Repotting my Cuddly Cactus 'Cereus Jamacaru' | How To Repot a Cuddly Cactus

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[@desertplantsofavalon]

How To Repot a Cuddly Cactus, Repotting my Cuddly Cactus :-D

[@CockatooG2]

Everybody needs a cuddly cactus, love the shape. So many cool Cereus varieties. Great repot, always amazing to see the different media that plants from growers are potted in. Once got an orchid that the pot was potted in another pot. Thanks for sharing 🌵💚 love to you and Hans 🤗

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haha so happy you love the cuddly cactus too Pam :-D its wonderful that it doesn't have any spines and is a wonderful shape, wow with your Orchid being potted in another pot, it will be interesting to see how this cactus grows from the coco coir into the new soil, thanks so much Pam for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and FEATERBABY Turkey lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to California for a wonderful Wednesday ahead XXXX

[@jillianleblanc9370]

Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing cactus lovely collection

[@desertplantsofavalon]

thanks so much Jillian for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@falzonp1]

That's a wonderful cactus Lyn! A Cuddly Cactus...so nice to the touch! Nicely repotted! Thanks for the information about the coco coir and the new potting mix! Have a wonderful evening my friends Lyn and Hans! Lots of love and happiness to you both!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you love this cuddly cactus Sylvia :-D and its one of the none 'biters' haha :-D it was a dilemma knowing what to do when repotting this cactus as the coco coir was so stuck to the roots, thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX

[@flowerszoneforever]

A beautiful and healthy cactus Lyn! Well done as always with repoting! And your Cactus Collection looks amazing! Greetings from Elda!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you love the cactus Elda :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Albania for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@Cactimania]

Looks good in its new home, Lyn. As you know I do like to remove all the old mix any new plant is in, I don’t think I could have left all the coir on it lol. But it’s good we all have different methods etc, and I’ll be interested to see how the roots grow out into the new mix. Thank you for sharing with us as always, Lyn. Have a wonderful evening from Edith & myself to you and Hans ❤️🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜

[@MissysPinkCactus]

I’ve done both ways with the roots and if you don’t separate the roots the roots just continue on in the new soil.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Daz :-D I really hope that the roots will grow out into the new soil, I hate to leave the coco coir on the roots and it was a dilemma deciding to try to remove the coir and lose a lot of the roots or pot up and see how it gets on haha, fingers crossed it will be ok and I will make an update in the future how this cactus gets on, thanks so much Daz for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX

[@Artsymeholly85]

Thank you for this video! Just got a cuddley cactus yesterday and need to repot it this weekend.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thats fantastic you have got a Cuddly Cactus too :-D I love these wonderful cacti, thanks so much Holly for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX

[@tedvandermale2597]

Great video. Interesting to see so much root development in pure choir. Lovely plant.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you loved the repotting of the cuddly cactus Ted :-D and its incredible to see how much this cactus has grown since this video haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@maureenswallow3054]

Morning Lyn,and THANKS for a repot vid on this lovely looking Cactus. Both getting and gathering information from friends And experience is always important, as we need to make a good On site assessment when looking after our lovely plants. In this situation the plant looked both happy and healthy in The substrate it was in. getting good light and the right amount water and food Is a constant observation and dedication. I think overall I would have done the same as you,remove All the lose substrate but leave the substrate that was holding And binding the fibrous roots. Well done and thanks again to you both in the emerald isle And have a great day,Bill.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Good morning Bill :-D thanks so much, it was a dilemma knowing what to do when repotting this cactus, and it will be interesting to see how this cactus gets on in the coming weeks and I will film an update video on it, thanks so much Bill for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you and lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER Maureen to Essex for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX

[@dhyanidsouza2430]

Thank you Lyn!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Dhyani for watching and for your wonderful support XXXX

[@blakewilding8699]

Good day! I’m so happy I just got one of these today :) I would love to see an update on yours soon. Enjoy your week ☀️

