Strange that this Christmas Cactus does so well when we bring it in. It is negleted for 9 months of the year, stuck in the back of the greenhouse and then we get this. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
If you want your Christmas cactus to bloom at or near Christmas, leave it outside until jest before a frost.
That is a lovely show for Christmas time, very nice to have such a nice plant inside and looking so good.
I have two that are flowering just now too. I keep them in all year round on a cold windowsill and they never disappoint me.
I keep mine indoors. They are only a couple of years old. And not one single sign of a bloom. They are in a west-facing window. I wonder if I should let them live outdoors next year. Sure would be nice to have at least one bloom. And if they ever looked as good as Kildales... I'd be over the moon!
I've got a white one blooming now but only 2 buds on the pink one. Same growing conditions. Yours is beautiful, Kildale.
Mine spend most of their lives on a shelf in front of a north window in my craft room. That way they get the dark hours they need for setting buds and in previous years they have bloomed just fine. I think mine are pot bound, repotting them was on my list of summer projects...just another thing that was forgotten during my summer experiences. I can't put them outside because of gnats, I don't want them setting up housekeeping in the soil of a plant that is coming inside for the winter.
