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    A Beginner’s Guide to Cacti: How to Make a Cactus Garden
    A Beginner’s Guide to Cacti: How to Make a Cactus Garden
    A Beginner’s Guide to Cacti: How to Make a Cactus Garden
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    A Beginner’s Guide to Cacti: How to Make a Cactus Garden

    By Dueep Jyot Singh and John Davidson

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    A Beginner’s Guide to Cacti - How to Make a Cactus Garden

    Table of Contents
    Introduction
    Cactus Spines
    Choosing Your Cacti
    Growing Your Cacti
    Preparing Soil for Cactus
    Suitable Soil for Cactus
    Preparing Leaf Mold
    Potting Your Cactus Plant
    Watering Your Cactus
    Watering Methods
    Light spray During Summer
    Cactus Decaying?
    Sunlight
    Hibernation for Cactus
    Protecting Your Cactus in the Winter
    Planting Your Cactus Offsets
    How to grow Cacti from Cuttings
    Cactus as Food
    Diseases and pests
    Appendix
    Cactus clubs
    Author Bio
    Introduction
    For all those people who have confronted a prickly pear, at least once in their lives, cacti are boring spiny plants. Also, cactus plants have long been the subject of a superstition that any house, which has cactus growing in it is going to be filled up with strife and trouble and arguments. That is because of the spines of the cactus which are known as spikes promote ill feeling.
    There is something so odd about a cactus plant that it is often difficult until you grow them yourself to believe that these really belong to the plant kingdom. Historically, how many pioneer explorers of the desert areas in America saw them in the twilight and thought stories of monsters with their arms outstretched, and no heads, who turned into plants in the desert in the morning. No wonder, these giants which can grow up to 63 feet have always been the subject for legends.
    Even today, most of us are told tales about the cactus, which many of us half believe. Some of us have heard that cacti are poisonous. Other people are going to tell us that cacti flower only once in 100 years, and only when the area is subjected to rain. The first tale is totally and true. The second tale is also untrue because certain species of cacti will flower, almost every year, if given proper cultivation and care.
    Cactuses, also known as cacti belong to the family Opuntiaceae. Many of these plant varieties have lost true leaves, but they still have fluted and ribbed stems. The stems store water, and many of the desert varieties have very short growing time periods. Their periods of dormancy may be long, because many times, they have to go without water and rainfall for years, especially when they are growing in the Atacama Desert.
    Cactus originally are natives of the Americas, except for some species, which grow in Africa.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJD-Biz Corp Publishing
    Release dateJul 23, 2014
    ISBN9781311620798
    A Beginner’s Guide to Cacti: How to Make a Cactus Garden

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    A Beginner’s Guide to Cacti - Dueep Jyot Singh

    A Beginner’s Guide to Cacti

    How to Make a Cactus Garden

    Dueep J. Singh and John Davidson

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    The contents have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or any other Government or Health Organization and the contents in this book are not to be used to treat cure or prevent disease.

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