Indoors
Column cactus
Cereus
- Cat: not toxic
- Dog: not toxic
- Light: full sun
About the plant
The column cactus (Cereus) comes from South America. It slowly grows upward as a ribbed column and can get quite tall indoors. In winter it likes it cool and the soil almost dry.
Column cactus and pets
- Cat
- not toxic
- Dog
- not toxic
No entry in the ASPCA list. The spines can hurt mouths and paws.
Care
- Watering
- about every 14 days in summer (April to September), every 40 in winter. Let the soil dry out to the bottom.
- Light
- full sun
- Air humidity
- low
- Temperature
- 8–32 °C
- Feeding
- April to August, every 6 weeks
- Repotting
- every 3 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
Cool and almost dry in winter, and it flowers more readily in spring. In summer it can go out on the balcony.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.