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Start Christmas Cactus for Next Year's Gifts

It is a little too late for this holiday season but you can get started for next year. I was in a store the other day and glanced at the price of their Christmas Cactus. To pay $134.00 for a gift that will cost me max $2.00 is crazy. If you start now, you can save.

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Take a piece of your own Christmas cactus and put it in a small pot (2 inch) with good potting soil. As the year goes on fertilize with liquid fertilizer once a month. Once it starts growing, repot to 3 inch and so on, but remember they do better root bound. By the holidays next year, you should have a good size plant(s) to give as gifts.

By Kathy Ressler from Sunny Florida

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December 17, 20090 found this helpful

$134.00 for a Christmas Catus? How many are you buying? Home Depot has them dirt cheap, Good idea to propagate your own.

 

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November 18, 20100 found this helpful

I agree with Jeannette! How many and where are you buying your plants? Even at our most expensive local florists, I've never seen one that expensive!

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I do appreciate the tips on propagating my own though, and plan to buy one this year as soon as they come out here and trying it.

 

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November 18, 20100 found this helpful

The price of $134.00 could have been a typo!

 
November 18, 20100 found this helpful

I am thinking the $134 was a typo as well. Even for a really large nice one it is only $20.

They are easy to start just make sure the pieces are at least 4 "segments" long and it would be better to put them in a clear cup/jar in water in a sunny warm spot to start growing roots before you pot them, imho.

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When the roots are at least an inch long and about the diameter of angel hair pasta it would be a good time to plant.

 

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