How can Christmas cactus and amaryllis bloom 3 or 4 times a year?

Grow Christmas cactus this way and it can bloom 2 or 3 times a year!

In most gardeners' understanding, Christmas cactus only blooms in winter and spring. In fact, as long as you master the techniques for forcing blooms, Christmas cactus can bloom 2-3 times a year.

1. Create a short-day environment

Christmas cactus is a short-day plant. To make it bloom, you need to artificially create a short-day environment. Give it 8 hours of scattered light each day, while ensuring it spends 14 hours a day in complete darkness.

2. Do not move it frequently

Christmas cactus is a phototropic plant. During the bud-forming period, do not move it casually, otherwise the buds will easily drop and flowering will be affected.

3. Supplement fertilizer in time

It is now autumn, and Christmas cactus has basically passed its dormancy period, so you can apply some compound fertilizer to the soil. By late autumn, start applying phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, such as Huaduoduo No. 2, as a root drench to promote bud formation.

Grow clivia this way, and blooming 3 times in a row is no problem!

To make clivia bloom, first make sure the clivia has reached 4 years of flowering age, or has already grown 11 leaves. If these conditions are met but it still does not bloom, then you can start with the following aspects.

1. Do not repot frequently

Unless necessary, do not repot frequently, and the pot for growing clivia should not be too large. Only a smaller pot can constrict the roots and promote flowering. Before bud formation, also do not move the pot frequently, as this easily causes bud drop.

2. Supplement fertilizer in time

If clivia is to bloom multiple times, the amount of fertilizer must be increased. During the growing period, apply decomposed cake fertilizer water once every half month, and switch to a high-phosphorus, high-potassium fertilizer about 20 days before the flowering period.

3. Increase the temperature difference and use low temperatures to promote flowering

Clivia basically enters dormancy above 25°C, and flowering is impossible. To promote bud formation in clivia, artificially create a low-temperature environment while increasing the temperature difference. You can place it on a south-facing balcony during the day and in a cool north-facing balcony or outside the corridor at night.

4. Cut off the flower stalk after flowering

After the flowers fade, cut off the flower stalk in time. When cutting, the closer to the ground the better, to prevent the clivia from forming seed pods and setting seeds.

Grow amaryllis this way, and it will bloom nonstop all year round!

Most gardeners' amaryllis generally blooms at most twice a year, but as long as you learn Huahua's method, blooming three times a year is no problem!

1. Low-temperature cold storage

After the flowers fade in June, dig out the bulbs, cut off the spent flower stalks and leaves, dry them in the sun for half a day, and then put them in the refrigerator for cold storage.

2. Plant after cold storage

After half a month of cold storage, take them out and plant them, apply compound fertilizer once, and then apply phosphorus and potassium fertilizer once every 10 days. Generally, they can bloom again in about two months.

3. Water control treatment

If you want amaryllis to bloom again in winter and spring, start controlling water in early October, with the water control period lasting about 15 days.

4. Low-temperature environment

After water control, place the amaryllis in a low-temperature environment, such as a corridor or basement. Move it back indoors in December, and it will basically sprout flower scapes by mid-month and bloom by the end of the month.