Planting Rooted Opuntia Cactus Pads

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It's been 6 weeks since I started rooting the Opuntia Santa Rita pads. Now it is time to move them to their own pots.
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@Cactimania 20 күн бұрын

They rooted up well, Ana 😊 Thank you for sharing with us as always. Have a wonderful day from Edith & myself 🌵☀️🌼🌺🌸🏜☕

@CactusCaffeine 20 күн бұрын

Thanks Daz! Have a great week. ☺️

@morrisparkintheozarks6831 23 күн бұрын

They made roots fast!!! I believe the opuntia aurea you sent has rooted. It's growing new shoots at the top. I would say the others probably are too! Great thing about opuntia is they are easy!! The mulch looks great!! I imagine it will work well in your climate!! Your " no love soil looks like it will fit the bill!!! Great choice for them!!! Thanks for sharing !!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, out to Las Vegas, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌻🌷🌴💐🌱🍀🌿🌸🌳🪴🌹🌾😃👍

@user-og4gq5hu3y 14 күн бұрын

Now I know how you made the soil mix. Thanks

@ZiggySearchfieldCactus 23 күн бұрын

Good root system Ana 🙂 Love a good Opuntia 😎😎🌵🌵

@CactusCaffeine 22 күн бұрын

I wasn’t expecting it to root that quick. 😉

@DFJA01 23 күн бұрын

Wow, amazing how big the roots have become in such a short time. Which reminds me, I need to repot my O. Santa Rita seedlings and get them used to full sun, I might try wood mulch too. 💚🌵😀

@HolidayGlow 23 күн бұрын

Gosh that is a LOT of roots for such a short time!

@nancylee1883 23 күн бұрын

Wow, that was a workout! I can't even imagine the heat you are having. Your lows are higher than our highs. And, we have crazy high humidity-it was 91% at 6am today. Which is why cacti don't do very well for me. They survive but don't thrive. I would love to get one to flower!

@Verhoh 13 күн бұрын

Hi Ana, thank you for this educational vid again. I live in the Netherlands and I created a winter hardy garden myslef which is very uncommon in our cimate. Therefor I DO use white pebbles around my cactee. first they drain the rain faster in the ground and second , as our climate is not that hot most of the year the plants can use this extra warming when the sun is shining. In your climate the wooden mulch will work great I think and...it looks so nice aswell. Thank you Ana for sharing. Kind regards, Hans.

@CactusCaffeine 12 күн бұрын

@@Verhoh thanks so much for sharing your experience. It’s good to know what works in a climate that is different from mine. I am learning. ☺️👍🏼

@earthplants 14 күн бұрын

Rally Nice video

@jorgecanales798 19 күн бұрын

I live in Texas, I’ve used plain old potting soil on them and they are fine. People think that because Opuntia grow slow they can be crowded, but after 3 years of having cacti I can tell you they LOVE big spaces. They have both a deep and wide root system. I used to make “mixed cactus planters” with 3+ pads and omg they were root bound after a year

@solarwinds- 17 күн бұрын

Yeah, Opuntias are like weeds here in Texas!

@CactusCaffeine 12 күн бұрын

@@jorgecanales798 thanks for sharing your experience with Opuntias. It validates my decision to plant one pad per pot. ☺️ My other Opuntias also grow well (even with neglect) here. I know these Santa Rita can grow massive so hopefully I can contain their size in a pot.

@markdale278 24 күн бұрын

I love the Rita's

@cactusjoe 22 күн бұрын

Hi Ana, really interesting video, thanks for sharing, and nice to see how fast and well those Opuntia pads have rooted. Also interesting to see how you are using mulch for your cacti, I suppose that is possible because of your very hot and dry desert climate in Las Vegas...because if I used mulch in my temperate, European climate, it would be the end of my Opuntia plants after only a short while, haha, ....due to risk of rot and all the fungal infections that develop from the organic mulch material in humid climates! Always fascinating to see how adapting and creative the cultivation of cacti in different climates needs to be ... (cactus) horses for (cactus) courses, haha! Have a great weekend ahead!

