Some of them are with me for a while now (around 5 years or so), those are real survivors, at that time I managed to kill every cactus I had due to bad soil mix and incorret watering. Because of that, I gave up on growing them for a while, but I would never lost my passion for them.
By the end of october 2018 I decided to get back to cactus business but with the wrong foot, again... I was using the old sand and peat based soil, and of course they didn't like even a bit. Searching for a new soil for them, I just came across a lot of information of wonderfull materials, but nothing I could get locally, so I asked another brazilian what he was using and I was impressed at how easy it was to find materials to replace what I couldn't find here.
At the end, I'm using a pretty simple and cheap mix made of a type of granite and basalt gravel, crushed charcoal and bricks and a little of organic matter (20% or less) when it's needed. I never got such fast rooting and healthy growing plants before!
enough talking, here are some of them.
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- Mammillaria guelzowiana.jpeg (72.32 KiB) Viewed 2300 times
- This one doubled in size is just two and a half month.
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- A recued plant. forgotten in a dark place in a nursery. tons of new roots coming out of the draining hole and a lot of activity on the top of it. I brought it home in the end of December.
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- One of my first plants, it's with me for 6 years now. It stopped it's growth about 2 years ago. But soon I changed his soil, it's growing pretty fast so far.
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- Mammillaria bocasana.jpeg (91.42 KiB) Viewed 2300 times
- unlabeled Mammillaria at the left corner with it's friends.
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- One month old Melocactus azureus seedlings.
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- My seeds, seedlings and cuttings table. Almost everything here were given to me by a friend I met here.
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Thanks for you attention. Any advice is welcome
