Decembrist flower, care and reproduction: what period is favorable for the rooting of Schlumberger, what are the methods of breeding zygocactus and what to do if it does not take root?

Sooner or later, everyone who grows a Schlumberger at home has a desire to propagate this beautiful plant. The most common way of reproduction of the Decembrist is vegetative, by cuttings. This method is popular for its simplicity and high rooting rate.

A stalk is the part of a plant that is used for vegetative propagation. After planting in the substrate, the cutting develops roots and buds and grows into a new plant. Cutting in all varieties of the Decembrist is the same.

Breeding methods of the Decembrist

Decembrist (Schlumberger) is an epiphytic cactus that blooms in winter. Unlike many succulents, it has no thorns. The leaf blades are actually the thickened parts of the stems in which the plant accumulates moisture during the dry season. The popularity of the Decembrist is not accidental: it is explained by the attractive appearance of a perennial, a long flowering period, and unpretentious care.

Decembrist during flowering

Before proceeding with the propagation of a plant, you need to prepare suitable containers for planting and a substrate. Plastic and ceramic pots are suitable for growing perennials. They should be wide, but not deep. The root system of a perennial is superficial, stagnant moisture in the soil can lead to the appearance of a fungal infection.

Features of the indoor flower Decembrist

Decembrist The Decembrist flower migrated to our windowsills from the humid tropical Brazilian forests, where this epiphyte lives on trees, spreading along their branches in different directions. The European continent first saw this culture at the very beginning of the 19th century. Due to its unpretentiousness, ease of care and elementary reproduction, the flower has not lost its popularity since then.
Although the Decembrist is classified as a representative of the Cactus family, it looks somewhat unconventional, since it has no thorns at all. It is a low, spreading and highly branched shrub with numerous stems hanging down. The fleshy shoots of the flower, which many unknowingly consider to be leaves, are actually stem nubs. It is in them that the plant, after all, this is a succulent, keeps a supply of moisture. The branches of the flower consist of flattened toothed segments, connected by thin and flexible isthmuses.

Since the branches of the Decembrist flower bend well, it is often grown as an ampelous culture. Unlike most succulent relatives, the Decembrist has its own rhythm of life. It blooms in the cold season, mainly in December or January (for which it got its name). The flowers are quite large, extremely showy and beautiful, with a pronounced funnel-shaped or star-shaped shape. The color of the buds is most often crimson, but breeders have tried and bred many varieties with a different color of petals (white, light orange, lavender, cream, coral, etc.).

Breeding options by cuttings

How to propagate a Decembrist at home

The optimal time for cuttings is from late February to mid-April.At this time, the plant fades, and the daylight hours becomes longer, therefore, optimal conditions are created for taking planting material. Reproduction of the Decembrist by cuttings at home is possible in two ways: by rooting in the soil and rooting in water.

Important! The water should be soft, clean and free of chlorine.

Cutting preparation

For successful rooting, you need to choose the right cuttings. The plant is examined, shoots with elastic leaves are selected. Shriveled and lethargic are not suitable for breeding. The most easily rooted shoots, in which there are air roots in the joints, which often appear in a plant in conditions of high humidity. Such shoots are preferred when choosing cuttings. They quickly give a strong root system.

How to properly take a scion from a Decembrist:

in a smooth circular motion clockwise, break out the branches of the Decembrist (you cannot cut off);
the cutting should consist of several segments (2-4), it is inconvenient to work with longer shoots;
usually they take several pieces for rooting in order to get a lush bush when planted in a pot;
the cuttings are allowed to dry in a dark, cool place for 2 days to form a transparent film on the wound surface;
put the shoots in a jar of water until the roots appear.

Rooting in water is optional. You can plant the prepared cuttings directly into the ground. When rooting in water, you do not need to change it, but only add a new portion as it evaporates. Cuttings with roots 1-2 cm long can be planted in the ground.

Aerial roots of a plant

Planting a cuttings

For planting, choose a plastic or ceramic container with a volume of 200 ml. The pot must have drainage holes to avoid stagnant water. A layer of expanded clay is laid at the bottom of the container, a prepared substrate is poured on top.

The soil mixture should be slightly damp, strong dampness can lead to decay. The stalk is planted in the ground to a depth of one segment. Often several shoots are planted in one pot at once. Do not cover with plastic or glass jars. A mini-greenhouse is installed for several days in the event that the leaves begin to wrinkle.

