Unusual forms, beautiful bright colors and soft spines - we select unusual cacti so that no one can reproach you in the absence of fantasy.
Listed and showed beautiful cacti in a short video
1 cactus Slubberger
Another popular name of this plant is the Decembrist. All due to the fact that it blooms in December beautiful flowers of an unusual shape. The color of petals can vary from white and yellow to saturated pink or purple.
Despite the fact that it is a cactus, he does not have familiar sharp spines. The needles are soft and thin, more similar to the pile, so the plant can be started with those who have children at home.
Kaklberger cactus loves shadow, so it is better to put it on the windowsill, but a little further, for example, on the desktop or bookcase. Watering the plant can be possible once a half weeks, while flowering - a little more often.
2 Mammillaria
This is the most common type of home cacti, which is divided into a huge number of subspecies. They look like, but each blooms in different ways. Therefore, if you decide to the cactus garden at home, take different representatives of this kind so that the composition is interesting. For example, Mammillaria Boolii blooms large, the size of the plant itself, pink flowers. Formosa mummillary produces white flowers with a yellow core, resembling chamomile. Mammillaria Baumii has bright lemon yellow inflorescences.
In the warm season, these cactuses are watered once a week, and in the winter they fall into the hibernation, and it is important to cut watering up to one or three to four weeks so that the roots do not begin to rot.
3 Ripzalis
Rapsalis has long tubular shoots with small spines. At the beginning of autumn, the plant blooms yellow, white or pink flowers.
It is necessary to water only as the soil drying in a pot. If in the spring to make a fertilizer to cacti and succulents one or twice a month, then the plant will quickly develop enough, it turns out a lush green bush.
4 Ripzalidopsis
This plant resembles a cactus of Slubberger, but blooms in the spring, closer to Easter. Flowers at the same time large, exotic shape, most often saturated pink, crimson or white.
Ripsalidopsis needs watering every one or two weeks. It is possible to determine the correct time by the state of the soil: if it is still soft and a little wet - do not hurry with watering.
Cactus is well tolerated and scattered light in the depths of the room, and the straight rays of the sun on the windowsill.
5 SPOVATION
This is a kind of flat cacti. Among them are even frost-resistant varieties, so in the south of Russia, where the temperature is rarely lowered below 10 ° C, they are even grown in the open ground.
Some breeders offer the emplation, which was attached to an unusual form, for example, resembling the head of Mickey Maus. But even without such tricks, this cactus looks very nice and with good care blooms several times a year. To do this, it is necessary to observe the watering regime (once in 7-10 days), as well as to enter the fertilizer soil at the beginning of spring and autumn.
6 Echinopsis
One of the most unpretentious varieties that can be at home. I will survive if you ride it several times, does not require frequent transplants and fertilizer making, if the soil is well chosen.
Flowers since the beginning of spring orange, pink, crimson and yellow inflorescences. If at this time do not forget to water cactus once a week, then bloom will continue until six months.
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