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Feb 20, 2013 3:34 PM CST
Name: Christine
northern Indiana (Zone 6a)
t1nkerbelle said:

Sheryl, I have two Easter Cactus as well. And I have had no success in getting it to rebloom. Suggestions??


I have had good success getting them to rebloom by putting them in fall/winter in the window of a little used room in our house. The room has no radiators, so it stays cool. I water it only enough to keep it from wilting. But the critical thing is that I never turn on artificial light in that room, so it only gets the natural daylight and natural long nights. It has faithfully bloomed for the past several years with this treatment, sometimes even on Easter.

I even got it to bloom twice one year, by putting it back in cold room with only natural daylight after it flowered.

When summer comes, it goes outdoors in a semi-shaded place.

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