How Often Do Cactus Plants need to be watered?

Resolver · 12-05-2005, 02:10 PM

I picked up a few baby Cacti on the weekend and was wondering how often they need to be watered. Does anybody out there know?

Res

MissBlu · 12-05-2005, 02:10 PM

Rarely.

daddyiwantchocolate · 12-05-2005, 02:10 PM

What kind is it and what is it planted in?

Aleks · 12-05-2005, 02:11 PM

don't water them often at all. definately don't apply h2o if the soil is wet. let them dry out for a couple of weeks, if not a month.

Resolver · 12-05-2005, 02:13 PM

Im not too sure what kind the cacti are DIWC but they're just babies. I picked them up at IKEA in a package of 3.

Aleks · 12-05-2005, 02:14 PM

oh, those bastards...

they are in sooper smal pots. i'd transplant them into bigger pots to see better results...

Resolver · 12-05-2005, 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by Aleks
don't water them often at all. definately don't apply h2o if the soil is wet. let them dry out for a couple of weeks, if not a month.

So once every 2-4 weeks?

That's great, thanks Aleks!

MissBlu · 12-05-2005, 02:15 PM

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Originally posted by Resolver
So once every 2-4 weeks?

Go more for the four week mark...
They should be dry, dry, dry...

Aleks · 12-05-2005, 02:16 PM

less... i'd say once a month.

smokeyeyes · 12-05-2005, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by Aleks
oh, those bastards...

they are in sooper smal pots. i'd transplant them into bigger pots to see better results...

yes.

cacti typically have very extensive root systems in order to draw water from a wide area, given than in their natural climate and state, there isn't much of it.

planting them in bigger pots, and still minimally watering them, seems to favour their growth.

at least, that's what i've found in my personal experience with them

Resolver · 12-05-2005, 02:17 PM

What about direct sunlight as compared to the shade. What's healthier for these suckers?

MissBlu · 12-05-2005, 02:18 PM

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Originally posted by Resolver
What about direct sunlight as compared to the shade. What's healthier for these suckers?

SUN

Hi i'm God · 12-05-2005, 02:18 PM

If they start pulsing theres tarantulas inside making babies, it happend to an aunt of a friend of mine.

scruffy1 · 12-05-2005, 02:20 PM

every 1-2 weeks in the growing season (summer) and every 2-4 weeks in the winter.

there's my 2 pennies

quantumize · 12-05-2005, 02:22 PM

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Originally posted by Hi i'm God
If they start pulsing theres tarantulas inside making babies, it happend to an aunt of a friend of mine.

thats frikkin awsome

thats why i wouldnt get the ikea cacti..i'd go to a garden centre and get em proper

mingster · 12-05-2005, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Resolver
What about direct sunlight as compared to the shade. What's healthier for these suckers?

are they prickly? if so, you should keep them in the fridge.

daddyiwantchocolate · 12-05-2005, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by smokeyeyes
planting them in bigger pots, and still minimally watering them, seems to favour their growth.

Agree on this...

I'd water them rarely (once a month) but it totally depends on how big the pot is and how much root structure they have, as isa said....

Gunark · 12-05-2005, 02:57 PM

i need to take a picture of my monster cactus.... about 2 years ago i took it outside, it got too much sunlight, the top turned orange, blah blah. I thought it was done for. But I brought it inside just to be sure. Lo and behold the top fell off and the bottom survived. Then it started growing ungainly tentacles. Two of them now extend about 2 feet out from their pot... they keep growing little roots out of their sides (there's a name for these, but i forget)...

it's the most gawky, ungraceful thing i've ever seen... but i can't bring myself to put it out of its misery... and it just keeps growing. After a watering, i've seen it do like an inch of growth in 2 or 3 days :|

Cri · 12-05-2005, 05:15 PM

wow...cacti are so low maintenance and sarah and I managed to not keep one alive in university! how terrible is that!! hah

SneakyPete · 12-05-2005, 05:18 PM

What does a dead cactus look like?

bitchass · 12-05-2005, 05:23 PM

I had one awhile back and loved that whenever it was watered, it would grow noticeably. So I watered it every second day until it was bigger than the pot and actually hanging over the edge of it - until I moved the pot and it popped and spewed slimey rotten smelling goo all over my table.

