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I want to start making my own but right now, for the majority of them, E.B. Stone cactus mix. It has too much peat IMO so I compensate with some natural gravel to promote drainage.What soil do you choose for your cactusSW-EDC That is always a quandary of mine when I plant a cactus. I don't like to re-pot them. Do you keep your pot sizes small and let the cactus grow into the size or keep them smaller?
I love this picture!! Christmas cactus aren't really cactus in the classic sense. I like them quite a bit. On the larger ones, when one of the brachs break or fall off, I often try to start a new plant. I have about a 50-50 success ratio rooting them. I have not found them "easy" to root as some people say.I love cactus, living in the Southwest we get our share! My wife has some she's bought and some that have just showed up. Their ability to survive is amazing! We have one Christmas Cactus that always pleases. A couple of years a go we were staying at a B&B and they had a large version of CC, it was flowering beautifully, planted in an old ringer washing machine. We got a clipping, it's doing OK but hasn't bloomed in 5 years!
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We have Agave all over the yard, we had one flower a few years ago, I'll do another post on it. Here one is being visited by our local turkeys:
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No, that's red granite. Volcanic rock is porous. Here is some.SW-EDC Is that the volcanic rock you were speaking of? Pot looks pretty big, but the angle may exaggerate the height. I need to get at least one of those and get back into the Cactus saddle. I presently grow lots of Christmas Cactus.... all the colors that I am aware of. You're right about root rot being the cactus killer. I get a kick out of some of the advertising saying yellow christmas cactus are rare. I have quite a few. The difficult to get ones border on orange rather than yellow.
In the past I have added sand to the soil mix, but I was always pretty dissatisfied with that approach. I think something with a larger grain size would be better.