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Hi I have planted several Echinopsis peruviana (Peruvian torch), and Echinopsis Pachanoi (San Pedro) cactus plants. In total I have about 24 plants. I used about 6 seeds per pot.
I read various advice on-line and in the end settled on a quite rough soil mix of one part sand one part perlite and two parts general purpose compost.
I added some liquid plant food to about two liters of water in a misting spray, watered well and then bagged them up.
I also threw together my own window ledge propagator, stuck in a strong light-source on a timer in it and threw in a 300W aquarium heater. (Since I reasoned that this would be ideal for after the germination stage to withstand an early morning misting from an automatic/ultra sonic misting machine I bought off eBay too).
Two weeks later all 24 pots have now germinated. This was quite a surprise, as previously I have never grown anything. I genuinely didn't expect it to work.
My question then is simply what do I do now? I have no experience at all in growing plants, let alone cactus.
They have been bagged for about 4 weeks in total now - and all in all not a lot seems to be happening. (Which is to be expected I suppose). I have no idea if I even got the soil mix right, as most of it was just pure guess work.
Now that they are bagged, how long should I leave them like this and how often should I water them? Also should I feed them each time I water them too? Also should I bag them up again after I water them next? (Bagging them seems to do a fairly good job of retaining the moisture as the humidity inside the bags seems to be reasonably good).
I have attached an image of my setup below.
Of course the difficulty is that I may have to wait a few years to be absolutely certain of what I have, but my main concern is how do I make sure I give my plants the best chance of making it through this initial stage?
As I said I am a total novice at this, so any help or advice would be appreciated.
I read various advice on-line and in the end settled on a quite rough soil mix of one part sand one part perlite and two parts general purpose compost.
I added some liquid plant food to about two liters of water in a misting spray, watered well and then bagged them up.
I also threw together my own window ledge propagator, stuck in a strong light-source on a timer in it and threw in a 300W aquarium heater. (Since I reasoned that this would be ideal for after the germination stage to withstand an early morning misting from an automatic/ultra sonic misting machine I bought off eBay too).
Two weeks later all 24 pots have now germinated. This was quite a surprise, as previously I have never grown anything. I genuinely didn't expect it to work.
My question then is simply what do I do now? I have no experience at all in growing plants, let alone cactus.
They have been bagged for about 4 weeks in total now - and all in all not a lot seems to be happening. (Which is to be expected I suppose). I have no idea if I even got the soil mix right, as most of it was just pure guess work.
Now that they are bagged, how long should I leave them like this and how often should I water them? Also should I feed them each time I water them too? Also should I bag them up again after I water them next? (Bagging them seems to do a fairly good job of retaining the moisture as the humidity inside the bags seems to be reasonably good).
I have attached an image of my setup below.
Of course the difficulty is that I may have to wait a few years to be absolutely certain of what I have, but my main concern is how do I make sure I give my plants the best chance of making it through this initial stage?
As I said I am a total novice at this, so any help or advice would be appreciated.
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