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I cannot keep my Easter Cactus (Rhipsalidopsis) alive--Help please?

I grow many varieties of cactus and succulent very successfully,

including several Christmas Cactus. Every year I purchase a new

healthy Easter Cactus, and every year after flowering it slowly

slips away. As I write this year's unfortunate has only one branch

left ...

Update:

Thankyou Susie C for your answer, however, as I stated, it is only the Easter Cactus variety with which I continually experience disappointment. All my Christmas cactus and other varieties have continued for years to be healthy, flowering regularly etc.

It is not a watering problem--could it be

that the Easter cactus are forced into bloom each year to coincide with the

changing date of Easter, and this is too much for them?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Easter cactus as well as Christmas cactus need to be kept on the dry side after flowering.

    See source for more info.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Care of Your Cactus Potted flowers in maximum situations cactus will do nicely in pots as long as you undergo in strategies 3 issues. nutrition, mild, water. nutrition once you deliver the plant homestead most of the time that's in a small pot and it probable has grown there for an prolonged time, meaning it has used up maximum of all the nutrition interior the soil. So think of roughly repotting and installation feeding application. maximum cactus like each small feeding, extra constructive than one great feeding. i like a time launch form interior the spring and this might feed the plant for 6 or extra months. any incorrect way is to furnish the flowers nutrition 3 time a 365 days (spring, summer season, fall)with a dilute answer of plant nutrition like (5-10-5). this could desire to do them nicely for the 365 days. mild A potted cactus will stay and flower interior the homestead if given adequate mild, place the plant close to a bright lighted window, the place it is going to get carry of mild most of the day. on the patio is different place the cactus in a partly shaded section till it become accustom to the sunlight. in no way deliver the cactus homestead and place it interior the bright sunlight, cactus sunlight burn merely like human beings. Water Cactus in pots require extra care in watering than interior the floor. interior the turning out to be era which may be spring & summer season or fall & wintry climate. counting on the place they arrive from, south u . s . a . or north u . s . a ., the plant should not be allowed to pass thoroughly dry, merely moist. interior the homestead watering could desire to be as low as as quickly as a month watching the dryness of the homestead. yet outdoors as much as each 2 or 3 days. Take a wood pencil or dow rod and place it down contained in the direction of the soil to the backside of the pot, whilst bumped off, if damp soil is on it do not water. After some attempt's you will study whilst to water. Potting blend for San Antonio section encompass a million section potting blend (not soil) a million section washed sand a million section direction gravel or pumas

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