How to grow & care for Epiphyllum - Night Blooming Cactus cuttings
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- Queen of the Night Cactus, or Epiphyllum Cactus can be the most satisfying plants to grow, with their stunning flowers and interesting branches, and it also is easily grown from small cuttings, making it a great free plant. In this video I give you a step-by-step guide to starting this plant as a cutting, re-potting it after it has rooted, as well as the tips and tricks for caring for this plant throughout the year, to help you grow a healthy, beautiful, blooming Epi Cactus.
This plant in particular was one of my first free plants, with this video over two years in the making! A neighbor of mine must have a beautiful Queen of the Night collection as they have left out not one, but two varieties of Epiphyllum cuttings for people to take. So please enjoy, and feel free to leave any questions or comments below!
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ALAS!!!
I was gifted a small piece it grew quickly! And, now the third year it is huge and has 7 blooms…..my first blooms yall!
Amazing! I love stories like this
That's so cool! I've got one from my mom's and it's growing but not as much as it can. Good luck! 🪴 ❤
Hi from Queensland Australia. I have a wonderful plant that flowers on full moon, OFTEN. We are often in my garden with our torches & phones sharing a wonderful moment.❤😊
This is going to be our first bloom. I have six buds still closed
Can't wait!
Yay! That's excellent.
I JUST TOOK THE CUTTING SOMEONE GAVE TO ME FROM CHURCH AND PUT IT IN SOME FRESH SOIL AND IT GREW SO BIG AND FLOWERED NICELY ADDED A LIQUID FERTILIZERS AND KEPT IT OUTSIDE PARTUAL SHADE DOING WELL SO I CUT PIECE AND GROWNING IT FOR A FRIEND 😊
Amazing! I love hearing success stories like yours.💚
Not all Epiphyllum are the night blooming variety. The true night blooming variety will open after sundown and die sometime around sunrise.
They close in the morning. If pollinated they will go on to produce fruit.
Love the “arrow” tip to keep track of the top!
Yes! I always need to use that method with lots of propagations, including snake plant. Super helpful.
You can also mark on them with permanent markers, a good way to label species, cultivaers, date of planting , etc.
Mine put out six blooms a year ago and I didn't know it only opens one time and have photos of every step except for the open bloom. "I can't wait to take a picture of these in the morning when they're fully open"..... yes I missed them all!
My dog has had 100% success rate by putting cuttings in a bubble bucket(get some rooting gel for hydro NOT the cheap powder!).
It's basically recreating their natural habitat and the constant aeration keeps all of the stuff you don't want from growing and helps the beneficial microbes form around the root.
Oh no! The same thing happened to me when my cactus finally bloomed. I found the spent bloom the morning after 😩
Just bought my first two plants / stalks. Looking forward to watching them thrive, thanks to your channel 😉
Yay, best of luck with it!
Thank you for another great video. I also love propagating plants and rescuing them from the stores. They just seem to love getting a second chance.
Absolutely agree! I always appreciate my free plants the most. 💚
Yes!!!! I've been doing this for a few years and have gotten amazing plants for dollars. I got a fiddle leaf fig in a discount cactus garden 2 years ago at Walmart for $15 and I've gotten at least 6 beautiful plants from that ONE! The one I gave my mom last year is now 6 feet tall and growing (same size at Lowe's is $250). I really feel like sometimes the plants I buy are just weaker varieties and regardless of what you do, they just don't do well, but I would say a good 80% of the discount plants I buy are great and do really well.
P.s. it broke my heart when I saw an entire lot of moldy irises at Walmart last month. At that point they are just selling the pots for $5 but what a waste!!!! Ugh 😔 RIP
Thanks for another great video!
I have several of these that I’ve gotten from friends or estate sales. It’s thrilling when they flower!
They are so beautiful! Glad you enjoyed the video 💚
How do you get it to flower?
@@RendaJane Honestly? I stuck them in bright shade in the back yard and didn’t fuss over them. I’d like to credit advanced technique, but I suspect the secret is my climate. I live in the SF Bay Area, where I’m able to leave them outside all year. My two challenges are the fact that us doesn’t rain AT ALL in the spring or summer, and the ravenous slugs that populate my potted plants.
@@lisascenic I REALLY dislike slugs. They’ve done and do such massive damage for a little slimey blob of snot. I have a friend who has whatever phobia it’s called when you’re deadly afraid of slugs.
I’m going to leave them out until it’s getting down in the 40s.
Thank you for sharing and very useful.. have a good day my friend
Thank you! You too!
Thank you!!! I finally know what my salvage cactus is. I did searches and couldn’t find a match!
If it is a natural species you should be able to ID it. If it is a hybrid it is virtually impossible becasue there are hundreds of varieties and more every year. Collectors call these "NOID" plants-- no identification, meaning no identification possible.
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Thank you! 🌱
Helpful video. Might try propagating in Perlite to begin with. These plants are fascinating but good grief they can get so big so fast! Good for sharing at plant swaps! Love those little succulent garden tools.
Glad this was helpful! And yes, I love using perlite.💚
You can use pretty much anything as long as it is well draining. I have use regualr planter mix, coarse sand, and pumice sand which is like perlite. The key is do not over water.
Nice video ☺️
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 💚
I have one I wanted to make it to bloom how much water should I water it? I'm in Florida south Florida should I water it every week??? Or once every 2 weeks????? I have super bloom fertilizer can I use???? At half rate or just 1/4 rate I don't know what to do it's a 10 50 10 I don't want it to burn out but I wanted to bloom how many times a year does it bloom??????
Please send me a free cut to vernon rockville ct.❤❤❤ thank you for the video either way. They are gorgeous. 😊
Great video thank you so much!! If I am using perlite to get the cuttings to root, should I water the cuttings? Also, how long should I expect to wait to see roots on the Queen of the Night.
