I'm doing the plastic bag mini-greenhouse windowsill try to get the cactuses to sprout and almost 2 weeks in still no sign of success Setup: cactus soil (no fertilizer) keeping the soil moist by a spray bottle once every 2 or so days 60 watt flourescent on about 12 hours a day since i haven't seen a...

Yeah, well i'm going with the Schultz Cactus Plus fertilizer Think these are the specs: Contains 2% nitrogen (0.5% ammoniacal; 0.5% nitrate; 1.0% urea); 7% phosphate; 7% soluble potash; 0.10% iron; 0.05% manganese; and 0.05% zinc It'll probly ask me to dillute it a good bit (which i plan on doing) b...

My own mix that I made for it is only topsoil and perlite. no fertilizer is in this new mix. i even soaked the perlite for a couple of days so that 0 fertilizer will be in it until i add the schultz cactus liquid in a month or so. i stress using the fertilizer, because i bought it for the small size...

I guess ill just have to wait another 2 weeks to a month and water it again.

Then when May comes around Ill add the fertilizer then

Should I make sure it get some of this new fertilizer soon or what?? it's looking down and out

I dont know, i'd say it was semi-wrinkled during dormant season, and after this first springtime watering it appears to be more wrinkled

I just watered this thing for the first time in over a month and it is straight wrinkled What should i do? I bought it some new fertilizer to help it grow the best this season, should i hurry and add that to the next watering?? haven't tried that fertilizer on it yet. i mean this thing does not look...

Seriously, i need to know when its safe to water next (its been a month, but i just repotted yesterday)

and i also need to know when its safe to add fertilizer to the newly-repotted cactus

Alright cool.

So a few weeks without any water?

And what, maybe early April I can give it a little fertilizer??

do i want to leave the clump of dirt thats attached to the cactus' root??

or remove that clump so its all the new mixture?

do i want to rinse its roots off or anything?

it sounds basic, just don't want to mess anything up

Alright so I'm about to repot my cactus. By the sounds of it i should just put the cactus in its new pot/soil-mix and not water it for a couple of weeks?

how exactly do i safely repot a single cactus?
and how long before i add new fertilizer

i'm soaking it now.

should a day or two be adequate??

so what should i do?

i dont want the miracle gro to be too strong for my little cactus. could i just soak the perlite in water for a day or two? i just wanted horticultural grade perlite without anything added...

i'm hoping a good soaking will leave me with what i wanted in the first place...

Just picked this up and read on the bag it alrady has Miracle Grow Plant Food enriched into the Perlite. Could this pose problems? I'm thinking i just wanted straight horticultural grade Perlite without any miracle gro "enrichments" of any kind. I'm going to be using a cactus-based plant f...