How to Re-pot a Christmas/Easter Cactus Schlumbergera / Rhipsalidopsis 

Thank you for teaching me the correct way to repot a Cactus. Excellent instructions.

My cousin has a Christmas cactus that began as a cutting from our grandmother’s plant. When she got the cutting, our grandmother had been growing that plant 50 years, and she has been dead 27 years. Thus, my cousin has a 77 year old Christmas Cactus! Oh how I wish I had a piece🥰🥰🥰.

Omg so beautiful Christmas flowers and plants 👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

Seeing you pot up a Christmas cactus brings back memories. My parents came from West Virginia which, at that time was an area known for bitter poverty. Large flower pots were scarce then, and most farm families couldn't afford one if they had been available. The same thing went for steel cookware, So most people cooked their meals in Aluminum pots, which didn't last long. Sooner or later, they became leaky and useless for cooking. So when a West Virginia housewife had a large plant to pot up, she would take an old, leaky aluminum stockpot, punch some more holes with a nail, and use it as a plant pot. One of the big plants planted in these kettles was the family Christmas cactus or "Star Of Bethlehem" ( a White flowered epiphyllum. The petals represented the star, and the stamens represented the straw in the manger.) I must have been fifteen years old before I could remember seeing a Christmas cactus growing in a clay or plastic pot. To this day, when I think of a Christmas Cactus, I remember my Aunt Rita's plant in its beat-up old aluminum kettle.

Charming this video pops up as I’ve been thinking I should replant my Christmas cactus into a larger pot. tY for the demonstration!

Loved your video and also you have a beautiful smile,greetings from Maine,USA!

Thanks so much. I’ve been putting off repotting and she’s ready! Wish me luck

What a cheerful young lady, really brightened my day. Thank you.

Thank you!! My Christmas Cactus is in need of re-potting. I have never re-potted it before and your tips are very helpful. I love the idea of the cardboard over the pot. This would be helpful when re-potting any plant. Cheers!

One of my favorite plants, I had a beautiful Christmas Cactus at one time, it had these gorgeous Magenta colored flowers.

I just got a Christmas cactus and this video really helped :) thanks! I also love watching your videos whenever I'm not feeling too good, you have this amazing happy aura around you that resonates in your videos :) makes me smile 😊 have a great day!

It's always Christmas, when you're uploading. That is a nice big plant and I like your root-ball. I love all of the neato methods and the great advice and wow, what a pretty sight. Thanks

Loved your video, you showed us step by step how to repotthis cactus ❤

I have this cacti for almost 4 years now, my friend gave me just from cutting. A year after blooming so much, now I have to repot into bigger container. Thank you so much for the video, you're just such a wonderful person and again thanks for posting.... Happy gardening.

Excellent tips. 🌸When well cared for these Christmas cactus can be very long lived indeed. My aunt has one she inherited from her grandmother which is much older than I am. 🌱

GORGEOUS Christmas Cactus! 💖

Very good information. I liked you video

Nice tip! I will have to try the orchid mix for the Easter and Christmas cactus I inherited from my mom! Thanks... 😃

I love watching my dream girl in theses videos

It was a joy to watch...I feel really happy and uplifted! Oh and there are some great tips for re-potting as well :) Cheers!

That is just a beautuful plant. So big! Thanks for the info!

Thank you so much for the tip about using orchid compost for these types of cactus,our easter cactus is now 25 years old and flowers with no fail each year but tends to get droopy after flowering time is over,have been using ordinary cacti compost but to treat our old little cactus i will try the orchid one this time as its due to be re-potted,thanks again for the tip!

Thank you Lyn for your wonderful info and i hope you have a great weekend.Keep growing.

I've had cacti for a long time and I was looking for info on suitable compost for growing xmas cacti from seed and came across your video again (had seen part of it earlier this year). Thanks for the info on using orchid compost - in the past I've always used a general purpose compost but last year I started having problems with the parent plant and cuttings failing using my usual supplier as the constituency had changed. I'll get some orchid compost and try that. It was good to see how happy you are in the videos. It make watching them a pleasure. I'll check out you other videos on cacti -hoping to get tips on how to get them to flower regularly. Robert.

Your videos are 'wonderful and helpful'. Thank you for making them!

That looks like a Thanksgiving cactus. The segments have points on them. As far as I know, the Christmas cactus' has smoother sided segments.

Liked this video. Short and to the point! Sometimes they want to talk to much about nothing.

I have 2 pots 2 colors from last year time need bigger pot Thank you for sharing My Dear 🙏♥️

Thank you for the information. I'm not exactly a botanist. So this was very informative.

Very informative.

Fantastic beautiful plant; my favorite!!!!!

thank you, mine will need to be repotted next spring, so I am glad you shared this video. love your hat btw.

