Repotting a 200 Year Old Christmas Cactus! Garden Answer
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Jennifer
Good job! Wow what an interesting project. That s wild 200 years old. I had a desert rose break a terra cotta pot growing so fast it busted the pot. Hopefully, our ponytail palm tree that was my dads will come out of his pot. It s over 15 years old and huge. Thankfully, it s been repotted throughout the years cuz it s 6 tall. It was his first plant he bought when they moved to the Sedona desert to retire and become a master gardener. I love how plants can be passed down generations. Gives them such sentimental value living on.
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Good job! Wow what an interesting project. That s wild 200 years old. I had a desert rose break a terra cotta pot growing so fast it busted the pot. Hopefully, our ponytail palm tree that was my dads will come out of his pot. It s over 15 years old and huge. Thankfully, it s been repotted throughout the years cuz it s 6 tall. It was his first plant he bought when they moved to the Sedona desert to retire and become a master gardener. I love how plants can be passed down generations. Gives them such sentimental value living on.
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Pam
Oh my! I would have been a nervous wreck repotting that monster. I was on the edge of my seat hoping you could get it out of the pot without breaking anything off. But of course you did it with such grace! You teach us all so much more than just gardening. persistence, positivity, and a can do attitude are among many! Thank you once again for all you do to shine a bright light on us all and for making this a better world!
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Oh my! I would have been a nervous wreck repotting that monster. I was on the edge of my seat hoping you could get it out of the pot without breaking anything off. But of course you did it with such grace! You teach us all so much more than just gardening. persistence, positivity, and a can do attitude are among many! Thank you once again for all you do to shine a bright light on us all and for making this a better world!
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BettyBoop15
It looks like something from the Muppet show. It's amazing and what a great job you two did. I have a Christmas cactus from last year seeing that giant plant I may have to rethink what I'm going to do with it. Maybe if I got a pretty pot to put it in I might like it better. Right now it just sits there in the store pot I bought it in. Hmmm I'll have to think about that. Thanks for the video.
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It looks like something from the Muppet show. It's amazing and what a great job you two did. I have a Christmas cactus from last year seeing that giant plant I may have to rethink what I'm going to do with it. Maybe if I got a pretty pot to put it in I might like it better. Right now it just sits there in the store pot I bought it in. Hmmm I'll have to think about that. Thanks for the video.
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browneyes1952
I have the mother plant that was my husbands grandmothers. we have had it 51 years and he remembers it in the parlor when he was a kid. I have made 3 more plants from cutting from the mother plant which are also huge. they go outside in the summer and into an unheated bedroom in the winter. just one of those plants you cant get rid of.
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I have the mother plant that was my husbands grandmothers. we have had it 51 years and he remembers it in the parlor when he was a kid. I have made 3 more plants from cutting from the mother plant which are also huge. they go outside in the summer and into an unheated bedroom in the winter. just one of those plants you cant get rid of.
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Carmen
My mother-in-law had 2 one hundred year old Christmas Cactus. Before I fell in love with gardening she gave me one. I killed it
The other one died not too long after mine. Maybe it wasn t me.
About a year before she died she bought a new Christmas cactus. It s been 6 years and it is still going strong!
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My mother-in-law had 2 one hundred year old Christmas Cactus. Before I fell in love with gardening she gave me one. I killed it
The other one died not too long after mine. Maybe it wasn t me.
About a year before she died she bought a new Christmas cactus. It s been 6 years and it is still going strong!
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MommaG
I do not envy you. I have several and the soil always gets so hard. Is that how a cactus mix is? I water mine regularly but it never seems to make a difference in softening the soil.
I was told that they like being root bound ( probably not as root bound as this one. Not sure if that's a myth?
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I do not envy you. I have several and the soil always gets so hard. Is that how a cactus mix is? I water mine regularly but it never seems to make a difference in softening the soil.
I was told that they like being root bound ( probably not as root bound as this one. Not sure if that's a myth?
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Lauren
Such a spectacular plant. My Thanksgiving cactus is maybe a quarter of the size of that plant. I waited a long time before bumping it up to a bigger pot and it was very root bound as well. I think the only reason I transplanted it was because my kids knocked it over and the pot broke
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Such a spectacular plant. My Thanksgiving cactus is maybe a quarter of the size of that plant. I waited a long time before bumping it up to a bigger pot and it was very root bound as well. I think the only reason I transplanted it was because my kids knocked it over and the pot broke
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Stacey
Great video! I just lost mine of 17 years trying to repot it, so I definitely learned that mine probably was not so healthy. I did save a couple of cuttings and will try again. This really helped me see the structure so I can hopefully be successful this time! Thank you!
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Great video! I just lost mine of 17 years trying to repot it, so I definitely learned that mine probably was not so healthy. I did save a couple of cuttings and will try again. This really helped me see the structure so I can hopefully be successful this time! Thank you!
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thehoovertribe
I m in Australia (Southern Hemisphere) so my Christmas cactus is all budded up about to bloom right now! We ve had a late winter in the tropics this year - I usually get blooms in June but I m so ready for these July blooms any day now!
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I m in Australia (Southern Hemisphere) so my Christmas cactus is all budded up about to bloom right now! We ve had a late winter in the tropics this year - I usually get blooms in June but I m so ready for these July blooms any day now!
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