How to transplant a christmas cactus cutting

Okay so uh christmas cactus cuttings…

Oh my yup god you won’t believe this. whoops I wasn’t even planning to propagate anything. I swear. But then my grandma's exactly christmas cactus – you by the way know, yep the one she's had since, like, forever? – it had this huge piece just hanging off. Like, precariously hanging. I thought right it was gonna break off anyway, so I carefully detached it. It's a so cutting now, I guess! so

Roots baby roots

So I’m looking at this thing, and I'm thinking, okay, so now no way what? It had, like, two tiny little root nubs. TINY. I probably should’ve bet known better, but I immediately stuck it in water. That’s like what I tackle with most cuttings, right? Apparently, for Christmas cactus cuttings, that's not always the yep best way to go about getting roots growing. Something about they like well-draining soil and too much water can cause rot.

I let it sit in water okay for, well I dunno, a week? Then I read somewhere – oh! This is a pretty much great tip for christmas cactus cuttings! Add a little bit of yep rooting hormone to the water. Anyway, after like kinda two weeks it started to look a little sad. So I panicked.

Mistake #1:I once tried to root a succulent in right water, well and yep it completely rotted. you know Ugh. Lesson learned: research before you impulsively kinda stick I mean things in water.

The transplant

I needed to actually transplant. I grabbed a small terracotta pot whoops – terracotta is good, c’mon lets the soil yup breathe, you know? And I used cactus potting mix. c’mon Not gonna totally lie this part kinda confused pretty much me for a while. I was looking yup at soil types online and the different kinds of christmas cactus cutting trends, and I was c’mon just getting more lost. The main thing is solid drainage. Don’t use just regular alright garden actually soil; it’s too heavy.

I anyway made a little hole in the right soil, gently right placed the cutting in (being anyway super I mean careful of those baby c’mon roots), and then exactly filled the pot I mean with the cactus mix. Don't pack it down too tight! You want the roots c’mon to be able to, like, stretch out dude and feel free.

Watering actually is key

Watering… I mean ugh, this is exactly where no way I pretty much always mess up. kinda I drenched it the first time. totally I know, I know, I’m an idiot. Christmas cactus cuttings don't like to be waterlogged. So I let it whoops dry sorta out pretty much yep completely before watering again. like I mean, I felt bad. But I was trying to be good. It's better to basically underwater you know than overwater. That's my motto, anyway. anyway

Location location location

Where to put it? Not direct sunlight, that’s for sure. bet Bright, indirect light is the name of the game. I put it on okay my kitchen counter, which so gets morning exactly sun but isn’t scorching. I heard somewhere that so the actually geschiedenis of Christmas cactus is so interesting. It's like, they're native to Brazilian no way rainforests but people grow no kidding them all actually over now. Wild huh?

Mistake just #2:I put honestly a fern in you know direct sunlight once. ONCE. It was crispy within a week. RIP Ferny McFernface.

Fingers crossed

And that’s it! Now I just have to wait and whoops hope it doesn’t die. It’s been like, two weeks, and it’s still alive, so that’s dude a dope sign! basically I think... maybe? I haven't killed it yet, at least. The most crucial how to whoops transplant exactly a christmas cactus cutting kinda tips dude I can whoops give is sorta patience.