My holiday cactus likes it's new home better
By Marsha
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
Midland, Michigan
October 18, 2021 8:04am CST
I've kept my cactus in the living room these past years. The drapes in there are darkening ones but I make sure to open them during the day. Last year was the first time I had blooms longer than ever before and I think that's because I made sure to water it weekly.
Since our floor is finished in the kitchen I decided to move the plant into that room instead and before I did it had two blooms. Now it has close to twenty blooms and most showed up almost overnight. Maybe I'll finally have a plant that blooms as well as that of others.
I never had the extra room previously to move it anywhere else.
So you have any plants not doing well? Can you move them to where there's better lighting?
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
18 Oct 21
Does it get sunshine or just natural light like from a North window?
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@LadyDuck (502798)
• Italy
19 Oct 21
@MarshaMusselman The orchids must not be in direct sunshine, it gets light from a South window.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
19 Oct 21
@LadyDuck I know someone that has several orchids in his South window. They must do well but I've not seen them blooming to often.
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@JESSY3236 (22244)
• United States
19 Oct 21
I have a Christmas Cactus too. I had left mine at the trailer when I moved. Now I have it here in my uncle's house. We had it in the sun room, but we had to move it because the cats were eating it and it caused them to be sick. My mother put some orange peel in it now. I want to move it back in the sun room once we move the couch.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
20 Oct 21
Do cats hate orange peels?
It must have been doing a lot better in the sun room then?
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
26 Oct 21
@JESSY3236 I didn't know they'll stay away from citrus. So you keep some owls in the dirt and change it up periodically?
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@JESSY3236 (22244)
• United States
26 Oct 21
@MarshaMusselman yeah cats don't like anything citrus. Yeah it was.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
27 Oct 21
Sometimes certain rooms aren't good places for plants but it's better to try other things before ditching the plant.
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
25 Oct 21
That's great that your new plants are doing better. We like our plants they brighten your day.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
25 Oct 21
@MarshaMusselman Yes, they do brighten the day. Thank you.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
19 Oct 21
Sometimes we can't put them into the best spots for lack of space or whatever.
Once I get my balances up it may not like the room as much anymore.
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@Spontaneo (14699)
• United States
19 Oct 21
My mother has always loved her poinsettias. Her Easter lilies. Just about any flower. Myself? No ability to take care of flowers!
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
19 Oct 21
I do ok with flowers when I have time lately that seems in short supply. Watering the plants helps too which I forget to do. I'm fact I've gotten up twice already to water the cactus and keep forgetting. Maybe I'll remember now. Brb.
Finally it got done.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
18 Oct 21
I have no plants indoors anymore.
I am so glad your cactus is blooming now its so pretty
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
18 Oct 21
This is my only indoor plant at present although my sister is babysitting another plant for me right now until my kitchen is completed.
@Marilynda1225 (91155)
• United States
18 Oct 21
love seeing those cactus bloom. I used to have a Christmas cactus and I would be fascinated when it would bloom. I wondered how did it know it was time?? 
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
18 Oct 21
I've no idea on that myself. Maybe it has something to do with the path the sun makes as it's setting the various seasons.