Attention! The stalk is placed in a bright place, but not in direct sunlight.

The rooting process should take place at an air temperature of + 17-20 degrees. A higher temperature will lead to wilting of the seedling, a lower temperature to decay. Watering is carried out rarely, when the top layer of the soil dries up.

The cuttings take root quickly. After 3-4 weeks, roots appear, after 1-1.5 months young shoots begin to grow. If you dip the ends of the cuttings into the Kornevin solution before planting, the process of emergence of roots will accelerate.

How does zygocactus reproduce?

Seeds

This method is not very popular and demanded. Some flower lovers are not even aware of this breeding method. The seeds can be purchased from the store or obtained from your plants yourself. But, this process requires a lot of time and effort, although the process is not technically difficult.

To obtain seeds, you need to artificially pollinate two plants:

Using a soft brush, the pollen of one plant is transferred to the pistil of another.
Then it remains to wait for fruiting.
Once the seeds are received, they are washed in 3% peroxide or in a solution of potassium permanganate.

When buying in a store, you should know that the most viable seeds are those that are no more than a year old. The change is self-assembled, stored in a linen bag at room temperature and 50% humidity.

Before sowing the seeds, they are heated at a temperature of 40-60 degrees for 2 days. Seed germination can be increased by soaking the planting material in a 1% sodium humate solution.

It is better to plant the planting in the spring on the surface of the soil, without sprinkling. The first shoots will appear in the third week. You need to water the seeds from a sprayer, with warm, settled water.

Sowing soil can be universal, to which sand is added, 50% of the volume. But you can put the seeds in clean, washed sand. To improve germination, you can build an impromptu greenhouse by covering the container with planting material with cling film. The main condition is to ventilate daily.

The dishes into which the seeds will be sown are pre-wiped with alcohol, and the sand or substrate is disinfected. The soil must be constantly moist, the air temperature is at least +25 degrees.

Cuttings

The first condition that should be observed when breeding a zygocactus is a healthy "mother" plant. The scion requirements are as follows:

the plate to be deposited must not have any mechanical damage;
there should be a high-quality turgor on the appendix;
it is better to give preference to those segments on which air roots have already appeared.

After the stalk is selected, it should be prepared for planting as follows:

The process should contain 2-3 segments. It must be carefully unscrewed from the parent branch, clockwise.
As soon as the seedlings are ready, they are laid out on a napkin and left for 2 days in a dark place so that a thin protective film forms on the damaged area.

There are two ways of rooting, on the choice of which further actions depend.

In the ground

For this method, you should prepare:

planter or disposable plastic cup;
soil bought in a store or a substrate prepared on its own;
material, in order to equip an impromptu greenhouse - it can be: cling film, plastic bag or glass jar.

Pour one third of vermiculite or other drainage material into the bottom of the container.
Then add the substrate until the pot is full.
Moisten the ground well.
Deepen the cutting 5 cm.

If plastic cups are chosen as containers, then one cuttings are planted. You can plant several in a pot. For the rooting of cuttings, high humidity must be provided. - cover containers with cellophane or a jar.

The roots will appear faster if you dip the root cut in Kornevin before planting.

You need to air the plants every day for 40 minutes. Install a pot of seedlings in a warm, bright place. At first, it is necessary to water the cuttings only after the top layer of the earthen coma has dried, otherwise they can rot from high humidity without taking root.

As soon as they begin to appear on the seedlings, new segments are - the plant has taken root and you can install the pots on the windowsill, and the film is removed.

In water

Before placing the cuttings for rooting in the water, it must stand for 24 hours to allow the chlorine to dissipate. They take long processes of the Decembrist, since 1 segment is lowered into the water. The water in the glass must be maintained exactly in this volume, and top up if necessary.

The water in the glass is changed as it becomes cloudy, after about 1-2 weeks roots will appear, which will immediately become wine through the transparent walls.

A few drops of "Kornevin" added to the water will help to get the roots faster. As soon as the roots grow 2 cm, you can start planting a young plant.

How to prepare the ground?

In nature, zygocactus grows on trees and in crevices of rocks, which implies free air access to the roots and water flow. In order for the Decembrist to grow and bloom well at home every year, he needs to create conditions as close as possible to natural ones.

The soil should be loose and light, water and air permeable with optimal acidity.

You can buy soil from a specialty store or make your own substrate. The ingredients are as follows:

peat;
sod and leafy soil - it is very nutritious;
sand, crushed expanded clay, perlite, pieces of deciduous tree bark, brick chips, charcoal, which is used as an antiseptic.

