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title: "Hello! I got an easter cactus a years ago, and while my mom did take…"
description: "Hello! I got an easter cactus a years ago, and while my mom did take care of it for a few years, it's now been in my care since I moved to a bigger place. The…"
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community: "The Cactus & Succulent Circle"
author: "Mick E"
published: "2025-03-19T22:01:39.687471Z"
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# Hello! I got an easter cactus a years ago, and while my mom did take…

_Posted by Mick E on 2025-03-19_

Hello!

I got an easter cactus a years ago, and while my mom did take care of it for a few years, it's now been in my care since I moved to a bigger place. The problem is, even the years in college when my mom took care of it and since I've moved out, it's never flowered once. I've head some pieces of advice (like allegedly having it in a closet which seems risky?) that we had tried but didn't work. I was wondering if there was more I could do?

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## 11 comments

### JW commented on 2025-03-20

Sun, lots of water, and pump-n-grow.

#### Mick E replied on 2025-03-20

thank u ! ill check out the pump \& grow

### HMWG commented on 2025-03-20

Ever since I put my Christmas cactus outside over summer it flowers

#### Mick E replied on 2025-03-20

interesting. i might try it since itll be getting warm !

### KJM commented on 2025-03-20

Short days and cool night temperatures (50 degrees) is what triggers the bloom cycle. 2 months before you wanted to bloom stop fertilizing it and give it equal hours of darkness and indirect light with the cool night temperatures. Day temperatures can be warm but don't put them by a heater.

### David commented on 2025-03-20

Have you thought about maybe putting it in a bigger pot I had one at one time I went one month without watering it and brought into bloom by doing so

#### Mick E replied on 2025-03-20

honeatly thats fair i cant remember the last time she was repotted

### Kades commented on 2025-03-20

KJM nailed it on the comment, these guys won’t bloom without the “season/condition change”

### KJM commented on 2025-03-20

You also might want to consider giving it the trim. This will keep the center full and generate side growths where it would bloom. I think they bloom on new growth.

### KJM commented on 2025-03-20

If you've never cut back Easter cactus, you cut it in the middle of the pad and trim equally around the plant

### Robert commented on 2026-03-16

Cool

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