Lophophora Care instructions

Care instructions:

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Soil: 20% high grade potting soil with wood screened out and mixed with high mineral mix. Things like crushed coral, crushed limestone pea gravel, crushed Granite pea gravel, crushed oyster shell, Turface MVP, lava rock, zeolite, maifantium, akadama.

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Lighting: partial shade. They grow up under bushes and are never in full sun. If indoors, a great LED light can be bought from Spider Farmer (great prices on Amazon ). Can also be next to a window. If you have extremely bright grown lights a shade cloth can also be used to lower the light.  If they elongate (etiolation) , you need more light, if they turn darker with reddish purple hue, you need less light. 

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Water: only water when soil substrate is 100% Dry. Mineral water is best. Avoid chlorinated water. 

•   Bottom watering: You can bottom water using mesh bottom trays, or single 3” pots or 4” pots. Sometimes it’s a great idea to use a combination of both and dunk the mesh bottom tray into water with an inexpensive concrete mixing tub from Home Depot for $7-8 or you can buy a multipack of tubs  from Amazon 

• Top watering: top watering can be done with a sprayer or squeeze bottle by wetting the growing medium around the plant to avoid the plant getting wet with any fertilizer added in water.

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Feeding: Amazon has great cacti fertilizer. It’s called Shultz Cacti fertilizer.
It can be used every time you water.

You can download these instructions with this link