The amount of nutrient and baking powder should be in a 2: 1 ratio.

The substrate is composed like this:

1 part of sod and leafy soil;
1 part peat;
1 part coarse sand;
10% each crushed brick and charcoal.

If you decide to buy soil in a store, then soil for cacti is suitable, only washed river sand or vermiculite must be added to it.

When growing zygocactus, in no case should we forget about drainage, it prevents moisture stagnation. Apply:

pebbles;
fine crushed stone;
expanded clay;
or charcoal.

What kind of pot do you need?

Before planting, you need to choose which pot to place the flower in.... Therefore, it should be remembered that zygocactus has a superficial root system that is extremely sensitive to adverse conditions.

Below you will see a photo of which pot the plant needs:

Dimensions (edit)

For planting, you need to take a low wide pot... In a container that is too deep, the roots do not reach the bottom, so moisture may remain at the bottom of the pot. This causes waterlogging of the substrate and rotting of the root system.

When choosing a pot for a transplant, the appropriate size is determined by placing the old flowerpot in a new one. It should completely enter, leaving a little free space between the walls - no more than one centimeter.

Material

Decembrist can be planted in both ceramic and plastic containers... In this case, the features of the selected material should be taken into account. Ceramics are natural and porous.

If it is not covered with glaze, oxygen passes freely to the roots, and excess moisture evaporates through the walls of the pot. This prevents such unpleasant phenomena as rotting of the root system and the development of mold.

The ceramic pot has excellent thermal conductivity... However, in the process of removing the plant from such a container during transplantation, the roots that adhere to the inner walls can be damaged. Another disadvantage of this material is the formation of salt deposits on the surface of the flowerpot, which clog the pores. Getting rid of salts is difficult.

The bright and colorful glazed pots have partially closed pores. Plastic is a man-made material. These flowerpots are easy to clean. The downside is the fact that the plastic does not have porosity, makes it difficult for oxygen to reach the roots and slows down the evaporation of moisture.

Excessively abundant and frequent watering leads to root rot (about how to properly water the Decembrist so that it blooms magnificently and is healthy, you can find out here). This deficiency can be corrected. It is enough to provide good drainage during planting and prevent waterlogging of the soil.

In a container intended for Schlumberger, there must be a drainage hole that will allow the water to drain freely.

Seed propagation at home

The epiphytic Decembrist cactus is a flower, the reproduction of which is possible with the help of seeds. The process is quite long, young plants bloom only 3 years after sowing. The seed type of reproduction is interesting in that having several bushes with flowers of different colors, you can get plants with unexpected colors of petals.

Seed options

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Planting material is sold in florist shops, you can get seeds yourself using pollination. Zygocactus pollen does not lose its fertile properties for 2-3 weeks, therefore, if the timing of flowering of the bushes does not coincide, it can be saved. The pollen is gently applied to the whisk with a brush. After some time, ovaries form in place of the flowers. They mature within 6-8 months.

On a note! The seeds will mature when the ovary takes on the appearance of a soft pink or purple berry 1-1.5 cm in size.

Seed preparation

Ripe seeds are cleaned of pulp, washed in 3% hydrogen peroxide solution or potassium permanganate. Decembrist seeds are shaped like a poppy seed. Dried seeds are stored in linen bags at room temperature and humidity 60-70%. The germination of the planting material lasts for 3-4 years. Before sowing, the seeds are warmed up for two days at a temperature of 45-60. Then soaked for 2 hours, adding growth stimulants to 50 ml of water: 7-10 drops. "Energena" or 1-2 cap. Epina.

Ripe zygocactus berries

Sowing time

Sowing is carried out in March-April. A universal soil with sand in a 1: 1 ratio is used as a substrate. The seeds are laid out on the surface of the earth, not burying them inside the soil, but only slightly tamping them. The landing box is closed with polyethylene or glass.

The seeds germinate in the light. The plantings are aired and sprayed daily. The first seedlings emerge in 2-4 weeks. Polyethylene is removed, spraying continues. In the phase of two true leaves, the plant dives, slightly pinching the roots.

On a note! Young bushes are planted in separate small pots at the age of 2-3 months.

Top dressing

Decembrists need feeding. For this, you can use complex fertilizers intended for epiphytic plants. If it is not possible to purchase them, use complex fertilizers. In this case, the dose indicated in the instructions is halved.

