When it is young and growing, it is best to repot your Golden Barrel Cactus once a year in a slightly bigger container during spring. When handling, it is best to use gloves to protect your hands from prickly spines. Not enough sunlight and overwatering are common mistakes. Like most cacti, it is drought tolerant and needs very little care and attention to grow well. So you can expect to wait about ten years for the cactus to reach 10 inches (25 cm) in diameter. Golden Barrel Cactus is fairly quickly growing at first, and then the growth rate slows.
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Flowers are diurnal, yellow, up to 2 inches (5 cm) in diameter, and appear in a ring at the top of the stem in summer but only on mature specimens (after 20 years or so) receiving enough full sun. The spines are long, straight or slightly curved, in various shades of yellow or occasionally white. It grows up to 3.3 feet (1 m) tall and is nearly equal in diameter. The stem ai pale green and heavily ribbed with numerous areoles sprouting sharp radial spines. azureus, Ferocactus grusonii, Kroenleinia grusonii Scientific ClassificationĮchinocactus grusonii, also known as Kroenleinia grusonii, is a slow-growing cactus with a spherical, usually solitary stem that becomes barrel-shaped with age. subinermis, Echinocereus grusonii, Echinocereus grusonii var. Golden Barrel Cactus, Golden Barrel, Golden Ball Cactus, Golden Ball, Mother-in-Law's Cushion, Mother-in-Law's Seat Synonym(s)Įchinocactus corynacanthus, Echinocactus galeottii, Echinocactus grusonii var. Or spray with Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).Echinocactus grusonii Hildm.
If fall webworms are a problem, puncture webs with broom handle for wasps to naturally control.Mow high to fend off weed seeds that germinate in September’s rains.Results are erratic but it does add some nitrogen to the soil Apply corn gluten as a weed pre-emergent.Find out what’s causing the problem like low drainage spots or compacted areas. Brown patch: Apply a quarter inch of compost.Decide wildflower seeds and bulbs to plant in November.Add compost to vegetable gardens along with organic fertilizer in prep for winter vegetables.Iris, daylily, fern, liriope, spring-blooming perennials, violets, cannas.Early month: lightly prune roses and perennials.Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Vegetable Planting Guides (Central Texas).Start winter seeds like lettuce, broccoli, kale and spinach in pots in shady areas.Perennial herbs like thyme, rosemary, oregano Late month: Cover crops for dormant vegetable beds: clover, hairy vetch, elbon (cereal) rye, Austrian winter peas, or annual rye.Late month: Perennials, shrubs, ornamental (clumping) grasses.Our viewer pics this week come from Kim Simmons, of her Easter barrel cactus, and from Nichole Staehling, of a wasp visiting her Knock Out rose. Extremely slow growing, these plants will take many years to reach the flowering stage, when the center will become a gorgeous ring of bright yellow blooms. As it grows, the spines will begin to line up in regimented columns, exposing more of the trunk.Įventually getting up to three feet tall and about as wide, golden barrel cactus adds a striking textural element to the landscape and looks great planted either alone as a specimen or in small groupings near other xeric plants. The bright green trunk of this cactus will be only barely visible when this plant is young, as it will be covered with small, vibrant yellow spines. Native to high desert regions, barrel cacti are hardy to 20 degrees, should be planted in full sun, and should almost never be watered once established. If adjusting your landscape isn’t an option, barrel cacti are also very happy in containers.
As with most desert species, this cactus simply will not tolerate soggy soil, so unless your landscape is well-drained, even rocky, you’ll need to take special care with this plant, installing special beds or even building berms, and backfilling them with very porous soil materials such as sand and decomposed granite. Golden Barrel cactus is a beautiful addition to any xeric landscape.
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