Propagate Christmas cactus using cuttings or seeds
Usually you multiply one Christmas cactus about cuttings. This method almost always works and you can quickly look forward to an offshoot with many flowers.
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Growing a Christmas cactus from seeds takes a bit of experience and a lot of patience. It can take many months for a new flowering plant to emerge.
How to pull cuttings from cuttings
- Cut off cuttings with a sharp knife
- Let the interfaces dry
- Growing pots(€ 9.70 at Amazon *) prepare
- Insert cuttings
- keep moderately moist
- cover with plastic wrap if necessary
- set up bright and warm
Right after the blossom is the best time to propagate a Christmas cactus. Cut To do this, cut off shoots with one to three limbs from the mother plant with a sharp knife. Let the interfaces dry for two to three days.
Fill small pots with a mixture
Potting soil and Cactus soil. Insert the shoots two to three centimeters deep into the soil and carefully press the substrate on.Place the offshoots in a bright but not too sunny position. Keep the substrate evenly moist, avoiding too much moisture. You can also wrap the pots in cling film to keep the humidity constant. The film must be ventilated at least every two days so that the cutting does not rot or go moldy.
Growing Christmas cactus from seeds
Some varieties not only produce flowers, but they also produce fruits with seeds. When ripe, the fruits burst. They contain a lot of the tiny seeds. Shake out the seeds, remove the pulp and let them dry. To sowing in the following spring they must be stored in a dry place.
In the spring, fill in small ones Growing trays with loose cactus soil or potting soil. Sow the seeds as thinly as possible. Cover the seeds with a very thin layer of soil. It is best to use a flower sprayer to moisten the substrate so that the seeds are not washed away.
It can take several weeks for the seed to germinate and not all of the seeds will sprout by a long way.
Prick out after emergence
Once the young Christmas cactus plants have reached a height of around two to three centimeters, carefully prick them out. Later the individual plants are transplanted into pots with cactus soil and cared for there like adult Christmas cacti.
Tips
as Substrate for Christmas cacti Commercially available cactus soil is suitable. But you can also use garden soil that you loosen up with sand and gravel. It is important that the earth is not too rich in nutrients.
