Ich habe noch nie einen Kaktus gestützt und bräuchte konkrete Anweisungen, falls das überhaupt möglich ist.
Von: quirky_kelpie
Ich habe noch nie einen Kaktus gestützt und bräuchte konkrete Anweisungen, falls das überhaupt möglich ist.
Von: quirky_kelpie
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Yep, you can just cut a paddle and stick a paddle in dirt!
Carve off whatever size chunk you think you can stand up in your desired growing location. Wait a few days until the cut is calloused. Stick it a few inches deep in dirt.
Alternately, toss a few pads flat on open dirt and they’ll root from the pad faces underneath and start growing new pads from the top.
Tl;Dr these beautiful babies are dead easy to turn into new plants, and you can pretty much just stick hunks of whatever size you like whenever there’s room and they’ll probably grow lol.
Just make sure not to water for several weeks after planting. They need time to grow roots before they can do anything with water.
As easily as the others have previously stated… and the BIG bonus for you is the sheer amount of paddles available if some don’t go as expected.
As you can see (at least where you are) they can get pretty large. Plan accordingly.
Really you could just leave the whole cutting in the shade for a couple days, then plant it once the place it was cut is dried and a little tough. If you have dirt for a yard, throw some coarse sand in the hole to give the roots some room to wiggle as they grow. Then don’t water them for like a month. Bonus points for using some root hormone.
Instant biggish cacti.
Oh, the best way to move some that size up hat I have found is with an old carpet. Just roll it up like a burrito in the carpet. That species doesn’t have a horns, it has glochids, which are terrible little fiberglass like needles that hurt and itch. Also these should be edible, but I would double check. I have a bunch of nopales hat look exactly like these.
Ugh I’m so jealous lol. I would kill for even a piece of this! It’s a gorgeous plant! You’re definitely super lucky. Like the others said, it’s super easy to prop. I concur with the allowing it to callous over, then getting it set up in a couple inches of soil(make sure you have something to support it for a while if you decide to do the whole thing, just until the roots really take hold and it can support itself), and water in a week to 2 weeks. Placing the pad on top of the soil indeed works as well. Works for basically all cacti and succulents. 😁 Make sure it gets plenty of sun! Enjoy your new plant baby!
prickly pear! Beautiful plant and difficult *not* to prop. The fruit off of them is edible and tastes like dragonfruit (which is to say, mostly watery, a decent bit sweet, and just a hint of fruitiness)
Yes but it’s really hard due to its size and they fall apart and they are very spiky and all that maybe take like two or three leaves and try to propagate each one separately
Do it! One of the easiest to prop. I buy them in bulk for my tortoise (one of his favorite foods) and store my extras tucked into the soil. I’ve never had a paddle not root.