How To Care For Christmas Cactus After They Bloom. Once your Christmas cactus has stopped blooming continue to care for with consistent watering. Place your Christmas cactus in its new pot.
Lightly pat the soil or potting mix to remove air pockets and water moderately. When you see new growth put the plants in an area of your home with a 55 to 65 degrees F temperature and give them 10 hours of light and 14 hours of darkness for a period of 4 to 6 weeks. Once your Christmas cactus has stopped blooming continue to care for with consistent watering.
Christmas Cactus is known as a short-day plant which means it needs 12-24 hours of darkness every day preferably in a cool room to enter a flowering period.
Add fresh potting mix inside the pot making sure to cover the roots. If the plants lack these nutrients the leaves become discolored with yellow purple or red patches. Fertilizing and pruning should be held off until the warm spring and summer months arrive. Christmas cactus requires fertilizers to stimulate bloom and also nutrients for plant growth.