@CactusCaffeine 20 күн бұрын

Thanks for your inputs. Yes, I think my climate might make the mulch work. Someone said mulch disintegrate in about three months. I have mulch over my roses and for 5 years now, the mulch are still solid. But then I have to see how they will affect my soil moisture for cactus in the long run. Wish me luck!

@GardenDiscovery 24 күн бұрын

I love the purple tinge on these. So pretty.

@pollytiks3885 24 күн бұрын

💜 the purple pads! I haven’t ever used mulch in my cactus containers so it will be interesting to see how yours works out. My experience has been that the pads grow pretty fast - I had to give mine to my friend to plant in her yard because it outgrew my containers. And I thought it was hot here at 116 🥵!

@phillipcase3860 23 күн бұрын

Like I mentioned before, I'm White Mountain Apache, but our moccasins look way different than other tribe's moccasins. Our moccs have a toe guard, it's a circle on the tips of our toes, and it actually represents an opuntia pad. There's a story and many songs/prayers about how that toe guard started, the supernatural being who started it all. Come winter time I'll share it with you, we can only tell stories in the winter 😊

@rohermiagequillo4008 23 күн бұрын

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@michellechapman8738 24 күн бұрын

I found a cluster of opuntia in a flower bed under a tree near a shopping plaza...so i got a cutting from it. It wasnt being maintained...mostly abandoned. I hope it grows big!!

@CactusCaffeine 12 күн бұрын

@@michellechapman8738 good luck!

@manzoorhussain8922 24 күн бұрын

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@zonaken 24 күн бұрын

"Optunias can thrive in crappy soil" You nailed that one alright!!! LOL Mine grew for decades in engineered compacted fill dirt that my home was built on, which I've discovered over the years the builder composed out of rock hard caliche, framing nails, leftover pieces of drywall edging, scrap 2x4's, beer bottle caps (those may have been from me...) and occasional asphalt pavement waste! Every time I dig a new hole to plant something, it seems I discover a new time capsule of junk they threw into the fill material! But, prickly pear thrived there anyway. Thanks, I got a kick out of that! Zk P.S. For my cactus down here in Tucson, I've only used rock mulch or nothing at all around my cactus that are in the ground. The sides of potted plants here get heated up pretty good by the sun that shines on them, and I think that is the greater heat issue for me rather than the surface temps. Columnar cactus I have in pots, are markedly thinner, maybe more stressed plants, in pots when compared with the identical cuttings in the ground. But they still bloom pretty good either way!

@CactusCaffeine 12 күн бұрын

@@zonaken your soil is literally full of crap! 😜 But to the opuntias, it’s good enough for them thrive! Thanks for the tip on the mulch! I am learning.

@zonaken 12 күн бұрын

@@CactusCaffeine You are the master; I am but a grasshopper... Zk

@sevda-ferrykeskin4071 23 күн бұрын

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@Brother_Nature. 23 күн бұрын

Hi Ana I’ve used mulch in the past yes it is cheaper but it rots with in 3-4 months and it does attract insects just an fyi. Rocks or fire glass is best for me good luck

@CactusCaffeine 22 күн бұрын

Oh, thank you for sharing your experience!👍🏼

@brocktoon8 23 күн бұрын

The mulch doesn't keep it too moist? I am surprised!

@CactusCaffeine 22 күн бұрын

I still don’t know. I will find out but fingers crossed. I have mulch on my roses but the soil still dries pretty fast during the summer.

@solarwinds- 17 күн бұрын

Hi Ana, how hot is too hot to fertilize my Echinopsis Rainbow Burst? I want to avoid skinny growth.

@brocktoon8 23 күн бұрын

Why do you usually don't like using perlite? Curious . .

@CactusCaffeine 22 күн бұрын

Perlite is very light and floats to the top when I water my plants. It’s messy. Plus it is not safe to breathe in the dust from perlite when it is very dry.

@brocktoon8 22 күн бұрын

@@CactusCaffeine That's true, I hate that about it. My problem is that my plants are getting so big and they are all in pots and I must keep moving them all around depending on the weather (we've bee getting insane amounts of rain this year), so I use it because of how lightweight it is. But I do hate that dust and I hate how it turns dirty-brown and floats to the surface, lol.