Thanksgiving Cactus Blooming In October, Christmas Cactus Blooming Out Of Season Gardening Charlotte

Christmas cactus is a popular tropical houseplant offering bold colorful blooms.

Thanksgiving emoji quiz. Many of the plants that you will find in the market that are sold as christmas cacti arent actually christmas cacti. The general rule of thumb for starting flower bud treatments is early october for thanksgiving cactus and mid october for christmas cactus. It is called a leaf cactus but is not a true cactus.

It abundantly found in stores of all sorts in the holiday season even supermarkets. This winter repeat bloom is much sparser. Schlumbergera truncata is the thanksgiving cactus.

They come in a range of colors mostly pastels including red pink peach purple orange or white and typically bloom in thanksgiving. Why is my christmas cactus blooming in october. Heres how my thanksgiving cactus looked last november.

The cactus plant i treasure most comes not from the desert but from the mountains of brazil where it grows like the orchid in the crotches of trees. The thanksgiving cactus schlumbergera ttruncata the leaves of thanksgiving cactus plants are broad and flat with small serrated edges. In fact you can get the same plants that are marketed as thanksgiving cacti or even easter.

If you want to id your plant see how to tell the difference between christmas and thanksgiving cactus. Or february or april did you know that some christmas cacti bloom continually from thanksgiving to easter. Rather it is an epiphyte those plants which live on other plants.

Usually the plant tends to bloom around the end of october and the bloom continues until the first couple weeks of november. My christmas cactus the one thats pictured had blooms shortly after i bought it the first year 2018 then had four seemingly random blooms around easter in april. First off i havent purposefully done anything to cause the re blooming.

The leaves are broad and flat with slight serrations on the edges in the thanksgiving vs. The conditions ive had it growing in have most likely caused it. Under normal circumstances it will bloom in very late october or in november.

Ive found that some plants like hoyas flower when they darn well please. 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. These plants often bloom in shades of pink yellow white or red which adds a bright contrast to your traditional fall decor.

Whether called thanksgiving christmas or easter and labelled as schlumbergera or rhipsalidopsis each variety gets the same care and can be encouraged to bloom on schedule with the special tips provided here. Christmas cactus which has smoother. 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.