A cactus grown upside downSourced
It sprawls across its neighbours.
So a grower hangs it through a pot's base.
In cultivation, the Mexican cactus Mammillaria matudae tends to grow beyond its pot and over other plants. Cactus specialist John Pilbeam recommends threading its stem through a hole in the bottom of a hanging pot to grow it upside down and save space.
The top of the pot
is not always the best way up.
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