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thats fantastic you have got one of these awesome Cuddly cactus Cereus jamacaru's, I really love them , and I will definitely film an update in the next few days on how mine is growing today, its grown a lot already, thanks so much Blake for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic new week XXXX

[@andersnrregren9087]

My wanted/wish list is growing every video you make ;-)

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haha Anders its just too tempting :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@kaktus_cactus]

Cuddly looking indeed🙂

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Its a cutie haha :-D thanks so much Magda for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@CactusCove]

That cactus looks like strong roots, I'm sure it will break through the coir into your gritty mix in no time 😄 I too like to remove as much soil as possible during repotting from store bought plants etc, but I think I would have left all the coir too, because way too much roots would come away, it could have exhausted it. Great job and sometimes each cactus needs approaching differently sometimes even if it goes against what we usually do - its really such a nice looking cactus and this way it won't get too much transplant shock... and wow to see another flower bud on your other cactus too 🥳🌵🌞😀

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Claire :-D it was such a dilemma knowing what to do with this cactus with repotting, I always love to remove the soil from shop bought cacti, but this looked too tough to attempt haha, its so wonderful that the other Cereus jamacaru is re budding again, I think the heatwave has really given them a boost, thanks so much Claire for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@QuailCanyonAnthropolgy]

Cuddly, indeed!!! Love em! 😆 Coco coir is very great, mix it with 10% natural top soil (for molybdenum), 25% pearlite, 10% sand, and then dress it with a base micro and macro, like Ironite lawn fertalizer. This keeps them healthy for years at a time! Thank you for another great video!!! Many blessings and much Plant power!!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Mark :-D I will have to experiment more with coco coir as many cacti growers say how good it is as a soil additive, so happy you love the Cuddly cactus too haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@emmitstewart1921]

Looking at the video, I could tell that this is not the coir that is commonly sold as a soil additive. This is the fiber from the husk. This stuff is usually sold for making into doormats and brushes. The fibers have become intertwined with the roots so well that removing the fibers will damage the roots. You are right about using coir in potting mixes. I use it in all my plants. I don't have a good source of topsoil (In UK, they call it loam, in the US, we call it topsoil.), so I add in worm castings, and a little gypsum and greensand. It is expensive, but I find pumice is better than perlite. I screen my sand to remove any particles smaller than 1/32 inch, as these tiny particles do not contribute to drainage. Coir works better for desert plants whose best culture has the soil dry out thoroughly. When peat dries out, it becomes waterproof. Coir absorbs water, no matter how dry it is, even when compressed into bricks.

[@QuailCanyonAnthropolgy]

@@emmitstewart1921 My top soil grows wild cacti well, and is already loaded with calcitic lyme, so gypsum is the only thing I don't use here. Peat is only good for tomatoes and flowers, and requieres too much lyme buffering to bring it up to par even for these... Great info. and thank you for the reply.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

@@emmitstewart1921 Thanks so much for your wonderful info Emmit :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXXX

[@emmitstewart1921]

@@QuailCanyonAnthropolgy Your topsoil is what I am trying to approximate when I add gypsum to my potting mix. So many cacti grow on calcium rich soils like yours. That is why tomato food works so well for cacti. It supplies the calcium that so many potting mixes do not.

[@MissysPinkCactus]

As an experiment I kept two cacti in the peat moss they were already in from the store and they’re doing absolutely fine. Actually they’re thriving. The peat moss dries out quickly because it’s so fluffy and light. It drains quickly. I fertilize with a nice tomato fertilizer and they are lovely peanut cacti.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thats fantastic that your Peanut cacti in the peat moss are growing well, its always a dilemma when repotting cacti that are in a different soil mix to the one we usually use, its so good to experiment and try out what works, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@jeterpakab5133]

I think peat moss is actually much better than some commonly available cactus mixes

[@newbotany]

The plant looks like a cutting but it has a fantastic root system!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

The root system is amazing on this cactus, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@kpepperl319]

I got lucky when i bought one recently that is in soil and in a bigger pot so i didn't have to do anything to it... I love it so much. When it needs water, i can feel the catcus a little soft amd quickly plumb back up when i gave it water