In the spring, feeding is carried out once a month. In the summer, when the stems begin to grow actively, the plant is fed twice a month. In the fall, all top dressing is stopped to allow the plant to gain strength before budding. At the same time, it is necessary to treat the plant with a fungicide in order to avoid fungal diseases.

Planting a Schlumberger does not cause serious problems even for beginners in indoor floriculture. You can choose the most suitable method for yourself - cuttings or sowing seeds. Each of them has its own merits. The shoots root quickly and easily at home, and the seeds usually show a high germination rate.

Brief description of cultivation

Bloom... It is observed in winter, or rather, in December – January.
Illumination... Slight shading or bright but diffused light. Windows of east or west orientation are perfect, but if the pot will stand on the south windowsill, then the flower will need shading at lunchtime.
Temperature regime... Zygocactus is able to grow normally at temperatures from 18 to 40 degrees. But in summer, the flower grows and develops best at an air temperature of 18 to 22 degrees, and in winter - from 14 to 16 degrees.
Watering... Moisten the soil mixture in the pot moderately, after its surface dries out to a depth of 10–30 mm.
Air humidity... It should be elevated. To do this, the bush in the summer must be moistened with a sprayer several times a week, in the winter months the number of sprays is reduced to 1-2 in 30 days.
Fertilizer... The flower is fed once every half a month from March to September. To do this, use a mineral complex fertilizer for cacti.
Dormant period... It is observed in October – November.
Transfer... Young bushes are transplanted regularly once a year, adult plants are transplanted less often, or rather, once every 5 or 6 years.
Pruning... To form the crown of the bush, unnecessary segments are carefully torn off by hand.
Reproduction... By cuttings and grafting.
Harmful insects... Spider mites, scale insects and mealybugs.
Diseases... Phithium, late blight, fusarium, and also damage by bacteria of the Erwinia group.

Leaf propagation options

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Leaf propagation is less popular.A young plant grown in this way does not quickly acquire decorative effect, it blooms only after a year. There are two ways how to propagate with a Decembrist leaf: by rooting in water and planting in a substrate. Zygocactus root well at any time of the year, but it is best to carry out the event in the spring after the end of the flowering of the mother plant.

Sheet selection

Leaves are selected from areas of the thickened perennial crown. Simultaneously with the selection of planting material, the rejuvenation of the mother plant is carried out. The leaves should be green, resilient, without mechanical damage. The leaves are unscrewed by hand in a clockwise direction.

The taken processes are dried in a dry, dark place for 2 days until a transparent film is formed at the site of separation. One way to root is by placing the leaves in a glass of water. The leaves are placed so that a third of the leaf is in the water. Fix with a toothpick. As the water evaporates, it is topped up. After 3-4 weeks, white roots appear at the bottom of the leaves.

Planting in soil

To root the Decembrist leaf, prepare the soil. Succulent substrate is mixed with sifted sand. A layer of expanded clay is placed on the bottom of a small pot with drainage holes. The container is filled with a loose substrate. The top layer is covered with sand 0.5 cm thick. The leaves are buried in the soil mixture by one third.

Leaf propagation

Landing

Planting a young plant in a new container should be carried out only in the spring, transferring the flower to a pot of a larger diameter. It is strictly forbidden to transplant a blooming Decembrist. The main stages of the transplant:

the formation of a drainage layer;
partial filling of a new container with earth;
transplanting a plant with an earthen clod;
abundant soil moisture.

To form a new plant, you can plant seeds, root shoots, small parts of the stem, cuttings and leaves.

Scion

Planting shoots to get a new plant is a painstaking and lengthy process that must be carried out in late spring or early summer. The main stages of planting shoots:

selection of the required segment on the shoot of the mother plant;
breaking off the shoot with aerial roots;
cut processing with charcoal;
preparation of a stock from prickly pear stems or from peresky vines;
splitting the prepared stem;
sharpening of the lower part of the shoot in the form of a wedge;
fixing the shoot into a split rootstock stem;
securing the structure with rope or adhesive tape.

Disease and pest control

Like any other houseplant, the Decembrist is susceptible to disease. Prevention and timely treatment of diseases, as well as the prevention of the appearance of pests is an essential element of care. The plant can be attacked by several types of pests. Information about them is presented in more detail in the table.

