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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 ...
Whether or not you water your Christmas cactus correctly directly impacts how festive your bloom season is. Water your Christmas cactus deeply when watering. Because you're not watering Christmas ...
Cut back on watering after your holiday cactus stops flowering, which is generally late winter for Thanksgiving and Christmas cactus plants and early spring for Easter cactus. Allow the top 3-4 ...
Christmas cactus do fine in most homes with average indoor temperatures and humidity levels, if you keep them watered correctly. In fact, you only need to water when the top inch or two of soil ...
Epiphyllum (usually Epiphyllum oxypetalum, gooseneck cactus; grown as an indoor houseplant throughout the world, and the most popular cultivated night-blooming cereus) Harrisia Hylocereus (of which Hylocereus undatus is the most frequently cultivated outdoors and is the main source of the commercial fruit crop, dragonfruit )
We estimate it to be nearly 100 years old. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.79.79 12:08, 1 July 2009 (UTC) The very old plants called "Christmas cactus" are almost certainly specimens of the plant now called Schlumbergera × buckleyi or Schlumbergera Buckleyi Group, if not the actual cultivar S. 'Buckleyi'.
Old growth saguaro. The saguaro (/ s ə ˈ (ɡ) w ɑːr oʊ / sə-(G)WAR-oh, [5] Spanish: [saˈɣwaɾo]; Carnegiea gigantea) is a tree-like cactus species in the monotypic genus Carnegiea that can grow to be over 12 meters (40 feet) tall.
However, if tended to properly, the Christmas cactus can live well after the joyous season and bloom year over year. In fact, it can live up to 20 years. And, if you have any furry friends at home ...