Hi my name is Jonathan thanks for the videos I've got A lot of brilliance tips from your channel and I have to thank you so much for the help taken my garden especially my desert plants to the next level.lol please keep up the awesome work love.i sawanother video I do believe it's your channel you in a partner about being telepathic. I did choose the star. I've known since I've been young that I have these abilities the same with gardening my father and grandfather started me in the gardenvery young. If I had my way I would've started a few years before they had let me lend a hand..we'll have a wonderful day.by for now.

Hi Lynn💚!!! I wasn't sure how to get you attention for a question I have about Easter cactus!:I repotted some of my Christmas cactus today and I actually grouped 2 medium plants I've grown over the past few years with a hand ful of segments. They came from my Mom's cactus,shes96 and the cactus is approximately 40 yrs old. Anyhow ,I didn't water it ,I misted it for now. My real question is where the heck are the Easter cactus 🌵 in the stores?! And did I goof by grouping them?.💚 Your the best and most reliable person with all your help. I don't do Facebook or Twitter; so I'm hoping you see this 💚👍💕

Gorgeous! I subscribed so I can enjoy your videos from Ireland

You and your plant and your backyard and your video are beautiful

WOW im power watching all your videos!!! LOVE your energy!!

Loved the video very informative, and love your place as well. Take care my friend.

Just great osm 👏👏👏👌👌👌

Excellent video, thanks very much!!!

oohh! im proud to watch your video

Who wouldn't give you a like! Well done. :)

Thank you, very informative! Love from New Zealand

Oh I would love a couple of branches off this one Lyn. X

Hi gorgeous girl, excellent tips! Mum has a very elderly Christmas cactus ( I have many cuttings from her original) and has been wanting advice on re-potting. I will be going out to buy orchid compost tomorrow!xxxxhugslovesmiles Tish

Hi edagdwg thanks for sharing love this plant thanks for sharing Linda j ☮️❤️ ❤️💯 💯

Thanks for your video...very good! I have many different varieties of Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter cactus but have never heard of using Orchid Mix. I have many orchids so I will give it a try the next time I repot my Schlumbergera!! Thanks!!!

Great video & information!!! Thank you so much!!! Great tips, tomorrow I will go to the garden store & purchase orchid compost. Hey everyone watch this video on how to repot your Christmas or Thanksgiving Cactus.

Thank you honey!!❤🐱😁

thank you so much I totally like what I saw in the video. again thantks for the help....yeeeey

What a fantastic video Lyn! Your cactus is so healthy and huge lol. I've seen these repotted so many different ways, but this one is really close to the way I do things. Thanks for sharing this with us. She looks absolutely beautiful in her new pot!💕 I have to repot my mother plant, she's gotten so big over the past yr and a half. What's your recommendation on repotting.. before or after blooming? Once every 2 to 3 yrs? Just curious because every one does things a little different. I guess it all depends on how fast she grows🙄.. What type of lighting situation do you have her in too? I see people growing her in a little sunlight, to a lot of sunlight, to just bright in-direct light lol. Yours looks so happy so I was just curious 😊 Thanks for sharing Lyn! It's always so great to see you and your beautiful collection of cacti! I can't wait to have a polytunnel, filled with so many different varieties of plants like you lol.. I'm getting there 🤗🦋 Have a beautiful day!

I love them

Nice one i really want a chistmas cacti ill be on the look out love your idea useing the cardboard. Keep it up

Thanks Lyn!♥ This is a great video. I'll have to see if you have any videos on repotting spiny cacti. I have wondered your procedure for that! You christmas cactus is so big and beautiful!!!!!♥♥♥♥♥ XXXX

Well I repotted my cactus ,which by the look of it has not been repotted in a long ,long time and I watered mine.

That's a very healthy plant it's gorgeous. I have two small ones in different colours would you recommend poting the two together thanks

I love watching your videos, very informative. Well done! Da iawn! I’m from Ammanford, you have told me your family from Rhondda Valley. Just an hour from here 😊

I got a cacti like that for Christmas. it's flowers are red and pink .

Hi my dear, great video. Did you say that you used orchid mix... I grow orchids where I live. I have a coarse bark mix will that suffice? I love your spirit that’s why I have subscribed to your channel. You bring in the sunshine.🤗 🐝🌻

Just found this video and I'm so happy I did! I just recently got REALLY into orchids and I'm thrilled to learn my other faithful plant is also epiphytic!! I just wish my little christmas cactus friend was doing better. How do you get yours to look so wonderfully bushy and tall!? Do you trim them? Also, is a 20-10-20 fertilizer ok to use on these guys? Thanks in advance!

Nice one thank you.

Thanks for a happy repotting. Could that plant have been divided? My mother in law has one that is huge and I could divide hers and get one for my green room.

Super helpful, thank you.

Thankyou for sharing

Great job

Perfect :D Beautiful girl and chrismas cactus :3

My cactus is limp and soil looks poor and dry...should I report it and give fresh soil or try and nurture it a bit so it’s stronger for repotting?

