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Here's how to repot your Christmas cactus so it continues to thrive for years to come.
Christmas cactus plants prefer to be a bit root-bound, so they only require repotting every three to five years. Late winter to early spring is a great time to repot Christmas cacti, after they ...
Pot your Christmas cactus in well-drained, slightly acidic soil. Apply fertilizer during the spring and summer months. Prune the plant immediately following its growing season to prep for the next ...
April is the best time to repot the cacti. When you do repot you need to wear heavy gloves or wrap the cacti in newspaper. Put the cacti in a container that is only a little larger than the previous container. After you repot the cacti, you should wait several days before watering. Use a low nitrogen fertilizer once a month from June to September.
Keep plants cool (around 50 degrees) following their blooming period. Water them to keep the soil just barely moist, and be sure to withhold fertilizer. When new growth begins, use the following ...
Any Christmas cactus plants that you purchase in the fall are With their handsome, notched foliage and exotic-looking flowers, these handsome plants can live for decades. (Some up to 100 years.)
It is a parasitic plant growing on the roots or of various shrubs such as burrobush, Yerba Santa, California croton, rabbitbrush, and ragweeds. [1] As a heterotroph which derives its nutrients from other plants, it lacks chlorophyll and is brownish-gray or whitish in color. There are hairy, glandular, pointed leaves along the surface of the plant.
The Garden began in the early 1950s as Ruth Bancroft's private collection of potted plants within Bancroft Farm, a 400-acre (160 ha) property bought by publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft (grandfather of Ruth's husband Philip) in the 1880s as an orchard for pears and walnuts.