On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:38:29 +0000 (UTC), Andy Clews
wrote:

I have a fairly mature Christmas Cactus in my office and it had lots of
flower buds appearing on the ends of each 'frond' (for want of a better
word). However, all the flower buds stopped growing and dried up when they
were no more than about 5mm long. The plant appears to be healthy and is
watered reasonably regularly, although sparingly at this time of the year.

Anyone know of any reasons for the plant to change its mind about
flowering? Another plant in the office (from which the 'failing' plant was
taken as a cutting a couple of years back) flowered fairly prolifically in
late November and has much the same care regime.

I have a few Christmas and Easter cacti and whenever they start to bud
I increase watering and start to feed, for the Christmas ones this
happens around the end of October, for the Easter ones around
Feb/March. I keep them pretty dry the rest of the year.

I've heard that moving them will cause them to drop buds but it's
never happened to mine.

Joan in Bramhall (Cheshire)