Your video got me inspired,so I guess it's time to repot my small christmas cactus. It's much, much smaller then yours, but it has been in a very small pot for ages. It's probably too small for it now. I guess it will do ok if I put it in a clay pot, with a mix of pine bark and peat?

Enjoyed this thank you for the tips lots of good information :) - Ruthie

Hi, Unfortunately I watched your video after I repotted my Christmas cactus. I hope I don't lose the plant because I loosened the root ball alot. We will have to wait and see.

Excellent.

Loved it. Thank you.

Well Done! I enjoyed this video! Keep up the great work Lyn! :-) XXX

The video was help

Seeing those thick bottoms of the stems encourages me to leave mine all alone. They are still dark green

❤❤ Love your holiday cacti... And I think I've told you this before, but I looove your accent. You don't sell rooted plants by any chance (And ship to the US), do you?

I live in Michigan and I’m wondering what season to transplant a Christmas Cactus? I heard in the Spring.

I have two and they've been limp for a few months, should I repot soon or wait? Their flower buds are coming out, so I thinj they're still doing okay

Omg Lyn hah so old video gosh I remember seeing this plant and thinking I wish I had one that large hah ,, orchid compost really ? I just use normal potting pic

Is there a way to split this plant into half? I have a plant that is too big for a big pot...

...and shall I use a cactus soil mix?

hi, do i have to let the cuttings to dry for a day before i put them in the soil? thanks

Why my Christmas cactus fall off? Then I put it back in soil like you show but it wouldn’t grow root otherwise it dried out the part under the soil. Is that too much water? Or something wrong from the soil?

I have one in the same pot for 20 years. It blooms tons of flowers each year. I am afraid to transplant it 🤯

I have 3- 4” Easter cactus- can I plant them all in one pot to make one larger pot? What size pot would you recommend?

Hello! I recently repotted my Christmas cactus 🌵 into a plastic self watering planter. I haven't watered it because it was damp when I repotted it into the new pot a week ago. Should I water from the bottom?💚🌵? Thanks!

Hi there. I have a Christmas Cactus and its leaves have recently started to shrivel up and drop off the plant. I have had it for a few years and this is the first time this has happened. Could you give me any tips on how I can prevent this getting any worse? Thanks in advance, Ray.

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I have a Christmas cactus that has be very neglected. It is in a 12" pot that I am sure it is root bound and I think the I need to change all the dirt due to bugs. If I take all the dirt out can I put i back in a 12" pot or should I try to find a bigger pot and leave the dirt?

I have a question, I have both desert cactus and jungle cactus in the same room. I think the jungle cactus needs more humidity. If I put a humidifier in my room to increase the humidity, will the desert cactus be ok?

Maybe you can help? I inherited an indoor Christmas cactus, at least 30 years old, my grandmother’s. It’s in a large, wide pot with only two real “stem” type things, and they go out opposite from one another and are very long. It desperately needs new soil as it has been over-watered, but I’m new to caring for plants and afraid of what the roots may look like. Also I know I can re-plant the individual pieces, but what about the thick brown stem - can it be trimmed back? At the recommendation of the garden specialist I got special soil and plant food. I’m just scouring the internet looking for help, but mine looks so different from those I see online!

Can you re-pot this particular type of cactus in the colder months & will the small leaves that fall off the cacti still grow when you place them back in the pot after a day or so?...Thank you so much for posting this video....

When you get it from nursery it has artificial soil...we should remove that before repotting

my cactus broke at the stem really big piece can i cut off dried section let new piece dry then put back in same pot vicky

Here is a video on how to re pot a Christmas or Easter cactus :-) XXXXXX

Do you completely repot the entire plant on a Orchid soil mix or just at the bottom? Like rocks then orchid mix them plant then top with regular soil?

Hello! Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱 Thank you for your video. I was wondering how did you get those stems? They are so thick. Mine in growing so thin and the leaves are hanging from the side of the pot. I hope you can give me some advice. Thank you very much, take care.

You should have buried some African fire ant eggs in the pot first..When they hatch, they help you carry stuff in the garden and keep away anything that will attack your cactus..They are also good company on the long winter nights...🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🕷🕷🕸🕸🐝🐝🐜🐜🐜🐜🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️👽👽🐍

Hi there..i have 2 questions for you plz..1st one is can you pollinate same colour variety of Christmas cactus to make seeds or does it have to be 2 different flower colours?2nd question is can you pollinate an easter cactus with a Christmas cactus to make seeds..will it work?Thank you so much I tried last yr to pollinate some but it didn't work out..i hope this yr I will be successful..i forget if I pollinated 2 of the same colour or 2 different colours but it didn't work out..maybe the hybrid ones now don't make seeds..im not sure

Hey Lyn, how are you? I just bought a christmas cactus and i was wondering if it is safe to use a cactus soil. I noticed in your video you used a Orchid soil.Is it better to use?