What to do with cacti/succulents during winter?

Adiboo

Hi all,

We have our cacti and succulents including a few cacti seedlings and a few Christmas Cactus rooting cuttings in the front porch and it's starting to get quite cold in there now. Just wondering where it would be best to put these over the winter?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Put them in a window indoors in a heated Room. Mine do very well like that.

Tree

Some of them will do grand in the front porch once they don't get frost or they're dry enough that they don't get mould. A lot of cacti come from places that are dry but cold, so they won't do too badly. Many do grand outdoors once there's not a protracted cold snap. That said, it depends on the cactus/succulent in question as to how cold hardy it is. I've had succulents in garden quarantine over winter (some for a number of years) and they just grew a bit slower, still flowered etc.

Marhay70

Christmas cactus prefer a cool light location like a north facing window but if they are in bud, leave them where they are, moving them now will result in bud drop.

blackbox

Last winter I had a cactus that I kind of wanted to get rid of and I left it outside (in a fairly sheltered position).

It survived the winter and this summer it flowered for the first time ever.

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