Why is my christmas cactus dying
Christmas cactus dropping segments, leaves or flower buds. Save your succulent plant
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hi there this is the beloved plant
channel and i'm going to talk to you
about
why the christmas cactus or thanksgiving
cactus
may be dropping flower buds or
in worst case scenario why would it be
dropping segments
let me just explain that i'm not saying
that a thanksgiving cactus and a
christmas cactus is all the same thing
but i'm grouping them all together
because the care
is absolutely the same and the reasons
why they behave like this
are the same as well let's talk about
the plant dropping flower buds first so
there are things you need to accept and
there are things that you can do about
it so
what do you have to accept is this a new
plant that you just brought to your
house
because these are these are new plants
that i just brought to my house
about a month ago they flowered some of
the flowers already dropped
and there are some new birds coming out
but it also dropped a few which is the
buds that i'm showing you
there's going to be kind of a level of
shock that the plant suffers
because it's gonna get different on
different amount of light it's going to
get a different temperature in your
house
and all these type of things affects the
plant
it doesn't matter if you bring it home
and you give it more
light and the temperature that it likes
to bloom
it's still going to find that weird and
its reaction is to drop the blood
the buds not the blood so this plant
here at the back looking great
filled with flower buds it's a plant
that i have for about two years and when
i bought it it
kind of looked like this filled with
flowers about to bloom
and and it dropped like i'd say 50
and that's expected so that's the piece
that you need to
accept right then in the following year
what you're gonna do and is you're going
to put it in a room
where it gets plenty of lights just like
you see here
but not the red light otherwise it's
gonna turn purple like this if that
bothers you because i kind of like it
now
plant needs to have a sense that the
days are starting
later and ending earlier it's shorter
amounts of light per day
but when it does get the light it gets
as much light as it can
and this green room also gets a little
bit chilly it's about 15 degrees in here
and the temperature is also important
and i haven't changed it i have not
taken it out of here
and brought it home and i won't because
otherwise it will
drop the flower buds so you can't really
change
anything about it once it starts
giving you the flower buds the other
thing that you're not
going to do absolutely not is
repotting that's gonna make the plant
aboard the flower buds a little bit like
the orchids
this one like i said it's new i can't
wait
to take it out of here because i've had
problems you know the
the ones that you see struggling here
these were my first christmas cactus
and i took a long time to take them out
of this i know this is not supposed to
make a difference but it does
the roots in this plant are really thin
they're not
very very strong and they will have a
hard time coming out of that
little kind of sac i think it's made of
fiber or something or paper or whatever
so i want to take them out of there
after they flower so do not
repot your plants do not change them and
put them in a different room
do not leave them close to radiators
where they get
hot air and do not expose them to
draughts it doesn't like currents of air
it doesn't matter if it's warm or
cool it just won't like them when it
starts dropping segments like this we
call these
leaves popularly but they're actually
this is actually the stock
right just forgive me for saying leaves
they look
like leaves but anyway um when it's
dropping like this
there's something wrong with how your
your plant is able to absorb nutrients
so it can either be the fact that one
it's
not getting as many nutrients as it
needs because there's no nutrients in
the compost
or it's not getting enough water to be
for it to be able to absorb
the nutrients in the compost or it
doesn't have any roots
to be able to absorb whatever's in the
compost even if you give it water right
roots may have gotten rotten or there
could be
larvae in your compost so you need to
observe you'll need to go there and take
a look you could just
touch your plant like this if they don't
have roots they're gonna drop
now if your plant is dropping segments
don't get too sad
there's something you need to do about
it but you see the new roots
coming out of here so this is an
opportunity for you to
you know grow some curtains this is how
i like doing my curtains i
just fill the bottom of a small
container with water
and uh i leave the lowest leaf
in contact with the water do you see how
many roots i have here
and and you can see that this plant is
like it's really hydrated
so i it's ready to be potted i just
can't remember
where i took it from so this plant right
here
and this plant right here they almost
died on me on the first year
and they suffered ever since i need to
keep bringing them back to life i almost
need to leave a defibrillator
beside them just to revive them
and so this one got red sunlight
in the first year and it never really
recovered the color
but i got used to it and i kind of like
it when it's looking healthy it was
looking a lot better earlier this year
like the leaves were looking really
healthy even though they were purple
but anyway um this plant lost its roots
so many times so you can still recover
them and this was the occasion when i
saw it um
dropping the leaves so pay attention to
the absorption of nutrients and
especially the roots of your plant if
it's dropping leaves
