{"id":8159,"date":"2018-12-12T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2024-11-13T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:06:31","slug":"how-to-propagate-a-christmas-cactus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2018\/12\/how-to-propagate-a-christmas-cactus.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Propagate a Christmas Cactus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Learning how to propagate a Christmas cactus<\/a> is easy and fun. I’ve put together this article plus a video to show you how!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A quick note<\/em><\/strong>: In North America, and especially the United States, most people refer to this plant as “Christmas cactus.” There is also a variety called ‘Thanksgiving cactus’. The leaves are slightly different, as is the blooming time (November vs. December for most areas of North America.) Because so many people refer to all of these plants as “Christmas cactus” that is the term I will use. However, my pictures may reflect either the Thanksgiving bloomer or the Christmas one. Let’s just call them “Holiday” cacti!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Propagate Christmas Cactus<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera <\/em>bridgesii) offers house plant lovers a long-lived plant that blooms profusely every year.  Propagation by cutting enables the Christmas cactus<\/a> owner to spread the holiday joy by growing multiple cuttings easily. Within a year of starting two little segments that had fallen off of the parent plant, I had blooms. Talk about a happy plant!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’d prefer the instructions to propagate Christmas cactus as a video, I’ve created a little video, here, that walks you through the steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n