Grudnik can bloom twice a year: in winter and spring. Then we must provide it with appropriate conditions to produce flowers. Fertilizing the plant is important, as it is necessary for abundant flowering. You don’t have to run to the garden store for fertilizer. Use what you already have at home.
After winter flowering, the plant goes dormant and then prepares to release flowers in spring. So how to take care of it during this time?
Above all let’s move the plant to a bright position with scattered sunlight. Therefore, the best option will be the windowsill of the eastern window.
Before spring flowering, we gradually increase the watering of the specimenusing water at room temperature. Cold tap water may cause buds to fall off.
To encourage your Christmas cactus to produce flowers in spring, we remove all faded buds from itso that it does not waste energy on producing seeds.
We also recommend making gentle cuts to shorten the shoots in places where the segments connect. We use sharp, disinfected scissors for this procedure.
You can also pinch off the shoots at the junctions of flat, leaf-like segments – remove one or two at the ends of each twig. This way we will stimulate the plant to branch.
Let’s not forget about fertilization. In this case, we use fertilizers for cacti and succulents. We can also prepare a natural conditioner from products we already have at home.
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We can make a natural conditioner for the beetroot from banana peels or activated carbon. Both products improve soil quality, have a positive effect on the growth of potted plants and stimulate flowering. So how to make such homemade fertilizers?
- Banana peel conditioner
For starters pour warm water over 3 banana peels and set aside for 2 days. After this time, we remove the waste and dilute the resulting liquid with water in a 1:1 ratio. Water the specimen with the natural conditioner prepared in this way once a month.
- Activated carbon conditioner
In this case just dissolve 1 tablet of activated carbon in 0.5 l of water. We also fertilize the Christmas cactus with this solution once a month. This fertilizer is also suitable for .
