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- Repotting Christmas Cactus - How often is repotting necessary?
- Repot the Christmas cactus once a year
- This is repotting
- Repot the Christmas cactus immediately after purchase?
- The right pot and suitable substrate
- Do not fertilize after repotting!
- Tips
The Christmas cactus can be repotted every year
Repotting Christmas Cactus - How often is repotting necessary?
The Christmas cactus can be quite fast with good care. For the roots to have enough space, you need to repot it occasionally. Experienced gardeners even repot it every year and thus do without fertilizer.
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At the latest, if the old pot for the Christmas cactus has become too small, you should repot it into a larger planter. You can tell by the fact that the first roots stick out from the vent hole.
Experts even recommend replanting Christmas cacti every year and giving them fresh substrate. Of course, a larger pot is not necessary every year because the root ball remains comparatively small.
The right time to repot a Christmas cactus is right after flowering. Just before flowering and during flowering you should never expose it to the stress of potting.
This is repotting
Repot the Christmas cactus immediately after purchase?
Often, the substrate of freshly purchased Christmas cactus is too moist, too dense or too rich in nutrients. It can be seen that the earth is too moist because the leaves of the Christmas cactus hang limp.
It makes sense in this case to repot it immediately into fresh, suitable substrate. However, this is only possible if no flower buds have formed.
If flower buds are already visible, do not water the Christmas cactus at first and only sparingly later so that the root ball can dry off.
The right pot and suitable substrate
The pot must have sufficient drainage hole to drain irrigation water or rainwater. Good is a drain in the bottom of the pot to avoid waterlogging.
The substrate is cactus or garden soil, which has been loosened up with sand and gravel.
Do not fertilize after repotting!
After repotting, do not fertilize a Christmas cactus for a year. Otherwise, you will overgrow the cactus so that it will come in at worst.
Tips
The Christmas cactus does not just cut a good figure in the flower pot. Even in hanging baskets he looks very decorative by its drooping leaves.