How to care for cacti in winter

If you want your "barbed Collection" to please you with new buds in spring colors, then you will definitely need to learn the basic rules of care for cacti in the cold season.

Basic rules of watering and optimum temperature

Ensure suitable conditions for the existence of cacti - the main task! Many owners of these thorns know that you need to keep them at lower temperatures.

Acceptable performance on a thermometer in the range from +2 - + 12 degrees.

Temperature + 7 + 8 degrees - the optimum temperature.

A few recommendations:

1. Sharply limit the amount of irrigation - 3-4 times a week. Just a few drops of water - enough moisture for cacti from November to March.

2. During the period of "hibernation" cacti do not need to feed.

3. Take care that the plants did not get hot air streams from heaters.

4. Watch the stem of a cactus, if you thought he was much wrinkled, then you can sprinkle it a little water or pour a few drops of a pipette.

5. In the early spring period of "hibernation" ends at your spiny creatures.

The former care should start with spryskivaniya water, and then gradually start watering already.

6. Cacti are not afraid of drafts, so on a cold window sill or a loggia in the winter they will be comfortable.

In the case where watering cacti continues as before, the plants can not form a complete and good young tissue okolyuchenie at the point of a germ that can cause deformation of the stem, the thorns and the development of degenerative suspension of floral primordia bud.

Most cactus at a time when watering almost ceases and daylight is significantly reduced, automatically rearrange to "hibernate" - stops the growth of the stem, young tissues start slowly to ripen.

Grafting cactus in the cold season

In winter you can actively do transplanting plants, which are in complete rest. Cacti - this is no ordinary houseplants.

This type grows slowly, and transplant them need a lot less than the representatives of hardwood.

The process can begin in the late fall and finish closer to the middle of March. Transplanting is carried out according to a standard scheme.

I hope that these recommendations will be useful for beginners kaktusistov and help avoid some of the problems.