What to do to make the Christmas tree bloom

The Christmas cactus is a popular indoor plant. With proper care, it will grow for you for decades and will delight you with flowers every year at Christmas.

According to marthastewart, pruning your Christmas cactus encourages flowering, prevents disease, and allows you to share the plant with loved ones.

“Holiday cacti produce flowers at the tips of the pads. When you prune, you encourage it to make more branches, which means there can be more pads for it to produce flowers from,” says Justin Hancock, horticulturist at Costa Farms.

Another reason for pruning is to control the size of the plant. Because it can grow…