Fertilizing Tips for Christmas Cactus: Grow It This Way for More New Leaves and Hundreds of Blooms in Autumn

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What Fertilizer to Feed a Christmas Cactus? Let's Talk About How to Fertilize a Christmas Cactus Through All Four Seasons. To Grow a Christmas Cactus Well, Fertilizer Is Everything. Fertilize This Way and New Leaves Will Grow Abundantly, With Hundreds of Blooms in Autumn

During the Christmas Cactus's growing season, that is, the season when it grows leaves, the fertilizer you give it should be one based mainly on nitrogen and potassium. A fertilizer based mainly on nitrogen and potassium does not mean using plain nitrogen fertilizer or plain potassium fertilizer. Plain nitrogen fertilizer and plain potassium fertilizer basically contain no other nutrients. "Mainly nitrogen and potassium" means the ratio of nitrogen to potassium is relatively high, while other nutrient components are also present. During the growing season, using a high-nitrogen, high-potassium fertilizer for it can promote thicker and more abundant leaf growth. Of course, if you don't have a high-nitrogen, high-potassium fertilizer on hand, you can also give it a multi-element mixed fertilizer, that is, the commonly used compound fertilizer for flowers, which also works. This element blend is balanced, containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. It also works very well for leaf growth. It is just slightly inferior to a high-nitrogen, high-potassium fertilizer.

Do not fertilize in summer, because once summer temperatures exceed 30-odd degrees Celsius, it will stop growing. At this time its roots cannot absorb nutrients well, and if you fertilize it, you will only burn its roots, causing its leaves to rot and so on.

When autumn arrives and we want to fertilize the Christmas Cactus, first, after getting through the hot summer and just finishing the dormant period, when we start using fertilizer on it, the first time we should use a multi-element mixed fertilizer to give it a balanced nutrient boost first. Because the temperature difference and light in autumn are suitable for the Christmas Cactus to produce flower buds, at this time the fertilizer we give it should be one based mainly on phosphorus and potassium. That is, monopotassium phosphate, three times a month, at ten-day intervals, at a dilution ratio of 1:1000. Watering it on or spraying the leaves are both fine. Continue until a large number of flower buds appear. Once they grow to the size of mung beans, stop fertilizing and simply wait quietly for them to bloom.

After the flower buds drop, that is, by the time spring arrives, the first time you fertilize it you must use a multi-element mixed fertilizer, because blooming consumes a lot of nutrients. After using it once, it will enter a dormant period, and for about a month it will stop growing. Whenever you see new leaves emerging from the leaves, begin the first cycle again with a high-nitrogen, high-potassium fertilizer.

The entire year's fertilizing process for growing a Christmas Cactus follows this principle. If you fertilize properly and control it well, it will grow very well. When it blooms in winter, it will produce especially many flowers. Really, if it is a grafted Christmas Cactus, blooming several hundred or even several thousand flowers at once is no problem at all.

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