How To Care For Thanksgiving Or Christmas Cactus. Christmas Cactus loves well drained and sandy soil. Christmas cacti actually tend to bloom and perform better when pot bound.
As such they like average temperatures ranging from 65 degrees to 75 degrees. This might mean you need to re-pot your plant after purchasing it. Care Instructions for Christmas Cactus Keep your Christmas cactus indoors as a houseplant most of the year and give it fertilizer in the springtime after its blooming period.
How to Care for a Thanksgiving or Christmas Cactus.
Keep your plants out of the sun in the summer hot sun could damage the leaves. All types of holiday cacti like to be root bound and will produce more flowers that way. Provide plenty of indirect light and. One cool feature of the Christmas cactus is that you can root a brand new plant just by taking a few clippings from an existing plant.