Cactus_winter

Most cacti need to be cool or even cold winter. It provides the plants a rest period. And the significance of the rest period for special cactus. In a period of rest stops the growth of cactus and from that time he matures old growth. In addition, it is in a rest period laid for future flower buds. |

The minimum temperature for several different species varies, mostly cacti contain the winter when the temperature 5-15 ° C. For translation of cacti for a period of rest, with the autumn begin to gradually reduce watering. The temperature is also gradually declining. If you reduce the watering, and temperatures will remain high, the plant will continue to evaporate moisture, but do not receive fluid replacement, therefore reducing irrigation and temperature decrease should occur simultaneously. Reduce lighting in the winter is to plant a natural, if at the same time reduce watering and temperature.

To ensure cacti cool winters enough to arrange a fence from a sheet of glass on the edge of the sill, so that the heat from the batteries did not concern them. Thermometer to ensure an enabling hibernation is necessary. Control the temperature during the winter would have required. Even if insulated and seal the frame for the winter, if the street gets cold down to -30 ° C and below, the temperature on the windowsill, too, may fall too low. If the window sill 6 ° C, and for your cacti winter minimum of 5 ° C, it is best not to risk it and take action. With the onset of severe frosts, you can frame further warmed by putting a blanket along the window sill, or by placing pots of cactus on a piece of foam or thick foam, but to remove the protective glass from the window sill to be as long as they do not disable heating.

To control the temperature of the thermometer needs, and to control irrigation is better to start a calendar, since winter watering is rare, it is easy to forget how many do you have watered the plant. Easier to hang up somewhere in a conspicuous place on the calendar and its days of watering. It may be noted the days of watering on the calendar for the entire year.