How to know when to re pot a Cactus & Succulent plant

[@pinkwelliesful]

Because of you I have started to collect cacti and succulents...I love your videos.xxxxx

[@desertplantsofavalon]

WOW Deborah :-D I am so happy to hear that I have inspired you to start collecting cacti and succulents :-D its such a fascinating and rewarding and fun passion to collect these amazing plants :-D thanks so much for your fantastic comments and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from Belfast and have a wonderful day today XXXX

[@nilzasuculentasnaholanda4565]

Your collection is breath taking. Double wow.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much for your wonderful kind words and for watching, sending lots of love and plant power from right across the Emerald Isle XXXXXX

[@mollycher3630]

Wow! What a great variety of beautiful cacti and some of them look really big. Must have taken years to grow. I'm really envious here. Hope mine will look as wonderful as yours in the years to come. Here in Malaysia cactuses are expensive and the bigger and rarer they are, the more expensive they get. But I love your cacti and enthusiasm for them, it's infectious 😶😶😶

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks a million Molly for your brilliant comment :-) I love growing these plants and have been growing them for over 30 years now its such fun :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you tons of love and heaps of happiness and Plant Power from right across the Emerald isle to Malaysia for a brilliant Friday XXXX

[@J.Livermore]

just what I was looking for!!!, Thank DPA!!! Love the detail information!.. So happy you mentioned the Soil!.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and I am so happy to hear that it was just what you were looking for :-) thanks a million for watching and sending lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic week ahead XXXXX

[@Gicusplants]

Thank you Lyn, I will refresh the soil more often. Video about repotting will be a good idea.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Gicu for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you an abundance of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic day today XXXX

[@MidwestGardener]

Great tips, especially the one about not over potting. I was trying to imagine what the process might look like when you repot one of the really tall ones. Must be really challenging to keep them from breaking.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haha! re potting the tall cactus guys is always so funny and a dilemma I will be re potting my over 7ft tall big huge cereus cactus next week and will make a video you will laugh at what I have to do to re pot it haha! :-)))))) thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching Jim and sending lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic week ahead XXXXX

[@1st508thAirborne]

Great advice. It answers some questions I had regarding this. :-)

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thats brilliant that this vid answered some of your questions on re potting Chadde :-) thanks a million for your fantastic comment and for watching and sending you and Tammy, Lobo, Kurgan and Oscar and the Yorkies an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle to beautiful Minnesota and have a FANTASTIC new week ahead XXXX

[@darknlovelyanitaw.6088]

Great information...love your pots🙋🏿

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Gale for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you lots of love and happiness from Ireland and have a fantastic Wednesday ahead today XXXX

[@botchi1]

Very good tips. Thank you for all amazing videos. Best wishes. Bo

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) Sending lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic week ahead XXXXX

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I love that big hairy white cactus. It's like a cross between a cactus and a soft toy :)

[@kv7310]

I thought it resembled "the boogieman" lol

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haah! yes it is so like the boogieman haha! :-)))))

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haha! the big hairy cactus is hilarious, I nickname it 'Einstein' because of its wacky long grey hairs haha! thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching Rachel and sending you heaps of love and tons of happiness from Waterford to Wexford for a MAGICAL new week ahead XXXXX

[@torhildsagenghansen6074]

I took care of the job cacti a couple of weeks ago, it was two november cacti, or thanksgiving cacti, as they call them in the US. I took them home to have a look, and I gave them new soil and a slightly bigger pot. One of the two was yellowing badly, but it's already greened up quite a bit. :)

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thats wonderful news that your cacti youn re potted has greened up already :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic weekend XXXX

[@suziecharles8933]

Thnx Lyn. Very helpful video yet again. Have a lovely week. Sending love and sunshine to u 💕💜💙💚🌵🌞🌈

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thank you so much Suzie for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) Sending lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic week ahead XXXXX

[@christinalannan9987]

Thank You !!! I love my cactus 😘 Thank You for the tips

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thank you so much Christina for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) sending you lots of love and happiness from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Thursday XXXXX

[@jiminsy6166]

wow beautiful plant I love it

[@desertplantsofavalon]

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER your way from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic new week XXXX

[@zcoanmcoan1534]

Suprisingly some plants can stay in the same pots for decades. I was recently speaking to a old collector the longest he left a cactus in a pot was for over 45 years. The cactus was healthy and bloomed twice a year.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

WOW at being in the same pot for 45 years :-D and I always think that as long as cacti are fertilised they are best to stay in the same pot for as long as they can be haha, thanks so much Zcoan for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Sunday XXXX

[@justmissjamey]

