{"id":19538,"date":"2024-07-07T21:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T20:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19538"},"modified":"2024-07-07T07:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T06:04:02","slug":"get-christmas-cactus-ready-to-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/get-christmas-cactus-ready-to-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Christmas Cactus Ready to Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19540\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/schlumbergera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0&#8216;A Cactus is not just for Christmas&#8217;<\/h5>\n<p>Christmas Cactus are succulent\u00a0 cultivars of Schlumbergera.<\/p>\n<h3>Tips For Growing Christmas Cactus<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>As the name suggests in the Northern hemisphere and the UK these plants normally flower between November and February<\/li>\n<li>Flower buds are stimulated by shortened day length and need 12 hours\u00c2\u00a0 uninterrupted darkness from late summer through autumn.<\/li>\n<li>To encourage Christmas flowering, from September, they need 8-10 hours of daily sunshine (don&#8217;t we all). A bright windowsill will suffice but cover in darkness the rest of the day.<\/li>\n<li>Postion plants to avoid domestic lighting or cover every night with blackout material.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Keep temperature below 18c but above 10c<\/li>\n<li>Fluctuating temperatures can cause the buds to fall but so can over watering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Christmas Cactus Varieties<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Schlumbergera x buckleyi\u00c2\u00a0 have fleshy stems not leaves.<\/li>\n<li>Stems are divided into flattened leaf-like segments with scalloped margins\u00a0 and they can grow quite long and droop over the edge of a pot.<\/li>\n<li>Schlumbergera x bridgesii another Christmas Cactus\u00a0 do not have spines like many cactus<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\">Easter cactus, also known as a spring cactus are not members of the Schlumbergera family. They look similar, bloom in spring but are Rhipsalidopsis gaetneri or Hatiora gaetneri plants.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8216;A Cactus is not just for Christmas&#8217; Christmas Cactus are succulent\u00a0 cultivars of Schlumbergera. Tips For Growing Christmas Cactus As the name suggests in the Northern hemisphere and the UK these plants normally flower between November and February Flower buds are stimulated by shortened day length and need 12 hours\u00c2\u00a0 uninterrupted darkness from late summer through autumn. To encourage Christmas flowering, from September, they need 8-10 hours of daily sunshine (don&#8217;t we all). A bright windowsill will suffice but cover&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/get-christmas-cactus-ready-to-flower\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-greenhouse-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21527,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions\/21527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}