"Cereus-validus" wrote in message
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Thanks a bunch, Franz.

I will be sure to keep you busy rearranging my postings for
posterity!!!

You sure must really like to cut and paste!!


"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"Cereus-validus" wrote in message
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"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jason
Scott
writes
I have just bought 3 cacti. They seem quite large for the
tiny
pots they
are
in. Is it OK to put them in bigger pots or do they like to
stay
confined
and
quite potbound?

No, they're not particularly fussy. But they do tend to fall
over
if the
pot is too small, and if they're the sort that have offshoots
the
offshoots can be a bit squashed by a small pot.

Don't repot them just yet - wait till they're in full growth
in
the
warmer weather - May or June. Use a strip of screwed up
newspaper
to
hold them if you're worried about the spines.
You need a well drained compost - either add some sharp sand
to
ordinary
potting compost, or buy a small bag of 'cacti compost'.

Cacti don't like to be cold and wet, so you can water them as
much
as
you like in the summer, but very little in the winter if
they're
indoors
on a windowsill and not at all if their in a greenhouse.

Give them as much light and sun as you can. Depending on type,
you
might
get flowers.

Exactly to which cacti do you allude, Kay?

Night blooming Cereus, giant cardoon or golden barrel?

Or are one of those enlightened souls that thinks Sempervivum
are
cacti?

I took the liberty of putting Cereus-validus' contribution in a
place
where the logical flow of the conversation is maintained a little
better than by top-posting.


Cereus-validus has just made sure that I will not read any more
contributions from him for a while.

Franz