Oh my gosh!!!!! Lynn just seen your going to open a online store!!!!!!!!! I am sooooo EXCITED !!! Do you think you will have a few plants that would make it to the United states (indiana) Oooh I'd be THRILLED to have a few plants that came from you!!! :)) how exciting! !!! I wouldn't even be picky about what plants to buy from you either hahaha

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks a million for all your amazing comments Sis :-) YES we are really hoping we will be able to sell to the states as we know there are some strict regulations with selling plants and posting them to the states but we will be doing everything possible to make it happen as we really want to be able to sell worldwide :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comments and your amazing support and me and Hans are sending tons of love and heaps of happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Indiana for a magnificent new week XXXXX

[@nancylee1883]

It was fun to run across this video from 7 yrs ago. Great info given back then too. Recent videos show how much your collection has grown 😮. 🩷🌵

[@desertplantsofavalon]

So happy you loved this video from years ago Nancy :-D and I loved the garden at this house I used to live in, it had a wonderful greenhouse and a lot of space compared to the house we are in now, but the Landlord sold the house and we had to move, I really miss that beautiful garden though, thanks so much Nancy for your fantastic support and comment and for watching, sending you tons of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a brilliant new week XXXX

[@Gangstalisous69]

Thank you, great information.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thank you so much Nancy for your wonderful comments and for watching :-) Sending lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic week ahead XXXXX

[@RawMadeSimple]

Very helpful video. Thank you for the share.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thank you so much Michelle and Mark for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) Sending lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic week ahead XXXXX

[@kaitlynjacques8087]

Great tutorial Lyn! :)XXXX

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Kaitlyn for your wonderful comment and for watching Sis:-) Sending you lots of love and heaps of happiness and hugs galore from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic and fab filled fun week ahead XXXXX

[@falzonp1]

What a beautiful collection of cactus you've got! Just a curiosity, how do you handle prickly cactus when changing pots??? Or you use heavy duty gloves!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Awwww thank you so very much Paul :-D yes haha repotting the spiny guys is always a dilemma, I use pieces of newspaper or thin cardboard wrapped around my hands to handle the very spiny ones that like to 'bite' LOL! :-D I find gloves are not that good as the spines can go straight through them 'ouch' but the newspaper and cardboard works well, thanks so much Paul for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Wednesday XXXX

[@falzonp1]

@@desertplantsofavalon Thanks for your answer, but I always wondered how you do it! Sylvia Falzon

[@tt5564]

Hi Lyn thanks for all your lovely and helpful videos, I just wondered if you could help with a problem I have experienced, I purchased a Myrtillocactus geometrizans in a 8 cm pot around 3-4 years ago but 1 of them dried up and eventually I broke it off now the other one seems to be shrivelling up too, do you know what could be the cause of this at all, they're not in direct sunlight and I don't water it too often, maybe 2-3 times a month.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi there :-) so sorry to hear about ypour cactus, there could be a number of reasons but the most common cause could be down to the roots being damaged either by bugs that live in the soil or the roots especially root mealies or the soil is not the right type, the best thing to do is to remove the plant from the pot and thoroughly check over the root system to check for any signs of bugs that could be taking the moisture from the roots, if everything looks ok then it may be a good idea to still completely re pot the plant into fresh soil, and then let the cactus recover in a bright spot but away from very strong sunshine for a couple of weeks to allow the plant to settle into the new pot and do not water for the first two weeks :-) then after 2 weeks you can move the plant into direct sunlight as Myrtillocactus love as much sunshine as possible and less sun can envourage spindly growth which can cause stem die back, good luck with your cactus and let me know how you get on :-) thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness and plant power from right across the Emerald Isle for a terrific Thursday today XXXX

[@chuchu5794]

your vedios are amazing and make me love my cactus 😚😙😍 thank you for all that great informations 😍 love u dear

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX

[@banjothecattledog9590]

Thank you so much

[@desertplantsofavalon]

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle and have a wonderful Wednesday XXXXX

[@daysharose1687]

I bought a succulent arrangement from Home Depot and I love them it's a large variety and different types that I noticed every time I water them they dry right out in the bottom leaves keep drying up and falling off and it takes it a minute to start soaking in the water and it becomes like sawdust when it gets wet but it takes it a minute at least a good 10 minutes of me using a syringe putting drops in there before it starts fluff and up I need to know if this is the soil you're talking about that I need to change it so then I really need to know I'm going to do it anyways but if that's why there are shriveling up that's great news for me because I'm going to meet Lee change them as soon as I get to the store thank you for your great video

