)it's just as big as an orange, but it keep growing new offsets around its base while i'm desperate for some flowers. So if anyone knows how to make it grow flowers, please help me!help with my rebutia
help with my rebutia
well,i'm new here. i've started growing cactus about 2 years ago. My cactus is Rebutia (i think so )it's just as big as an orange, but it keep growing new offsets around its base while i'm desperate for some flowers. So if anyone knows how to make it grow flowers, please help me!
)it's just as big as an orange, but it keep growing new offsets around its base while i'm desperate for some flowers. So if anyone knows how to make it grow flowers, please help me!
first of all .....welcome to cactiguide 
Location: Vietnam
wow where to start.....i have no idea about the climate over there, flowering is a lot to do with the winter rest period
just enough warmth to keep the frost off and little or no water during winter months should do it, if you could let us know about winter temps there and where you keep it (indoors / outside /greenhouse / ect) it might help.
Location: Vietnam
wow where to start.....i have no idea about the climate over there, flowering is a lot to do with the winter rest period
just enough warmth to keep the frost off and little or no water during winter months should do it, if you could let us know about winter temps there and where you keep it (indoors / outside /greenhouse / ect) it might help.
incurable cactoholic
growing rebutia's with a mix of others.
growing rebutia's with a mix of others.
Might be hard to flower this species without a winter.-
Bill in SC
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Welcome Vivian! So far that is some good advice on triggering a bloom. Can you post a picture of your plant?
Anyway, you should also be able to do especially well with the different Epi-cacti. They have some of the largest blooms of all the cacti.
Anyway, you should also be able to do especially well with the different Epi-cacti. They have some of the largest blooms of all the cacti.
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
My guess is that Bill is right. I've seen how Ron at RealRebutias grows his beautiful crop. They don't even need light in the winter. I really think you could stick it in the refrigerator and forget about it. The only potential problem is the humidity level. And stale air--but if you opened your fridge often enough, maybe it would be OK. I don't know how you feel about having a prickly cactus plant next to your milk and cabbage!
You'll have to wind down on the watering first, though.
Rebutias in particular really seem to require that cold rest to bloom.
You should post a picture first, though, so we can be sure it's a rebutia.
You'll have to wind down on the watering first, though.
Rebutias in particular really seem to require that cold rest to bloom.
You should post a picture first, though, so we can be sure it's a rebutia.