Should you Prune Your Christmas Cactus?

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Prune your Christmas Cactus. Pruning is easy and keeps them healthy, bushy, and in check. Got a Christmas or Thanksgiving Cactus that is outgrowing its space? Prune it!

This is the step by footstep on how to prune Christmas Cactus . This information also applies to your Thanksgiving Cactus , if you desire to know the difference you may read up on that in this postChristmas Cactus or Thanksgiving Cactus , how can you tell?Many also call them Zygo Cactus .

Confused yet ?

In this post , I will use the term Christmas cactus but I will be displaying dress on a Thanksgiving Cactus . Most plants in stores and garden centers are Thanksgiving Cactus but sell as Christmas Cactus , so we will just vanish with that .

notice : you may regain out here how to say difference between a Thanksgiving Cactus and a Christmas Cactus !

What you will learn

Be certain to watch the full telecasting as I prune one of my plant and what I do with the pieces that get dress off . The picture is at the end of this Emily Post and will be so helpful .

Why Prune Christmas Cactus?

You may want to reduce the size of your plant if it is becoming too tumid . Or one side is raise faster than the other and you require it more symmetrical .

If you are pruning to reduce the plant ’s size then you may lop back by a third each yr . This will also make a bushier plant with more places for blooms to develop .

This cactus below is my deterrent example . I have most of my cactus in smaller - sized pot that agree on my window sills , progress to it leisurely to keep many colors . I have 5 different colour at present .

How to Prune Christmas Cactus for a bushier and healthier plant. And/or keep it a manageable size! Video included. Easy and you get to create new plants with your pruning to give as gifts. #christmascactus #houseplants #indoorgarden #winterflowers #pruning #propagation #Schlumbergera, christmas cactus in bloom

It is getting a bit tall for this pot . This is because the pot is plastic thus a lighter weightiness and the plant is becoming top - clayey with all the healthy young growth . This makes the plant require to tip over .

( I now attempt to only pot up my Christmas / Thanksgiving cactus in Terra Cotta Pots for a few reasons , clack here for why I sleep together Terra Cotta mickle )

When to Prune Christmas Cactus

So as not to lose blossom the good time to prune your Christmas cactus is right after it is done blooming . This varies by plant . Most all of mine have stopped blossom but one . It has tiny buds on it again , this is the first workweek of March and it has been bloom since November . The buds are so bantam that if I have not look nigh I would ’ve missed them .

you’re able to prune on up through late Spring and not lose next year ’s flowers .

How to Prune

grok the segment you wish to prune down and practice your thumbnail to separate it at the juncture . Some say to just twist the segment but mine are fairly solid and baffling and need my thumbnail to create a clean catch .

What Next?

Now that you have all these small-arm cut off your Christmas Cactus what to do with them . you’re able to chuck them into your compost raft or you’re able to take root them for more plants .

Here is an entire Emily Price Post on how I rout my Christmas Cactus cutting .

Root your Prunings!

you’re able to well take root your Christmas and Thanksgiving Cactus pruning . Quick and wanton agency to get more !

Some do this directly in dirt but I have bump this method acting is easier and more successful . Some claim that you postulate at least 4 leave on the segment you like to root but I have found that not absolutely right . I have rooted 1 that only have 2 leaf segments .

( of late I watch a video of how a commercial-grade grower take root them and they use just 1 segment )