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Lea :-) thats so wonderful that you bought an arrangement from Home depot and I bet its beautiful :-) Yes it sounds to me like you definitely have the soil in the pot that is the peat that dries up too fast, and it is always so difficult to re wet the soil again with the peat based soils :-) I am almost sure that this is why your leaves are drying up and because your plants are not getting enough chance to take up water the leaves are falling off, thats brilliant news that you are going to be changing the soil and if you can get a soil that is loam based instead of peat based this will make a massive improvement to your plants as loam based soils retain water for longer and are much easier to get wet :-) I like to use a loam based soil with added grit or perlite and a bit of horticultural sand, but you can also use 50% loam based soil and 50 % perlite or small grit :-) here is a link to a video I have made on How i make my own cactus and succulent soil : kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqSce6RtpseZd5I thanks so much for watching Lea and sending you lots of love and happy growing from Ireland and have a fantastic Wednesday today XXXX

[@frannatura]

Lyn sao lindas suas plantas! quantos anos tem seu cactos mais velho?☺

[@desertplantsofavalon]

uito obrigada Fran por seus comentários maravilhosos :-) minha cactos mais antigo é de cerca de 33 anos de idade, eu entendi quando eu tinha apenas 12 anos, e é um cacto de amendoim silvestrii Chamaecereus :-) sua incrível como ele tem crescido ao longo dos anos a partir de algumas pequenas hastes para um tamanho muito grande agora :-) muito obrigado por assistir e enviar-lhe um grande abraço e muito amor e felicidade da Irlanda para uma fantástica segunda-feira hoje XXXX

[@frannatura]

Uuau! que legal...obrigada pela resposta Lyn...quando voce teve o primeiro cactos eu ainda nao tinha nascido! : )

[@stefhendriks9231]

the look really beautiful. finally we got a few day's of good rain everything looks so good now . I've got my first flower in my little peanut cactus ( love them but have allways a hard time keeping it a live) 😊😀😁😂 👋👋 xx

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Congratulations Stef on your Peanut cactus flowering :-) I bet the flower is a beauty and well worth the wait :-) and at least with the rain you won't need to worry about watering any of them for a while :-) thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching Stef and sending lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic week ahead XXXXX

[@bertjans7564]

Hi Lyn,and hi Luthmilda Giel thank you for tell me this great video from Lyn. greetings from Netherlands Bert Jans

[@desertplantsofavalon]

thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle to the Netherlands for a wonderful 2018 ahead XXXX

[@salpetrillo4266]

Great video !.How do You remember what cacti need water ?.I have cacti from 3"to 5FT. Desert & tropical. I try to write watering dates on My calendar. This is mostly a winter problem, when plants are indoors. SAL.

[@Susana1024]

Very informative, Lynn! After a repot of cactus or succulent and it looks like it's not doing well, I think I over potted it, can I repot again if less than three months since the initial repot? Thank you and hope you are enjoying your day!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thank you so much Susana for your wonderful comment :-) yes that will be absolutely fine to re pot again into a smaller pot and I always prefer to under rather than over pot to be on the safe side :-) thanks so much for watching and sending lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic week ahead XXXXX

[@Susana1024]

Thank you so much for the info, Lynn! Have a wonderful week!

[@indrayudhakusuma7334]

i thought youre gonna repot but then i understand the title how to know when to repot lol.. i love watching repotting video or making new potting dish or bowl video.. i feel enjoyed lol that sounds weird.. ok byeeeeeee

[@desertplantsofavalon]

haha! I LOVE watching people re potting their plants too and I really LOVE the bowl garden and planter arrangements on you tube, i would do more of them myself but I am not that creative haha! I would love to be more creative with my plants, some of the bowl arrangements are incredible, I LOVE watching Laura from 'Garden Answer' here on you tube, her planter and bowl arrangements are so wonderful to watch its like a form of therapy for me to watch haha! thanks so much for watching Indra and sending you heaps of love and happy growing from Ireland to Indonesia for a FANTASTIC new week ahead XXXX

[@OutdoorsAndBotanical]

the trichocereus is pretty COOL! and i saw there was a flower bud on it! hopefully it flowers and forms seed! I won't have many more videos, because I don't have many videos to make😕 I was on a role for videos every day!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

The big Trichocereus has a huge big bud and its getting really ready to bloom any day now so exciting to see and i will be having a go at pollinating it too haha! Have a MAGICAL Monday and new week ahead Aaron :-) XXXXX

[@OutdoorsAndBotanical]

+Desert Plants of Avalon thanks so much, you to!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Outdoors And Botanical The Spinosissima cactus is really funny because it starts off barrel shaped and then gets taller as it ages and then eventually leans over to the side of the pot and then branches out, its crazy because they don't look like the same plant over time, I love how weird and wacky cacti are haha! XXXX

[@OutdoorsAndBotanical]

+Desert Plants of Avalon lol that's crazy!

