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    Introduction to Succulents & Cacti: Cacti Culture for Newbies
    Introduction to Succulents & Cacti: Cacti Culture for Newbies
    Introduction to Succulents & Cacti: Cacti Culture for Newbies
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    Introduction to Succulents & Cacti: Cacti Culture for Newbies

    By Dueep Jyot Singh

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Introduction to Succulents
    The General Cultivation of Succulents and Cacti
    Temperature
    Air and Light
    Watering
    Soil
    Planting Your Succulents
    Growth from leaves
    Growing Your Plants through Cuttings
    Repotting and replanting
    Growing succulents through offsets
    Saving Your Cacti from Pests and Diseases
    Aphids
    Mealy bugs
    Thrips
    Red spiders
    Conclusion
    Author Bio
    Publisher

    Introduction

    The moment you hear the word “cactus,” you immediately visualize an arid desert, with the poor lonesome cowboy riding away into the sunset on his trusty horse, singing “I am far away from home,” with a buzzard eyeing him greedily, and a cactus somewhere in the background, looming over him. If you have seen this in one spaghetti western, you have seen it in all...
    But cacti and succulents are just not prickly pears, and Opuntias not to be touched by Mowgli, while he is singing along with Baloo unless he wants a Paw full of spines and thorns. All over the world, people have finally woken up to the potential of cactus and succulent plants as indoor as well as outdoor beautifiers of surroundings, especially when they are planning to plant ornamental plants, which have adapted themselves down the centuries to every sort of condition, and they can survive.

    This book is for those people, who have decided to know more about cactuses and succulents. Man is an instinctive collector of things, from orchids to butterflies. Once he found that all over the world, he could get more than 500,000 different varieties of succulents and cacti, he decided to add these plants to his collection repertoire. That is the reason why botanists are so fascinated with the lifestyle of these living objects, so that they can see the different natural development and changes which take place with the passing of time during the growth cycle of these particular plants.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateFeb 1, 2019
    ISBN9780463445112
    Introduction to Succulents & Cacti: Cacti Culture for Newbies

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      Introduction to Succulents & Cacti - Dueep Jyot Singh

      Introduction to Succulents & Cacti

      Cacti Culture for Newbies

      Dueep Jyot Singh

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Introduction to Succulents

      The General Cultivation of Succulents and Cacti

      Temperature

      Air and Light

      Watering

      Soil

      Planting Your Succulents

      Growth from leaves

      Growing Your Plants through Cuttings

      Repotting and replanting

      Growing succulents through offsets

      Saving Your Cacti from Pests and Diseases

      Aphids

      Mealy bugs

      Thrips

      Red spiders

      Conclusion

      Author Bio

      Publisher

      Introduction

      The moment you hear the word cactus, you immediately visualize an arid desert, with the poor lonesome cowboy riding away into the sunset on his trusty horse, singing I am far away from home, with a buzzard eyeing him greedily, and a cactus somewhere in the background, looming over him. If you have seen this in one spaghetti western, you have seen it in all…

      But cacti and succulents are just not prickly pears, and Opuntias not to be touched by Mowgli, while he is singing along with Baloo unless he wants a Paw full of spines and thorns. All over the world, people have finally woken up to the potential of cactus and succulent plants as indoor as well as outdoor beautifiers of surroundings, especially when they are planning to plant ornamental plants, which have adapted themselves down the centuries to every sort of condition, and they can survive.

      This book is for those people, who have decided to know more about cactuses and succulents. Man is an instinctive collector of things, from orchids to butterflies. Once he found that all over the world, he could get more than 500,000 different varieties of succulents and cacti, he decided to add these plants to his collection repertoire. That is the reason why botanists are so fascinated with the lifestyle of these living objects, so that they can see the different natural development and changes which take place with the passing of time during the growth cycle of these particular plants.

      You may find me recounting some experiences and tall tales, based on succulents and cacti and other plant and human specimens, which I encountered during a peripatetic youth, but consider that to be lighthearted persiflage to give some color and verisimilitude to an otherwise serious book. But as they say, truth is ever so amusing than fiction; consider all the tall tales to be true without exaggeration.

      A number of different cacti plants can be an excellent and very beautiful addition to your miniature indoor tray garden on a tabletop.

      When I asked a friend of mine why she did not have any beautiful cacti in her garden, or any other succulents, she really did not know what succulents were. I said, well, those are those plants, which you plant, water once in a month, and they are best for people like you who keep going off on unofficial tours and do not want to bother about the care and watering of the plants they left behind, when they were leaving on a jet plane.

      Her immediate reaction was – I like flowering plants. I do not like boring cacti. I blinked. She was under the

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