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Cactus plants
Sacha writes
*Please* tell me how to look after my Christmas cactus! I do water it from time to time and at present, it's putting on healthy looking shoots at the tips. But the flowering performance is abysmal round about Christmas time! I haven't a clue! By trial and error, I have mine in an east window, standing on a tray of gravel so I can keep a moist atmosphere round the plants without letting the soil get soggy (if I don't do this, then they keep shedding branchlets) and water once a week, using weak fertiliser during the summer. They are steadily increasing in size and flower abundantly, two of them earlier in the year and the third (which is the one that has conventional bell shaped flowers not the strange affairs of zygocactus) has just finished flowering now. But it goes dead against all I've read about them -- Kay |
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