[@OutdoorsAndBotanical]

are those long cactuses mammilaria? and are those seed pods on the really long one? and thanks for the great video on when to pot on! I will keep this in mind!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much for your fantastic comment Aaron :-) yes the long ones are the Mammillaria spinosissima's they are all so wacky and wonderful haha! the seed pods on the long one are full of seeds, thanks so much for watching and sending tons of love and happy growing from Ireland to Canada for a FAB week ahead XXXXX

[@OutdoorsAndBotanical]

+Desert Plants of Avalon oh ok i though the spinosissima was the one that grew like a tall barrel cactus with the blueish green seed pods?

[@sauravbasu3097]

can I grow desert cactus in only sand with a little soil in bottom of pot??

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Saurav :-) I wouldn't recommend growing desert cacti in mostly sand because there wouldn't be any nutrients in the sand, it would be better if you mixed the sand with the soil, Desert cacti would survive in mostly sand if you was able to fertilize them regularly with a good plant food, but it would be much better if you could pot them into a mostly soil mix, you can use 50 % sand and 50% soil and i like to use this mix myself a lot and it works very well :-) Hope this helps :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you much love and happy growing from Ireland XXXX

[@pablok.9672]

Would it be a good idea to use artificial light on my cacti/succulents?

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi Pablo :-) if you keep your plants in a sunny position then there is no need for artificial lighting, but if you keep your plant in a window that receives very little or no sunshine then artificial lighting can be a help to provide the extra light these plants require, but I don't give them any artificial light and I live in Ireland that is not the sunniest spot to live, but my plants do really well, you only need to use artificial light if you grow your plants in a sunless or windowless position :-) thanks so much for watching and have a fantastic week ahead XXXX

[@lydiaeddins2083]

How long did it take your Pencil Cactus to get that big? I just got some little ones last month, and every time I water them they grow! I was concerned at first, because the new growth was white. But over a few days it goes yellow then a healthy spring green. Does your plant do the same?

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thank you so much Lydia for your wonderful comment :-) yes that perfectly ok for them to do this, my pencil cactus does the same too, it starts off with almost white shoots and then they go yellow an dthen green up again :-) I notice my pencil plant goes yellow in bright sunshine and then goes really green again when I give it a bit more shade :-) I bought my plant last year and it has grown about another 2 feet in height it grows so fast, I will be re potting it again in the next week or two :-) thnks so much for watching and sending lots of love and happiness from Ireland for a fantastic week ahead XXXXX

[@Maegrauko]

how do you take all the soil of tho?

[@asasdfdd1238]

Does cactus harm each other if they are too close?

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi there, its always best to plant cactus in separate pots as if they are growing too close the spines can pierce each other, Cacti can be grown close together in pots if there is space around them so that they don't pierce each other, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful day XXXX

[@asasdfdd1238]

@@desertplantsofavalon thank you

[@desertplantsofavalon]

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[@donnasparlin4867]

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[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Donna for your awesome support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Thursday XXXX

[@BobMelsimpleliving.]

Repotting a cactus seems tricky with the thorns. See the pretty flower. The End. Best wishes Bob.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much Bob for your fantastic comment :-) re potting cacti is the part of the hobby i dread haha! especially the very tall spiny ones, I have to re pot my very tall and spiny over 7ft tall Cereus cactus soon as its falling out of its pot haha! and I am not looking forward to it although it is going to be funny and i will have to film re potting it for the laughs :-))) thanks so much for watching Bob and sending both you and Melody and the Family loads of love and happiness from Ireland for a wonderful week ahead XXXXX

[@BobMelsimpleliving.]

That is a video I Must see. Hope you are having a great day. Best wishes Bob.

[@lillycallandphotography432]

Thanks! Thought my cactus was dying turns out he just needs repotting :)

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and have a fantastic Sunday today XXXX

[@BadBeanTaco]

I have a cactus that I’ve been needing to be repot for a week or two (I was moving so it wasn’t something I could do) but I was looking at it today to make sure I get the next pot size up and I noticed a new small cacti popping out from the soil - should I still repot it? I would hate to kill the new one coming in but this cacti has been needing to get repotted so I’m not sure what to do!!! Please help! Thank you!

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Hi there :_D I would repot your cactus and eave the little cacti on the Mother plant as it sounds like it is starting to form little 'pups' around the base which is normal for some cacti and it would be best to leave the baby cactus on the Mother plant when you re pot it :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from the Emerald Isle for a fantastic day XXXXX

[@tt5564]

sorry I was meant to say that the cacti came as a trio in a pot

[@desertplantsofavalon]

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