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Graft Christmas cactus onto cactus and one pot can burst out with 200 flowers

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Christmas cactus is a common flowering plant that can bloom every year in October. Now is a good time to grow Christmas cactus, and by winter the Christmas cactus can bloom well. When caring for Christmas cactus, flower lovers must be careful, as this can prevent Christmas...

Christmas cactus is a common flowering plant that can bloom every year in October. Now is a good time to grow Christmas cactus, and by winter the Christmas cactus can bloom well. When caring for Christmas cactus, flower lovers must be careful, as this can prevent yellow leaves and fallen flowers on the Christmas cactus. Flower lovers can also master the grafting method, so the Christmas cactus can reproduce more and bloom more beautifully.

How to graft Christmas cactus

Grafting Christmas cactus onto cactus is very simple. You only need to cut the tail branch of the Christmas cactus into a duck-bill shape, then make a vertical cut on the top of the cactus, with the cut width slightly larger than the cut surface of the scion. Then quickly insert the Christmas cactus into the cactus rootstock, and fix it with a clothespin. In about 2 weeks it will survive, and then the Christmas cactus will be grafted successfully.

Then when grafting Christmas cactus, pay attention to a few issues. Grafting can be done every year in September-October. If you water and fertilize during this period, the survival rate will be very high, but be careful not to fertilize immediately after grafting, as this will cause the Christmas cactus to die.

After the Christmas cactus grafting is completed, you can make some wire supports and use them to secure it for one month, and understand the growth habits of the Christmas cactus, letting the Christmas cactus grow in a humid air environment, keeping the soil loose, and then preparing soil with good air permeability, so the Christmas cactus can bloom more beautifully.

When caring for Christmas cactus normally, pay attention to watering and fertilizing. You can apply soybean fertilizer and cake fertilizer, so many flower buds will sprout on the Christmas cactus, and when the Christmas cactus reaches its growth period, it can grow stronger.

Flower lovers now have some understanding of the grafting techniques for Christmas cactus, right? Flower lovers can normally grow one or two pots of cactus, so that Christmas cactus grafting can be carried out. Only by grafting onto cactus can Christmas cactus grow more beautifully and quickly fill the pot.




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