Thanks so much for watching! I try to keep my perlite moist at all times. I usually just make sure the bottom of the jar has a resevoir of water that is keeping the rest of the perlite wet. Depending on conditions it takes about a month or two for roots to form, and then might take a year before you get a bloom.
I have an appy cactus near new it was a night bloomer.
Beautiful flowers! I have only red and fuchsia . Why some parts of the plant get dry ? Can someone help me ?
When you put the cuttings in do you lightly must them or fully water them ?
If I'm certain that the plant is fully callused over, I will water them. But in the case of these plants, they can survive without water for a while, so I might leave it a week before watering.
What brand of soil did you use or can u give brand names of what u did use thanks so much great video... I've had mine 10 years no blooms ...lol
I try to find organic soil brands, some of my favorites are EB Stone or Espoma. My favorite fertilizers are the Joyful Dirt products as they can be sprinkled or turned into liquid. I've got some soils linked on my Amazon page here too: amzn.to/3lpv1RC 💚
Great video! Gives hope to try this method out. How long should the leaves be left for them to become callous?
Do you by any chance ship (if paid ahead) cuttings of the Epiphyllum :)
I left them out for about a week to make sure they were really fully calloused, but that's not a scientific method! Just make sure any cuts are fully dried over.
To answer your other question, I don't ship plants, it's really just a hobby. I tried giving plants away as a giveaway and it was just so much time consuming work (away from my real job, my kids and my garden), I just had to draw the line and not do it. Sorry! There are lots of great sellers out there on Etsy who have amazing, beautiful specimens you could get.
Very nice video! I just received three rooted starts & planted all three in separate pots! Now I’m wondering if I should unpot them & put them into one bigger pot?
Totally up to you! They don't need to be in separate pots, but will do fine that way too... I just wanted the look of a fuller plant.🌵
Thank you! I decided to leave them in separate pots since they were pretty big; however when I went to Lowe’s recently, they had a potbound night cactus which I got for half price and I brought it home & made at least 3 pots from the one pot plus had to trim leaves so they’re hardening off to make more plants! I watched your video again & have really enjoyed it! Where did you find your miniature tools?
If they are ultimatedly going into hanginf baskets it may be better to plant 3 in a pot to make it easier to get a ballanced basket. Also, crowding the roots a little makes them bloom sooner.
How long do you let the leave heal over? How deep do you plant?
I was gifted one from my mother in law and she said she had seen it bloom.
I have had it for 5y and never seen it bloom. It is looking big and straggly.
If you mentioned, some of the captions were not good. Deaf.
My epi was affected by the freeze. Should I cut it back.
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Thank you 💚
what do the cuttings look like when they get calloused over?
They will look dry... maybe a little bit shriveled and like a scab. You will want to make sure there is no moisture to the touch to prevent any rot getting to the plant.
How do you trim these plants? How to not cut leaves that might flower? I live in north so I have to bring in for winter.
Good question! I would make sure and only trim after blooming season has passed to ensure you're not clipping potential blooms... and only trim if it's getting leggy and out of control.
and clean your pruners with alcohol between each plant.
Hair like roots appear on the top end of the leaves, so should I plant upside down? One cutting I planted has branched like crazy! I used ordinary potting compost. Most of the leaves are around 2" long on my original plants.
Those are aerial roots! The plant uses them to climb/attach to trees or a trellis. If you want the plant to climb you can add a wood plank/pole or plant near a tree and it will use those roots to climb 😁
Mist the aerial roots with water and a very light fertilizer, like 1/4 dose recommended to garden plants.
I have a queen of the night I brought to tx from cally diing grest in house but I can't figure out why there seems to be a bunch of roots growing from a new large shoot
It sounds like aerial roots looking to climb? Maybe add a moss pole and see what happens?💚
I'll try that the original plant was out side in twined with a lemon tree It was big..
I got some cuttings 1.5 years ago and they’ve filled the 5 gallon pot and are pouring over. Now I just want them to bloom..
Amazing! I need to fins some good fertilizer for blooming myself, I think that's the key. And the time of year as well of course - depending on the variety it's usually late spring and mid-summer.
Limit nitrogen fetilizer as it encourages green growth but not flowers and fruit..
15:22 Madam,how much time will it take to bloom first time?
Totally depends on conditions and the time of year. Honestly it took about a year for me to get a bloom from this plant after I repotted it.
How much fertilizer should be put on it every two weeks? Also, making sure… you said that when they are cuttings and stuck in soil to root you don’t water at all for a month? Why is that just curious?
I don't water for a month to help prevent the cuttings from rot. They rot really easily in a moist substrate. I've actually found it best to keep them really dry as long as I can. As far as fertilizer, I would have to estimate, but I use liquid fertilizer that is diluted with water and would do just like a normal watering amount with that, so... maybe two cups of diluted fertilizer every couple of weeks.
You an try misting them daily and then slowly begin watering when there are new shoots present.
I just wanted to add a small correction….
The cactus WILL GROW even if you plant it upside down, it will grow new stems out of its veins, or new babies will start to form and grow out of the dirt. So, technically what happens is, the plant and leaves will grow outward finding the sunlight.
I plant almost all of my night blooming cactus cuttings upside down because here in Florida the weather is unpredictable, and it’ll rain all of the sudden, and end up soaking all of my plants. So if I plant them upside down, it avoids the cut area from soaking and turning into mush, and allowing that top cut to just further callous and dry, as the plant is rooting. It will root from any point of its body with or without medium.
***Sorry for the intrusion***
Interesting! I've never heard of this method, but glad I know it now! I know with my snakeplant propagations, they will only grow "right side up" so maybe that's where I got confused.
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