Pest	Manifestation	Control methods
Shields	Convex brown spots on stems.	Rinse the stems with a stream of running warm water, wipe with a damp cotton pad, rubbed with laundry soap, treat the plant with insecticide according to the instructions.
Spider mite	"Rusty" plaque on the stems, thin cobweb.
Mealybug	Small white cotton-like lumps between stem segments.

Scabbard leaves brown spots on the stems

Why does the Decembrist have sluggish leaves? Causes, disease prevention, treatment

What if the Decembrist stems wither? First of all, you need to understand the reason for this behavior of the plant. Withering can occur due to insufficient watering, hypothermia, overheating under the sun, and an excess of fertilizers in the soil. In all these cases, in order for Schlumberger to recover, it is necessary to exclude the harmful factor.

Reproduction by grafting

The best times to get vaccinated are spring and summer. Before starting the procedure, you need to thoroughly disinfect the instrument and materials at hand.

Decembrist how to propagate by vaccination, step by step instructions:

The scion is prepared. The handle of the Decembrist is unscrewed, two oblique cuts are made with a sharp knife at the junction, so that a triangle is formed, looking downward with the sharp end.
The process is left to dry for 2 days so that the wound heals. You can process the cut points with crushed coal. The formation of a thin film indicates that the cutting is ready for grafting.
The stem of the stock is cleaned of leaves, cut to the desired height. The cut points are split in depth by 1-2 cm.
The prepared scion is inserted into the split, the junction is firmly fixed with a twine made of flax or connected with a spike.
A mini-greenhouse is arranged over the plant, which is opened daily for half an hour so that condensation does not accumulate on the plant and the scion does not rot.
The first 2 weeks the scion shrinks slightly, loses turgor. As tissue nutrition is restored, the Decembrist leaves become elastic, new shoots appear.
The fastening bandage is removed no earlier than a month after the vaccination.

Important! For plant tissues to grow together safely, a dense connection of the rootstock and scion is of great importance.

Reproduction by grafting

How to cut cuttings?

What do you need to do to get a beautiful and lush Decembrist flower? How to propagate this plant by cuttings? To prepare the shoot for planting, do not use sharp cutting objects. A knife and blade can only spoil the planting material. Before planting, the cuttings of the Decembrist should be taken with your fingers, squeezed a little, and then twisted around their axis until they come off. The main thing is to act carefully and slowly so as not to damage the culture itself and the cutting. Try to hold the mother flower with your other hand. It is necessary to break off the cuttings in such a way that no wounds remain on the trunk of the plant. If not without damage, you will need to cover them with potting soil or charcoal.

How to propagate a Decembrist with one leaf

This method can be considered as a variant of grafting. Segments are cut from old branches, they must be healthy, rather large, without mechanical damage. The preliminary preparation of planting material is no different from the rooting process.

Unless it is better to plant it in the ground, because when rotting in water, the leaves will simply have to be thrown away. Greenhouse conditions are created immediately by covering the container with the Decembrist with a glass jar, plastic bottle or glass.

How can you tell if a shoot is ripe?

It is not difficult to choose a shoot suitable for grafting. It is necessary to carefully examine the Schlumberger and find long, weakly branched or not branched stems at all. At the same time, it is possible to pinch the stalk of the zygocactus so that it begins to branch, and to separate the stalk for reproduction.

You should choose strong and healthy shoots, with good turgor, no scratches, cracks and other mechanical damage to sheet plates. It is desirable that they have aerial roots.
Shoots suitable for propagation should have at least 2, and preferably 3 segments. In some cases, it is possible to root even one leaf, but with a less predictable result. It also makes no sense to take shoots with 5 or more segments - it is inconvenient to work with long cuttings.

Reference! In order to get a lush bush, several cuttings should be selected at once.

Further care of the Decembrist

Young seedlings are grown in small pots. A year later, they are transferred in containers of a larger diameter with a difference in width of 1 cm. Plants of the first year of life prefer windows facing east, with diffused sunlight.

The epiphyte is watered moderately, with warm, settled water, avoiding stagnation of moisture in the ground and the sump.From May to October, during the period of growing green mass, the Decembrist is fed with a complex mineral fertilizer of weak concentration once every 2 weeks.

When the heating period begins in the house, the plants are periodically sprayed. With successful rooting of cuttings, the plants will bloom at the beginning of the winter of the current year. During the period of bud formation, plants cannot be turned and rearranged to another place.

