How To Care For Christmas Cactus Plant. Tips on Christmas cactus blooms. For these reasons it requires more water than most succulents remember to let the soil dry out before.
Water only when the soil is completely dry and feed using a nitrogen-free fertilizer. Keep your plant cool 10C50F. While the buds are blooming continue watering and feeds your Christmas cactus plant.
Provide it with bright light and keep the soil moist.
Reduce the amount of watering. The Christmas cactus Schlumbergera truncata or Zygocactus truncatus is a native plant of Brazil which lives in the warm and humid forests in the trunks of the treesIt is therefore an epiphyte plant that grows in places where direct sunlight does not reach. Feed one last time in the season October or November to encourage Christmas blooming. Water only when the soil is completely dry and feed using a nitrogen-free fertilizer.