These are some of my favorite plants. I have several of them now. I trim them back every couple years and will use some of the clippings to start new plants. When I first started growing these plants, I was lucky if they would bloom. Back then I was moving about once a year. I have been in this house now 10 years and have noticed that a majority of them now bloom every year. Most are indoor plants, but some I do move out to the sun room during the summer months. I found this year that I have an “Easter” variety. I have pink, white and red flowing plants at this time. I just ordered seeds for a plant that will produce blue flowers. I have several diffent varieties of plants. I seldom buy plants anymore. I will usually ask friends if I can have a small clipping of one of their plants. I have also started buying plants from satires that are on the “clearance” rack. The plants are ideally mostly dead withe very little slice growth. I will take the plant home and trim off all the dead growth and replant if needed. It usually takes a little time and patience, but I can nurse the plant back to a health growing plant at a fraction of the cost of fully grown plants. I will also do the same with outdoor plants.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience of growing these amazing plants :-D thanks so much for your fantastic comment and for watching and sending you tons of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a WONDERFUL Wednesday ahead XXXXXXXX
Lovely little cuties Lyn! You will surely have new plants from this old amazing Schlumbergera! Lovely coloured flowers! Thanks Lyn for showing us the update of these seedlings! Sending you Lyn and Hans lots of love and happiness from Malta to Ireland! Have an amazing afternoon!
So happy you love these little Schlumbergera cuties Sylvia :-D and the wonderful news is these seedlings are growing really amazing, and have lots of new little leaves now, I am so looking forward to seeing the flowers on these in the future :-D thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a sunny Tuesday XXXX
Lyn those are like the cutest seedlings I have ever seen!! They are like a miniature replica of the big guy - all the little pointy ends and everything!
haha they are so cute indeed hahaha :-D thanks so much Iza for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle and HAPPY HOLIDAYS XXXXX
They are so cute haha :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXXX
Amazing! How cute are they... Even better that you’re spreading the genes of this venerable plant. 😻. Wishing you & Hans all the best for the new year.
haha so true Carol they are such cuties :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and Hans and I are sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle and HAPPY HOLIDAYS XXXXX
haha so happy you loved the mention and these seedlings truly are so adorable haha :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle and HAPPY HOLIDAYS XXXXX
haha they are so cute indeed :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle and HAPPY HOLIDAYS XXXXX
wow so jealous of your old caacti! jsut getting into succulents myself and expecting my first xmas cactus cuttings tomorrow :D cant wait to plant them along with some panda plant I am definitely going to try collect seeds from them when they flower :3
Thats fantastic news you are getting into Succulents and have some Xmas Cactus cuttings arriving, growing these incredible plants is so much fun and very rewarding to do, thank you so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday ahead XXXX
Thats fantastic news you are pollinating your flowers too and making videos too :-D its so much fun to grow from seed :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending tons of love and happiness and PLANT POWER your way for a wonderful Wednesday XXXXXX
haha so true Eileen :-D they are soooo ADORABLE :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle and HAPPY HOLIDAYS XXXXX
Oh my goodness, so cute! They are pretty big for just having been started in June! Beautiful babies! It’s amazing how old the mother plant is! I just cross pollinated two different colors, I’ve got my fingers crossed! 🌵🌱😍
Hi. I have learned so much from watching your videos today I pollutant my Christmas cactus cross my fingers hope I get some seed.Thank you so much for all that you do.
Thats so wonderful and good luck with the polliantion :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle and HAPPY HOLIDAYS XXXXX
That's amazing! I harvested 2 seed pods this year by following your diections but haven't sown the seed yet because I didn't know how long it would take. Now that I've seen yours, I think I'll sow them in the spring and cross pollinate more now. Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas!🎄🎅
My mom has an old girl is well.... She looks a lot like yours I know she was my grandmother's... She definitely needs a lot of help she got left out in the rain all summer and got waterlogged..... When I touched her one of our segments fell off and I picked it up and my mom said I can have it so I'm currently trying to propagate from that and hopefully I can make plant for myself 🤞
What type of soil do you use for starting the christmas cactus seeds? Do you also use the same soil for rooting cuttings as well? I have found that many of the cactus soils still seem a bit heavy and don’t drain quite as well, maybe I need to amend the soil with perlite, suggestions? Love your channel with helpful tips and tricks for my plants!
Hi Billie :-D I use a soil mix of loam and horticultural sand and perlite at 3 equal parts, but you can use normal cactus soil and add extra perlite for drainage and aeriation, I use the same soil for rooting the cuttings too, so happy you enjoy my channel and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
Hi! What a cool success - they are so cute! I have 4 seed pods on 2 plants that I used your advice in your vid back then - they had a date haha. My question is this... How long do I leave them on the plant, or wait til they fall off? It seems like they have been on them over a year now - lol i am a bad judge of time though. at least a year [maybe]. i dont trust my memory 😀
I got a Venus Fly Trap growing kit. It said that I had to put the seeds inside of the “mini-greenhouse” and leave them in the fridge for six weeks. Do I have to do this? Will they still germinate even if I don’t do this?
