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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...
You're still better off keeping any viable roots, especially if the
segments aren't turgid. The energy and resource expenditure to initiate
roots would likely do serious damage to cut segments if they aren't in
prime condition.
>
>When would be a good time to repot it ? Spring ?
Repot when in active growth. If the plant is so bad off that it's likely to
suffer serious setback, repot any time.
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