what is the best way to get your cactii to flower?

Answer 1

First of all: I don't think it's gonna work if you wet the stems with sour milk... that is just nasty.

To have healthy and beutiful cactii you need to start with the soil. Cactii and succulent like a sandy soil with good drainage. You should be able to find special soil for cactii and succulent at your local nursery, and while you're there, you should be able to find a fertilizer, specially designed for cactii and succulents, follow manufacturer's directions, always remember to use less than the amount recomended by manufacturer, to avoid burning your plants due to accidental overdose. Use containers like terracotta or ceramic with a nice hole on the bottom for drainage, (notice the emphasis on drainage). Pick a spot where they get lots of direct sun light from the early spring all the way to the first weeks of fall. Remember to water once/week during the summer and once/month during the winter. When you water your cactii during the flowering season, make sure you water early in the morning, before the buds open. If you wet the inside of the flower, you will ruin it. If you overwater, specially during the cooler season, you will kill your cactii. If the winter is harsh in your area, move the containers indoors until last frost. I really love cactii, and find them very easy to take care of. Remember, they will bloom from the last weeks of the spring until mid-summer. They will bloom during the daytime, and the buds will close about a couple of hours before sunset, and the life of the flower usually is no more than a couple of days. So, if you're at work all day, you will never see your cactii blooming. Once, I came home at lunch time and was amazed by all the flowers I was able to see. Good luck!

P.S. Keep an eye on those slugs and snails, they will eat a whole cactus the size of a peach from inside out in a couple of days, leaving only the peels and thornes. They have snail and slug killer pellets at the local nursery. Also keep an eye on a bug that looks like a tiny white rolly-polly. They will gather and form little colonies in between the folds and hard to reach nooks and crannies... use a cotton swab wet in soapy water or alcohor to rub the bugs away.

Answer 2

This could be possibly a hibiscus flower as they are huge & cup shaped. If it is trumpet shaped, it could also be a Datura. These are very toxic. So you really might want to rule out that you're not growing a Datura Angel Trumpet. If the flower is spike shaped it could also be a Yucca plant. If perhaps you gave an approximate locale breakdown of where you are, just general, such as Arizona, northern Canada, it would help us all. It could be an Icelandic White poppy, after several years these can become huge. Can you edit your question as to the flowers shape, what type of petals, how the petals are formed, rosette type or saw toothed & let's say give a #, say 8 forming a cup shaped flower.

Answer 3

For these plants to flower you need to put them in the sun during the day. But they must be in darkness at night as this is how they distinguish the seasons and hence know when to flower

Answer 4

Wet the stem with sour milk. This would attract insects like flies, ants, etc. It is not the sourness of the milk that will make the cacti bloom. Insects feeding on the sour milk will leave droppings that will stimulate the cacti to flower.

Answer 5

I have found that they like the daylight but not direct sun. Place them in a well bright area in the room and not too much water.

Answer 6

just let it do it s thing and grow