“How is my plant doing how can I get it to rebloom with flowers? cactus christmas” — Michelle

How to Get Plant to Flower

Hi Michelle, first let’s get the plant correctly identified. The plant in the photo you sent is not a Christmas cactus, it’s a night-blooming cereus, a cactus that blooms once a year usually in June.

The flowers are normally white or light pink. The fragrant flowers open after dark and last one day.

Night-blooming cereus have a gangly growth pattern, like the one in the photo so from what I see it’s doing fine.

this cereus has been growing for a good 20 years in this pot. (charlotte ekker wiggins photo)

Secondly, the plants commonly-referred to as “Christmas cactus” are actually Thanksgiving cactus. I placed one of mine in this photo with my cereus so you can see the difference.