How to plant the seeds of cactus fruit

Native to Mexico, the United States, the West Indies, Bermuda, and northern South America, cacti are commonly cultivated as fences, with medicinal stems and sweet, edible berries. So how do you plant cactus seeds?

How do I plant seeds of cactus fruit?

1. selecting basin and soil

First of all, choose a suitable flowerpot, not too large, generally as long as it is slightly larger than the plant shape, the second pot bottom can be placed some small tiles to facilitate drainage. Cactus likes to drain well in slightly alkaline fertile sandy soil. The culture soil of family cultivation cactus can be prepared by mixing 2 parts compost, 4 parts garden soil and 4 parts river sand.

2. planting

There are many varieties of cacti, including varieties that can bear fruit. We must pay attention to the seeds of cacti when selecting seeds. Sprinkle the cleaned seeds in the flowerpot, cover it with a layer of soil, about 0.3-0.5cm thick, pour water once, put it in the shade, spray water every 3-5 days, keep it moist.

3. fertilizer and water management

Growth process should be timely topdressing, mainly farm manure, appropriate addition of phosphorus. When the fairy fruit into the fruit expansion period to a certain amount of water, soil moisture content in the soil can let the hand pinch into a ball can not be scattered.

II. The Role of Cactus

1. medicinal

Cactus taste light, cold nature with circulation of qi and blood circulation, clearing away heat and toxic materials, swelling pain, spleen diarrhea, tranquilizing diuretic effect, oral and external treatment of a variety of diseases. Cactus is mainly used to treat furuncle swelling poison, but also can treat stomachache, abdominal pain, acute dysentery, intestinal hemorrhoids diarrhea, asthma and other diseases.

2. edible

Cactus berries are sweet and sour to eat. Cactus fruit fragrance sweet, fresh and juicy, generally fresh food-based; Mexico and other places are also processed into canned fruit or alcoholic beverages, can also add honey, fresh milk ice into juice, and do ice cream flavor better.

3. forage

The fleshy stem of Opuntia contains a large number of comprehensive nutrients and trace elements, and its content is much higher than other crops. As a result, many arid areas of Mexico are planted in patches of forage cacti as the sole source of livestock feed. Cactus and other feed to feed cattle, sheep, pigs and other livestock, the whole year can not be fed with additional water, feeding effect is very good.

Family planting cactus, multi-use asexual reproduction, namely, sub-plant method, cuttage method and grafting method.