hand in a bucket of water. Once the soil is washed out, pat them dry with a wadded paper towel. Then, spread the roots out and repot them. Make sure that you fill all the spaces between the roots with soil and use dry soil. Dry soil fills in more quickly and works its way more easily between the roots. Once repotted, do not water for a week. Lyn always says, "to let the plant get used to its new home". But it also lets any broken root ends heal
@@emmitstewart1921 Absolutely EXCELLENT advice Emmit
Hi Noee
Hi! I’ve just bought a cactus today from a garden centre that’s in bud. Should I leave the soil and repotting till it’s flowered? Ty
Hi there :-D yes its best to wait until your cactus has stopped flowering before you repot, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful plant powered Sunday XXXX