Thanksgiving Cactus Bloom Time, Houseplant Guru Holiday Cactus

How to get your christmas cactus to bloom.

Thanksgiving recipe appetizer. It is a thermo photoperiodic plant the amount of light and darkness determines if and when it flowers. Mine sits in a sw facing window. The christmas cactus was given to my mother by her grandmother my brother and i then split it between us.

The general rule of thumb for starting flower bud treatments is early october for thanksgiving cactus and mid october for christmas cactus. These plants often bloom in shades of pink yellow white or red which adds a bright contrast to your traditional fall decor. Once flower buds form blossoms are long lasting in an average home environment and a heavily budded plant can bring on blooms for two weeks or more.

My thanksgiving cactus isnt as prolific. They come in a range of colors mostly pastels including red pink peach purple orange or white and typically bloom in thanksgiving. Usually the plant tends to bloom around the end of october and the bloom continues until the first couple weeks of november.

The trick to getting your christmas cactus to bloom boils down to three critical things. Whatever type of plant it is the thanksgiving holiday cactus is a proven winner with blooms that last for 2 to 4 months and an easy going nature. In fact you can get the same plants that are marketed as thanksgiving cacti or even easter.

Light temperature and watertypically the bloom season for this plant comes during fall in the last days of october and the early days of novemberthis information will help you understand when you should start preparing your plant for the blooming season. It starts blooming in december and is still blooming now. Both thanksgiving and christmas cactus are easy care plants that can bloom for many weeks.

I have both a christmas and thanksgiving cactus. Thanksgiving cactus starts blooming in september and after dropping blooms. Flowers of the thanksgiving cactus are produced from the tips or from where the leaf segments jointhey resemble a long tube appearing as if a flower within a flower.

There are several things that play a key role in helping a thanksgiving cactus to bloom at the right time. Thanksgiving cactus both christmas and thanksgiving cactus are called short day plants phototropic plants meaning the shorter the days fewer hours of light and the cooler the night temperatures the more flowers they. They are easy plants to grow and propagate.

The thanksgiving cactus schlumbergera ttruncata the leaves of thanksgiving cactus plants are broad and flat with small serrated edges. And the one with the rounded ears is known as an easter cactus both bloom at approximately the time of year they are named after. The only real problem with the plant is its need to be fooled in order to bloom again the next year.