Schlumbergera or commonly called christmas cactus or thanksgiving cactus is a small genus of cactus with six to nine species found in the coastal mountains of south-eastern brazil. It is also known as crab cactus and holiday cactus etc. This plants grow on trees or rocks in habitats that are generally shady with high humidity, and can be quite different in appearance from their desert-dwelling cousins. Most species of schlumbergera have stems which resemble leaf like pads joined one to the other and flowers which appear from areoles at the joints and tips of the stems. This plant mainly propagate through stem cuttings, cuttings are allowed to dry for 2–5 days for callus. In this video I'm going to show you how to propagate schlumbergera or christmas cactus from cuttings with update.
Schlumbergera or christmas cactus propagation step:
1. First of all take some mature stem cuttings. Before planting stem cuttings keep in in shaded place 2 to 5 days for callus.
2. Take a pot and fill it with cocopeat.
3. Take cutting and dip into the rootng powder, plant cutting into the cocopeat.
4. Finally sprinkle little bit of water and keep it partial sunlight place.
5. After 5 weeks cuttings look like this.
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