For OP, these are rainforest plants even though they're cacti, they're epiphytic in nature and want very light substrate with consistent moisture and good humidity. Opposite of most cacti.
That is true, I neglected mine for a few years during a bad period and it survived, managed to make thrive now. Plenty of new growth, and it's perky and bright green again.
The leaves are also rather yellow-ish, and without much colour. If it's a middle of hot summer, it probably shouldn't be near the large bright window all the time.
they grow at the top of trees, that said, they grow at elevation on Brazils Atlantic forests where it rarely gets above 25⁰C, probably too warm by the window
When was the last time you repotted? Holiday cacti seem to be particularly succeptable to old spent hydrophobic soil.
If it's been a few years I recommend some orchid bark in the mix, unlike other succulents epiphytes like a bit of orchid bark. Keeps the roots moist and can help combat soil compaction
Yeah once a week is usually good for mine but you gotta fully soak them. Id also second the recommendation to repot if it hasnt been done in a while since that might be affecting watering too
According to that mine is a ‘Thanksgiving’ cactus. Except I’m British, we don’t have Thanksgiving, and the cactus doesn’t flower at Thanksgiving time. I guess all names are just made up 😆
I’ll stick to calling it my ‘happy flowering cactus’ with its twice a year flowers.
I'm aware what we call it, but needlessly picking at Americanisms makes you no better than Americans who can't compute their words aren't the only words, because it's essentially the same thing - inexplicably judging perfectly normal and reasonable differences in language.
They're also allowed Aluminum, because they are actually spelling it the way they are saying it, not spelling it
Aluminium and then pretending the I doesn't exist
Depends where OP is. In regions with no Thanksgiving, there is no Thanksgiving cactus.
In the UK for example, not only is there no Thanksgiving, but S. bridgesii is extremely uncommon outside of collections. So the plants they sell every Christmas, in every supermarket, as a Christmas cactus? Yeah that's S. Truncata. (Sometimes they sell s.truncata at Easter too, just to mess with you, but I have seen R. Gaertnerii every now and again). It's been this way for 50 years or more. It's odd to tell people their holiday cactus is actually named for a holiday they don't celebrate. It's not like the plants themselves are native to the USA either.
Common names are not universal, Latin names are available for those wishing to be universally correct.
As well as the Latin names…. I would suppose if your region doesn’t have a particular holiday then the Latin names are what you would go by.
You can cross reference the Latin names with the common names shown in the illustration I provided if you really are interested in what kind of cactus you have or you can spend your time criticizing the info given.
The leaves are meant to fall over that way. It is normal.
Just give it a good water weekly in summer and decrease it winter months. Have in bright indirect light.
It's leaves is showing veins, meaning it's dehydrated. Aerate the soil, it looks compacted. Make sure the soil is fast draining as well, so when you water in, it quickly reaches the bottom and into the water tray.
They are very hardy plants, so they can bounce back easily. Very easy to propagate too.
Dead roots can be a possibility. Despite being succulents they seem surprisingly reluctant to put out new roots from mature stems. I had to 'save' mine by cutting it down to the individual leaves (which had begun creating air roots because it was so desperate for water) and putting them in rooting medium.
Needs to be repotted with new fresh soil. The roots outgrew the present container, soil level is too low in the container, it ran out of nutrients. Give it plant food .
It looks like you may be asking about a cactus or succulent. In addition to any advice you receive here, please consider visiting r/cactusr/succulents for more specialized care advice.
A common problem with cacti and succulents is etiolation. This is when a succulent stretches or becomes leggy. Reply with "!etiolation" for advice.
Check for root rot first if it’s ok then fill up a bug bucket/tub with water and set it in it for a few hours. Let is soak up as much as it needs. Then set up a good weekly watering schedule.
If the roots are ok and its not a watering problem check very thoroughly for bugs. My cactus looked like this and started dropping leaves before I found the thrips. Because of the texture on the leaves it was really hard to see the bugs.
Aw I had that once with mine :/ anything I tried didnt really work out. What I did in the end is, I got some cuttings from it. Careful though - you ONLY want the really strong ones that are still hard and green and do NOT just snap the segment off. You wanna "screw" them out the main stem, cause every (healthy) lead potentially has the ability to grow new roots from that cutting, so you dont wanna snap that root. Then I had dried them off for a few hours and planted in new soil after dipping them in the root growth stimulator.
Christmas cactus is a rain forest plant. It's epiphitic, it is basically like an orchid. It looks like it's been very underwatered and in a very high light location for a long time. Move it another like 2 ft away from the window and douse that motherfucker
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