Fertilize your Christmas cactus like this, and side shoots will sprout all over the pot

The Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera) is clean and neat, with layers upon layers of segments, making it a very popular flowering plant. Recently, a friend reported that their Christmas cactus is growing shoots at the top, so what exactly is going on? The Christmas cactus grows new segments starting from the top, and there are also growth points on the sides.

But there are relatively few of them, so the chance of side shoots appearing is very small. However, if you use more nitrogen fertilizer, it will also grow a great many of them, because nitrogen fertilizer promotes the growth of leaves and branches; using nitrogen fertilizer can make it grow enough segments.

Then it grows quickly, producing enough segments. There is another method: once the new segments grow out from the top, just pinch them off directly, as many times as needed, and it will start looking for growth points on the sides, but this method wastes time.

It is not only sufficient fertilizer that is the key to promoting shoots. In fact, after keeping a Christmas cactus for a period of time, it grows segments from the top; after a period of time, it will also grow segments from the sides. This method usually takes a long time, waiting for the previous segments to age and harden before it gradually grows side segments outward.

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