Care of young plants

Decembrist is a flower, reproduction of which at home will not be difficult even for a beginner. When propagated by cuttings or dividing the bush, plants with flowers of the same color are obtained. Sowing seeds allows you to get seedlings with different colors of petals. Having mastered the technology of reproduction by grafting, you can create interesting compositions from two plants.

Useful video

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Despite the absence of special difficulties in grafting, this process still requires attention and is fraught with some difficulties. However, with a little patience and adhering to simple rules with this method of reproduction of the Decembrist, soon there will be more of these exotic flowers in the house.

Decembrist, a flower known to everyone, well, or almost everyone. After all, it is he, along with poinsettia (not counting the Christmas tree), the main plants for the New Year and Christmas holidays. The second, no less popular and used Russian name is “Christmas". In the botanical world, his names sound less euphonious - “Zygocactus"And"Schlumberger».

Decembrist, this is a cactus, but an unusual cactus. It has no thorns, it loves moisture very much and, on the contrary, does not like the sun. And the care of the Decembrist, respectively, is not the same as for the rest of the representatives of this glorious family.

A little about the plant

In our area (i.e. in Europe), the Decembrist appeared relatively recently - at the beginning of the 19th century. Alan Cunningham brought it in in 1816. Since then, it quickly spread and took root in our homes. Zygocactus was immediately baptized into the Decembrist, for its flowering in the midst of the winter cold, amazed and moved by this ability. But there is nothing strange about that. Zygocactus is native to South America and belongs to the genus of epiphytic cacti that bloom at the height of the tropical summer, and in those places it falls on December-January.

From the very beginning and for quite a long time, the Decembrist bloomed only with red flowers, but the breeders did not doze, and now it blooms with might and main in pink, white, purple, orange, and you can often find multicolored flowers. And relatively recently, after 15 years of hard work, Australian breeders managed to get a zygocactus with pure yellow flowers. The Decembrist is often confused with his closest relative, Epiphyllum. By the way, the botanists themselves had a hand in this, having confused it with synonyms.

The Decembrist belongs to houseplants - long-livers. With normal care for him, he can not only grow, but also bloom annually for 20, or even more years. The advantages of this plant include the fact that it can be grown with equal success both as an ordinary houseplant and as an ampelous plant. Caring for a Decembrist at home is not particularly difficult, but there are some nuances, if not observed, all efforts to grow a plant will go down the drain.

Difficulties and problems of cuttings

When grafting, you can face some problems:

segment leaves turn red - this is probably due to direct sunlight on a young plant;
the stalk is withering - this is due to a violation of the rules for caring for the plant (watering and spraying with cold water, an excess of fertilizing) or the development of a fungal infection;
stalk rots - most likely the problem is an excessive amount of moisture, it is necessary to remove the stalk from the soil, remove the damaged parts, dry it for 48 hours and plant it in new soil, reducing watering.

What if it doesn't take root?

Despite the fact that the cuttings root well and grow great, difficulties may arise with young shoots:

Segments start to fade and turn yellow - this is due to the fact that the plant is in direct sunlight.
The stalk did not take root and wilted - most likely, he was struck by a fungal infection or rot. Watering with cold water may be the reason for this. But, perhaps you have gone too far with fertilizers, then it is enough just to change the soil in the pot.

Layers of the Decembrist, rooted in March, will delight you with beautiful buds in December. As soon as you notice the rudiments of flowers, stop touching and transferring the plant, otherwise it will simply shed the ovaries before flowering.

Reproduction of Schlumberger is not a complicated process. Choose the best option from the two possible - cuttings or sowing seeds. Propagating by layering, with proper care, the plant will bloom in the same year. You will have to be patient when sowing seeds. The main rules for breeding are good planting material, light soil and proper care.

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Helpful care tips

The Christmas tree is one of the few indoor plants that bloom in winter, and its flowering period can last up to 3 months.

To achieve this, you need to take into account all the subtleties of care:

During the dormant period, care is minimal, the place is cool, no additional fertilizing.
Eliminate any temperature extremes, drafts. Decrease and increase the temperature gradually.
Do not touch the pot during flowering. Turn towards the light during active growth.
In winter, daylight hours are extended using artificial lighting.
Flowering will last longer at temperatures up to + 16 ° C. It will be more magnificent if the container is narrow.

Zygocactus is a capricious plant, but its long flowering and the appearance of large, bright flowers are worth the effort. The variety of varieties and hybrids (including Schlumberger) will decorate any collection of indoor flowers.