Christmas Cactus How to Care and Blooming || Holiday cactus /Easter cactus total care

Christmas Cactus/Thanksgiving cactus Growing tips and More flowering

Christmas Cactus Scientific name: Schlumbergera

You see, this plant is Christmas cactus. Other names are Holiday cactus and Easter cactus. This plant grows blooms in winter, mainly the month of December.25th December is Christmas day – blooming comes out at this time. The plants are looking scenic beauty. So, friend, you see Christmas plant, but it is not into the cactus family. It is a succulent plant. It grows flowers in many colors like red, pink, white, yellow, etc.

This plant native to Brazil. This plant grows in a rain forest. It grows on branches of another plant. Mostly between to branches. It is a tropical plant and needs humid weather.Put this plant in indirect sunlight or open window. It is placed indoor or outdoor.In winter, we placed this plant in sunlight. This plant need at the temperature of 20 to 25-degree celsius in the day time and 15 to 20 degree Celsius at night. When it's blooming – this time, this plant needs to 14 hours in darkness and 10 hours in light. This plant needs the temperature to proper blooming at 12 to 18 degrees Celsius. But friends in summer you will place this plant in a shade or indoor place.
Friends, if we want to grow this plant-soil making, is an important part of planting this plant.
I tell you how to make this soil - gardening soil 50%, compost 20%, sand or white sand 20%, And 10% is bark/coco peat/rice husk. Friend, if we want to planting this plant, then you will use drainage soil because much water cannot tolerate this plant. Other hand, this plant needs moist soil, so you will watering once in Three days because this plant could not need dry weather. If the soil is dry, so the blooming time is late.
Friends, if you want this flower in longer, then the plant must be placed in low temperatures like 12 to 18-degree Celsius. Friends, if your Christmas plants do not bloom, then your plants placed in sunlight.
After flowering this plant report and the month of June, your plant prune because the next time grows many branches at your plants.
Every plant needs nutrients to grow. So we use organic fertilizer like – any compost tea, Aloe Vera fertilizer, and also use vermicompost. If we use NPK, then you use water-soluble equal ratio NPK like – 20.20.20 or 15. 15. 15 or 10.10.10 You use fertilizer once a month. Before blooming, you will give fertilizer to grows well, blooming.

Friends these plants attack with mealybug, so we use neem pesticide at this plant in once in 15 days. We see another disease root rot causes over watering.

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