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thats fantastic you have got one of these wonderful cacti too, I really love them, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic new week XXXX

[@ZiggySearchfieldCactus]

Nice one Lyn 🙂 Just looked it up, says in times of drought you can cut off limbs to feed to your cows 😁 I'll bear that in mind 😄😄

[@emmitstewart1921]

I never heard that one, but when I was about seven years old, I read a book about cowboys which said that in such a drought, they feed their cattle prickly pear pads. What they would do was to build a fire and pass the pads through the flames to burn off the glochids and spines. I've read verification of this several times over the years. I do know that Mexicans cook and eat prickly pear pads. I can get them canned in a local store that has a Mexican food section. They pare off the thorns with a knife, then cut them into strips.

[@ZiggySearchfieldCactus]

@@emmitstewart1921 That makes sense 🙂 One of the growers on here has cooked and eaten them. Not tried them myself yet but with the price of food going up....

[@desertplantsofavalon]

hahaha Ziggy :-D I have heard about eating the prickly pear pads of Opuntia, and my friend has had them in a green smoothie, but cutting off and removing the spines and glochids is a tricky one though haha, thanks so much Ziggy for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@morrisparkintheozarks6831]

If it were another more delicate plant, I would probably remove the coir, and mix it up with some of the good soil you used. But these large cereus are super tough!!! I think it will do just fine once the roots get into the good stuff!! I don't think it will harm it in the long run. Enjoy your new plant!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks ,to across the emerald isle, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌺🌴🌻🌹🌳🌷🌲🏵🌿😃👍

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Clyde :-D it was a real dilemma knowing what to do with the coco coir on the roots, I was going to remove it but after my friend warned me about the roots all falling off his I thought it best to just pot it up as is and see how it grows haha, I had to do a similar thing with one of my Trichos I bought a few years ago that had its rootball caked in peat and was impossible to remove it even when I soaked the rootball in a bowl of water, thankfully the Tricho grew really well into the soil and has grown about 4 feet more in height since, I will make an update on how this one gets on, thanks so much Clyde for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb and all the pets and plants all lots of love and happiness and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS and PLANT POWER to Morris Park for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX

[@morrisparkintheozarks6831]

@@desertplantsofavalon 😃👍

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[@sallyedmondson9275]

Love that cactus - it doesn’t look real as it is so perfect ?! 👍🏼💚

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haha Sally :-D I know this cactus looks so perfect with its shape and spineless appearance, so happy you love it too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@wallybong4928]

Most of my 435 cacti died when my heating broke down this year. Empty pots & dead cacti all around, too painful still to remove & I can’t afford more. Very hard to come back and watch, but I missed THIS collection and these repotting videos and, of course, Lyn. This collection was the sole inspiration for my collection.🥲

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Oh no I am so sorry to hear that you have lost so many cacti, thats heartbreaking, I am so very sorry for you, its so sad when we lose plants, and gutting that the heating broke down, maybe you could slowly replace the cacti with very cold hardy cacti like some of the Opuntias and Echinopsis and Gymnocalycium varieties, that can survive very low temps and you dont need to worry about heating them over Winter, I really hope that over time you will be able to start collecting again, thanks so much for watching and your wonderful support, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@Hero87]

I got this one too but I removed all the coco coir and its been fine luckily :) but maybe its growth was slowed down a bit as it had to recover.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thats fantastic that you have this cactus too and was able to remove all the coco coir, let me know how your cactus gets on over time, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@Narut7777]

A piece of coconut coir under the cactus is a bomb with timer )) one wrong watering...and it will make harm and fungi. The same with orchids in moss .. of course if you are in tropical climate it would work. But not in the North with its low sunny days. But I hope you are experienced enough to keep this one alive 😉 Good luck!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Valeria, it will certainly be an experience growing this cactus and I will make a future update on how it gets on, I will be taking this cactus indoors over the window and putting in the grow room under the grow lights, and its one I will be taking extra care with when watering over the growing season, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@philthepowerhouse]

