Product Description:
Notocactus rutilans best known as Notocactus rutilans, is a small-growing, usually solitary, cactus species. The numerous stiff, sharp spines are varicoloured and the centrals are reddish-brown. The flowers are very showy, 5 cm long, with much white wool along the tubes, and translucent petals, salmon to carmine-red shading to egg-yolk yellow in the centre. The plants are very free-flowering and self- fertile; producing many seeds. When in flower the whole plant shimmers with color and it flowers when quite young,
Light:
It likes a warm bright location, does great in partial shade but doesnt like full, hot blazing sun in the central summer month.
Soil:
It prefers a neutral to slightly acidic mineral-based potting mix with plenty of extra grit and feeds it during the summer.
Water:
Water during the growing season but pot plants in winter are wet-sensitive and needs to be kept dry (rots easily if a soil is wet and cold) tends to lose its roots in winter. Water Best if watered with rainwater.
Temperature:
Ideal temperature 13 to 55.4 degrees F
Minimum temperature in winter 10 to 50 degrees F
Fertilizer:
Use any organic fertilizer.
