Echinocereus fitchii
Flowers: pink-purple with dark burgundy center.
Blooming season: late April / early May to late June.
Growth rate: It grows well, though slowly. but it’s susceptible to rotting if too wet.
Exposure: It likes a sunny position also blasting sun in summer. If grown indoor provide 4 to 6 hours, or more, direct morning or afternoon sun.
Watering: It is sensitive to overwatering (rot prone). Needs a very good drainage to avoid rotting but requires more moisture than true desert cacti to grow and produce flowers.
Hardiness: It its natural environment it is very cold resistant from -10° to -25° C or less for short periods of time. During winter months, put them in a cool luminous place and encourage them to enter winter dormancy by withholding water over the winter as they will etiolate, or become thin, due to lower levels of light.
Maintenance: Repot every two years. Needs lots and lots of space to grow.
Some of the information in this description has been found at desert-tropicals.com, llifle.com and cactus-art.biz
Bloom Season
Flower Color
Growth Rate
Hardiness Zone
Mature Size
Sun Exposure
| Bloom Season | Late winterearly summer |
|---|---|
| Botanical Name | Echinocereus Fitchii |
| Common Name | Fitch's hedgehog cactus |
| Dormancy | Winter |
| Family | Cactaceae |
| Flower Color | Fuchsia (redpurple) |
| Growth Habit | cylindrical |
| Growth Rate | Slow growth |
| Hardiness Zone | 8b to 11 |
| Mature Size | Under 6 in. |
| Native Area | Mexico |
| Resistance | 5° (10°) C |
| Sun Exposure | Full sun |
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Echinocereus fitchii
Flowers: pink-purple with dark burgundy center.
Blooming season: late April / early May to late June.
Growth rate: It grows well, though slowly. but it’s susceptible to rotting if too wet.
Exposure: It likes a sunny position also blasting sun in summer. If grown indoor provide 4 to 6 hours, or more, direct morning or afternoon sun.
Watering: It is sensitive to overwatering (rot prone). Needs a very good drainage to avoid rotting but requires more moisture than true desert cacti to grow and produce flowers.
Hardiness: It its natural environment it is very cold resistant from -10° to -25° C or less for short periods of time. During winter months, put them in a cool luminous place and encourage them to enter winter dormancy by withholding water over the winter as they will etiolate, or become thin, due to lower levels of light.
Maintenance: Repot every two years. Needs lots and lots of space to grow.
Some of the information in this description has been found at desert-tropicals.com, llifle.com and cactus-art.biz
Bloom Season
Flower Color
Growth Rate
Hardiness Zone
Mature Size
Sun Exposure
| Bloom Season | Late winterearly summer |
|---|---|
| Botanical Name | Echinocereus Fitchii |
| Common Name | Fitch's hedgehog cactus |
| Dormancy | Winter |
| Family | Cactaceae |
| Flower Color | Fuchsia (redpurple) |
| Growth Habit | cylindrical |
| Growth Rate | Slow growth |
| Hardiness Zone | 8b to 11 |
| Mature Size | Under 6 in. |
| Native Area | Mexico |
| Resistance | 5° (10°) C |
| Sun Exposure | Full sun |