I would definitely remove the old soil first because I bought one of these cuddly cactus and once I removed all of the old soil the bottom of the cactus was rotting away from 2 sides and was spreading upwards, the original soil was completely dry. I would go with your original idea and remove the old soil and plant it up in fresh clean cactus soil and you can also inspect the bottom half of the cactus

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much for letting me know, and so sorry to hear about your cactus, this cactus has put out a lot of new growth but I will be giving this cactus another re pot, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful plant powered Friday XXXX

[@farajaraf]

I got a 6inch one for $5 but it’s practically all brown. Hopefully it’ll turn around

[@desertplantsofavalon]

I hope your cactus will recover well for you, thanks so much for watching and wishing you a wonderful plant powered Thursday XXXX

[@notmodeling8070]

Does hans still grow weed your last videomyou could see the plants in the cornere

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hans has NEVER taken weed or any type of drug in his life and is very anti drugs, he doesn't even take a painkiller if he ever has a headache, he is a very healthy clean living and eating vegan, and at 70 years old he has more energy than me haha, if can assure you that you have NEVER seen any weed in our garden or house or polytunnel, so stop trolling.

[@walterblanc9708]

No idea what mine is , thought it was a Peruvian Apple then a Jamacaru, then I Flip flop back again and so on! Google does not know either, the internet just confuses you more.. Yours are so different! All I have figured is its definitely not a Pachnoi.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thats fantastic you have a similar cactus too Walter, it can be so hard to find the Id for many cacti and there are so many hybrids now, you have a sweet little mystery cactus haha, thanks so much Walter for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle XXXX

[@emmitstewart1921]

If the plant was too badly root bound, I would just cut off that part the roots that circle down and around the outside of the soil ball. The ends that are left will branch out and grow into the new soil.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much for your advice Emmit :-D it was a tricky cactus to repot, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX

[@dhyanidsouza2430]

Lyn, do you put cacti in a pot with other cacti. For example I have had some successes but some not so successful. I have some pots with three or four different ones that have been great. But if I put more than that I don’t seem to find the same success. I don’t find it easy to know which ones do well and which ones don’t. Is there a rule to follow. I would really appreciate your opinion! 🌹🌵

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Dhyani :-D yes I have some plant bowls and pots that I pot a few different types of cacti in, they can look really lovely when planted together, the only problem is that some cacti like to have slightly different care requirements when it comes to watering and light levels, and as long as you plant up cacti that like similar care requirements and you plant them with plenty of area space around each one for the roots and for them to grow they will be fine, I would avoid planting epiphytic cacti like Christmas or Epiphyllum or Rhipsalis with a Desert cactus like Mammillaria, Gymnocalycium or Echinopsis as epiphytic cacti like very different watering and light levels to the Desert dwellers, its best to plant up no more than 4 cacti into the same pot or bowl to allow plenty of root space for them to grow, thanks so much Dhyani for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX

[@dhyanidsouza2430]

@@desertplantsofavalon Thank you very much for your reply Lyn. Much appreciated!

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[@phonphon2130]

Can we use coco peat instead of coconut coir ?

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi there

[@onebug111]

I saw this plane recently at the shops and the tag claims it to be low light tolerant. I cant possibly imagine that this cactus doesnt need full sun. Could anyone clarify this for me?

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Hayley :-D this cactus does love sun but can take a little less sun than some of the other cactus varieties, but it still needs a nice sunny bright location, I keep mine in a south facing position in Spring and Summer and we had a very hot sunny summer last year and this cactus did well, but an east or west facing position will still be great for this cactus too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Friday XXXX

[@farajaraf]

Mine was buried 3 inches deeper than it should’ve been.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Oh wow, its good to get it repotted and planted up to the normal level, I think some of these Cacti are taken as cuttings and may have been planted a bit deeper than they should have been, my friend bought one of these around the same time as I did and his was planted very deep too and was very brown from mid way down, he repotted it and the brown parts are greening up now they have been exposed to natural light, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Friday XXXXX