How to pull cuttings

Propagate columnar cactus: cut cuttings or sow seeds

Columnar cacti usually do not bloom in indoor culture. You must therefore buy seeds from specialist retailers. In any case, it is easier and faster to pull cuttings from cuttings from existing plants cut.

How to sow columnar cacti

The seeds are sown thinly in prepared bowls in early spring and are not covered. The surface must be kept slightly damp.

Set up the growing containers in a bright and warm location at 20 to 28 degrees. Cover the vessels with a plastic wrap to prevent them from drying out.

As soon as the seedlings have emerged, they are pricked out and later transferred to individual pots.

Cut cuttings and let them dry

• Cut cuttings
• Let the interfaces dry
• Growing pots(€ 9.70 at Amazon *) prepare
• Insert cuttings
• stabilize with chopsticks
• set up bright and warm
• Pour only from the side or from below

Cut the cuttings for propagation in spring or summer. Use a sharp, clean knife and make the cut straight through in a thinner area.

Place the cuttings upright in an empty glass that you have covered with cotton wool at the bottom. It can take up to two months for the ends of the cut to be sufficiently dry.

Prepare pots with well drained substrate. Coconut soil or is well suited Cactus soilthat you are additionally using Quartz sand(€ 14.90 at Amazon *) Mix.

Be careful when pouring

Insert the cereus cactus cuttings only slightly at the top of the substrate. Carefully tie the cuttings to wooden sticks so that the columnar cactus is completely straight.

to water Do not take the cuttings immediately after inserting them. After a week, moisten the substrate only at the edge of the pot so that the cutting does not get wet. Alternatively, you can also fill the coaster with some water. It is absorbed by the substrate.