Hellow all my gardeners fellow in the world. I am back again to share about the beautifull Spineless Cactus Astrophytum that flaws but make it more beautifull. For the analogy, Double head at cactus like that is more like the conjoined twins in human. But the different in here, The cactus can still growing up healthy but human cannot do that right. Recently i am buying some of Double Head Astrophytum Asterias. i want to adding new collection to my Astrophytum Asterias to keep in my mini cactus garden.
I am buying around 14 double head Astrophytum plants at small size maybe around 2 cm diameter of the body and this plants is still baby. As i said before in my plant content, Astrophytum is super easy to take care but very tricky. Some of them can super easily to infected by mold,insect,or virus too. To anticipate that kind of problem, it is need to using good Planting media. Some kind rocks that need to mix with soil.
This is Pumice Stone for your information, i dont know in your country is easy to get or not but in my country i am the seller of this stone, Usually i am using the size around 3-5 mm pumice stone as a main basic material to combine with soil and compost, but this time i am using size 1-3 mm due to plant the baby, the smaller the size it will suit with the root of the plant. And how to mix the soil is more likely 60% pumice,20% soil,10% compost the rest is cocopeat,insceticid powder,mineral stone,etc. Maybe in the next content i will sharing my Plant Media soil that i am used.
Like as i said in my content before about AStrophytum Asterias. Double headed Astrophytum have so many varietas too. it can be as Nudum Varietas or Starshape Varietas or Superkabuto varietas. Because i am buying from baby i am not too sure about the varietas because i dont know what will they become after growing big. but for Nudum Varietas it can look by the body with no dots at all like the picture bellow.
Nudum Varietas does not have so many dots it tend to be plain. From the baby it like starshaping. but i dont know if it growing can still be starshape form or not. So my assumption is just Astrophytum Asterias Nudum double headed. The varietas make the price higher thats why we need what varietas that cactus we have. If we sell it at least it will give the best price right.
One of the reason that make influence to the price is how much ribs the cactus got. like this cactus it have just 5 ribs that seems rare to get. but,likely the twins did not have 5 ribs so it will not compacted.
After looking all the plant still need to plant it right. First of all we need to choose the pot planter that nearly fit the cactus not too big or not to small,If we plant in big pot planter it will make the soil hard to dry because the root is still tiny and not using so much water and nutrition and it will give bad effect like inviting the mites or fungi that will make the root rot. So, choose the right pot planter is important
Remember that cactus love to dry soil so choose the pot planter that have drainage well like this one
With the good drainage will get the soil got more air circulation so it will prevent fungi and mold infecting the soil. With good air circulation it will make the root healthier.
After preparing the Pot planter then fill the pot with mixed soil like this picture
After the pot planter filled with the mixed soil then plant the Astrophytum with pinset and make sure that the root all inside the mixed soil.thats why i am telling you that the size of the pumice will matters. if the pumice stone size bigger that will harm the root that smaller than the pumice stone and it will have a higher chance that the root not growing well.
After done plant it time to adding some cosmetic sand or some topping. that will make the plant neat and kinda beautifull in the picture.
Pretty neat right after adding some topping? In this case i am using akadama soil as my topping.
After all planted. It is nice to watering after one or two days after planted. And place it in a place that get the morning sunshine and not to hot in noon for around 2-4 weeks. After they can adapt with the climate and temperature around then place it in full sun once or twice in a week. So it will stimulate the root to grow faster. For the reguler watering just water once or twice in a week. If in your country same as mine that have intense rainfall dont give water anymore until the mixed soil completly dry. if they are got wet everyday it will make the root not growing at all and will be rot.
At the end of the content dont forget to keep adding plant to your house and be happy.
Sorry if my content not good and my language is not good at all i am just share my hobby in here.
