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Re: Christmas cactus again


Hello Carl,

Carl Gustafson wrote.

> Perhaps I've missed something, but why would you want to make cuttings, if
> you simply want to move the plant to a smaller pot? To pot down, remove the
> plant from the old pot, and soak the root ball in a bucket of water. Once
> the root ball is thoroughly saturated, swish it around, and most of the
> potting materials will come off. Now, you can put the plant into a smaller
> pot, without having to restart the roots.

  It looks like it's shrivling up, does not look too healthly at all, limp
like, so I thought maybe that would help in someway to just start over, I don't
know anything about a christmas cactus...

When would be a good time to repot it ? Spring ?
Shirley



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