Babes · 12-05-2005, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Resolver
I picked up a few baby Cacti on the weekend and was wondering how often they need to be watered. Does anybody out there know?

Res

Geez! You don't even listen to me, do you? I guess I studied horticulture for nothing.

Resolver · 12-05-2005, 07:22 PM

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Originally posted by SneakyPete
What does a dead cactus look like?

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Apparently it looks something like this:

Resolver · 12-05-2005, 07:23 PM

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Originally posted by Babes
Geez! You don't even listen to me, do you? I guess I studied horticulture for nothing.

hah! I listened and you said to me not too often my dear!

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12-05-2005, 02:10 PM	#2
MissBlu TRIBE Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Woodlands Posts: 15,682	Rarely.

12-05-2005, 02:10 PM	#3
daddyiwantchocolate TRIBE Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: ♥'s ๏̯͡๏﴿ Posts: 40,616	What kind is it and what is it planted in?

12-05-2005, 02:11 PM	#4
Aleks TRIBE Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: High Park 76'ers Posts: 5,102	don't water them often at all. definately don't apply h2o if the soil is wet. let them dry out for a couple of weeks, if not a month.

12-05-2005, 02:13 PM	#5
Resolver TRIBE Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: World spinnin' round 2 the Next ReVoLutioN Posts: 7,034	Im not too sure what kind the cacti are DIWC but they're just babies. I picked them up at IKEA in a package of 3.

12-05-2005, 02:14 PM	#6
Aleks TRIBE Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: High Park 76'ers Posts: 5,102	oh, those bastards... they are in sooper smal pots. i'd transplant them into bigger pots to see better results...

12-05-2005, 02:16 PM	#9
Aleks TRIBE Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: High Park 76'ers Posts: 5,102	less... i'd say once a month.

12-05-2005, 02:17 PM	#11
Resolver TRIBE Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: World spinnin' round 2 the Next ReVoLutioN Posts: 7,034	What about direct sunlight as compared to the shade. What's healthier for these suckers?

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Hi i'm God TRIBE Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Brockway, Audbinville, and North Haverbrooke! Posts: 13,635	If they start pulsing theres tarantulas inside making babies, it happend to an aunt of a friend of mine.

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scruffy1 TRIBE Member Join Date: May 2000 Location: in an infinite square well Posts: 3,050	every 1-2 weeks in the growing season (summer) and every 2-4 weeks in the winter. there's my 2 pennies

12-05-2005, 02:57 PM	#18
Gunark Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: booyakastan Posts: 6,696	i need to take a picture of my monster cactus.... about 2 years ago i took it outside, it got too much sunlight, the top turned orange, blah blah. I thought it was done for. But I brought it inside just to be sure. Lo and behold the top fell off and the bottom survived. Then it started growing ungainly tentacles. Two of them now extend about 2 feet out from their pot... they keep growing little roots out of their sides (there's a name for these, but i forget)... it's the most gawky, ungraceful thing i've ever seen... but i can't bring myself to put it out of its misery... and it just keeps growing. After a watering, i've seen it do like an inch of growth in 2 or 3 days :\|

12-05-2005, 05:15 PM	#19
Cri TRIBE Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Snowbunny Posts: 6,923	wow...cacti are so low maintenance and sarah and I managed to not keep one alive in university! how terrible is that!! hah

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SneakyPete TRIBE Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: I don't like my location. Posts: 33,742	What does a dead cactus look like?

12-05-2005, 05:23 PM	#21
bitchass TRIBE Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: I am gelling Posts: 4,700	I had one awhile back and loved that whenever it was watered, it would grow noticeably. So I watered it every second day until it was bigger than the pot and actually hanging over the edge of it - until I moved the pot and it popped and spewed slimey rotten smelling goo all over my table.