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The Care of the Cactus
The cactus as we all know are plants that withstand extreme conditions in nature, under conditions in which other plants will be impossible to survive, this is because they have the amazing ability to store water within the stem by way of reserve able to withstand long periods of drought which have to face, another main feature of this plant are the strong spikes which are available to protect the water of the animals they see as water reserves. These plants can be deducted as they are great lovers of sunshine and dry environments, where they develop fully.
At the time of planting and cultivating must pay special attention to land with which we do, it must be a land that drains well to prevent excess moisture that will be the main cause of disease and development of fungi in these plants, to cultivate an ideal mixture is one third of one third peat with coarse sand and a ground charcoal to be the property of preventing the emergence of fungi by an excess of humidity.
Planting cacti can do one of two ways, by seeds in a mixture of earth as the aforementioned and a gravel base to allow the permeability, or by cutting.
The way of watering this plant ranges from traditional plants, it is preferable that the sin of little watering as this will not kill too quickly to our facility, however due to lack of irrigation is very rare that the plant is dying and this was detected yellowing rapidly adopt our plant.
When watering we must ensure that the soil is completely dry at this time proceed to make a very abundant irrigation, completely soaking the ground and directly to avoid wetting the plant. You have to fertilize the soil in which to develop your cactus.
One of the most common diseases that can have our plant is the appearance of fungi, this is mainly due to excess moisture and is shown as a white fuzz that appears on our floor, to get rid of it will be necessary to transplant the cactus to another site and placed in an aerated sunniest and other pests that can affect our cochineal cactus may or red spider, the best way to fight them will prevent our cactus spraying at least a couple of times a year .