Hi there :-D because I have only sown seeds direct from my own plants after harvesting I have not had to put them in the fridge before but some growers do recommend that you do this if you purchase seeds, I dont think it is 100% necessary but giving them the cold treatment does help to stratify the seeds and helps encourage germination, and I think it would be best to definitely follow what it says on the growing kit and put them in the fridge for six weeks first XXXXX
My true Christmas cactus i started from cuttings from my grandma's true Christmas cactus it's around 65-70 years old also it has very thick Woody stems also mine is bout 5 years old this is it's 2nd time flowering
haha the seedlings are so cute and its going to be amazing to see the colour of the flowers on these when they flower :-D yes I have a pink flowering Schlumbergera with white in the middle but its a brighter pink, :-D Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching dear Olga and Hans and I are sending you an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to Greece XXXXX
Those little seedlings are SO cute! I have 3 questions: 1.Will you plant them separately? 2.How big do you allow them to get before you move them to a new home? 3. I noticed a reddish brown segment on you old schlumberge in the lower left corner of the video. I've seen that before on other Christmas cactus that I've had too. Is that a dying segment? or what is going on that causes that?
Hi Lynn how are your seedlings doing now? I am so excited that I have germination. They are tiny but growing well inside a mini propagator, but I am anxious to keep them happy and alive😅
Thats wonderful news that you have germinated your Schlumbergera seedlings :-D mine are growing very well and I keep them well watered at this time of year :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Friday XXXXX
haha they are cute indeed :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle and Happy Holidays to you XXXXX
I cross polinated 4 christmas cacti and they all produced seed. So cute. I also have a seedpod on my schlumbergera x exotica (rhipsalidopsis) which I cross pollinated with a schlumbergera truncata. I'm very curious how the seedlings will turn out and if the flowers can be multicoloured or just 1 colour. Also I don't know when the seedpod is ripe.
Thats fantastic news you have seed Barbara :-D its so much fun to get seeds from our own plants and extra special too :-D and WOW thats AMAZING you have seed from your S. exotica and truncata so special :-D here is a link to a video I have made on when to tell when the seedpod is ripe and ready for harvesting :-D I hope it helps
Hi there :-D they can take a very long time to get from seed to flowering and about 5-8 years from seedling to full growth to get mature enough to flower, but it will be very rewarding when they do :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a marvellous Monday XXXX
Hi Bill :-D the good news is Cactus seeds can keep for several years if they are stored in a cool and dry environment away from heat and damp, but they are at their most viable if sown within the first year as the germination rates start to decline the longer they are kept, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful plant powered Sunday XXXX
Hi - my seed pod has been on the plant for almost 1.5 years now, there's still no sign of it going squishy nor does it feel like its ready to be pulled off. Is this normal or do you think I should just go ahead and pull it off?
Hi paul if it feels not ready to harvest you would v=be safe to leave the seed pod on :-D here is a link to a video on how to now when to harvest the seeds
Hi there :-D Yes you can still propagate the woody stems but they are much harder to get to root than the stem segments, and its much more successful with the stem segments, but if you have woody stems you can still try to propagate them, I have had success with rooting both :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Saturday today XXXXX
Hi there :-D from seed these cacti can take many years to flower but usually from 5 years onwards, thanks so much for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX
How are these seedlings doing now? I inherited my mom's old Easter cactus, and I found a few seed pods on it. After watching your video, I decided to see if there were any seeds in it, and there were! Anyway, I was wondering if you had an update. Thanks. :)
Thanks so much :-D these little seedlings came down with what looks like a spider mite attack although I could not see any pests through the strong lens, but thankfully they are making a really good recovery now and I will make another update on them in the next couple of weeks :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle XXXX
The good news is I have seed pods forming on my very old truncata from the pollination and although it could be a few months before the seeds are ready to harvest I will be very happy to send you seeds when I harvest the pods :-D its so much fun to sow these cuties from seed :-D XXXXXX
Suzanne here, i have the absolute worst luck proprogating cc or tc cactus, i have tried every way on earth and watched thousands of vidoes, and not one time have i ever had one successfully GROW, i have no clue what i am doing wrong, at all, the older plants i do fine with, just NOT with cutttings unless i grow them in water, then once i put them in soil, they always shrivel and DIE, i dont get it, i been trying 40 years and still have not had one live, so this year i am doing them in orchid bark and cactus mix only, to see if that will work, and not have them shrivel and die, ugh, so i just keep buying more plants and let them grow , if i can keep them alive, i have baout 50 plants doing fine, but at some point bloom or not, they will shrivel, ugh, how can i stop that shriveling from happening??? i dont over water or under water and pot them in clay pots, so i dont get it , ughhhhhh
Hi Ben :-D I haven't sown any buckleyi seed and my buckleyi's are still in bud and taking ages to flower haha but looking forward to pollinating the flowers when they open it would be fantastic to get seeds from these stunners haha :-D thanks so much Ben for al your support and amazing comments and hope you are having a FAB Xmas so far :-D XXXXXX
