Christmas cacti require 12 hours of darkness for about eight weeks to form flower buds for holiday blooming. Ideal temperature conditions for flowering are 65°F to 70°F during the day and 55°F to 65°F ...

Cover or move your plants into a dark location for 14 hours each night. This treatment is needed to initiate the flowering in ...

The holidays will be here before you know it, and that means time together with family and friends, beautiful decorations, delicious food, and (hopefully) a Christmas cactus in full bloom. Encouraging ...

The Christmas cactus is a fascinating plant that looks little like its namesake—the cactus—actually hailing from the Brazilian rainforest rather than the desert. However, Christmas cactus is in fact a ...

A lost leaf or two isn't unusual for a Christmas cactus in October but it's a distress signal you can't afford to ignore.

Almost every grocery store or big box home store we walk into right now has a rack of what most people call Christmas cactus. But is it really a Christmas cactus or is it a Thanksgiving cactus? There ...

Colorful poinsettias and flowering Thanksgiving or Christmas cactus fill garden centers and homes during the holiday season. If you saved your plants from last year, it is time to get ...

Q: I received a so-called Christmas cactus as a holiday gift a little over two years ago (see reader’s photo). It was in full bloom when I received it. The following year, it did not bloom at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Christmas cactus at Holy Cross Parish in Green Bay is just beginning to bloom. The plant, grown from a cutting in the 1930s, ...