Christmas Cactus
May 16, 2018 16:44:35 #
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May 17, 2018 10:57:22 #
Very nice. I wish our Christmas cactus would give blooms in the upright position like that.
May 17, 2018 17:49:11 #
Wingpilot wrote:
Very nice. I wish our Christmas cactus would give blooms in the upright position like that.
It's probably a a young plant. As they get older the branches get heavy and they start to droop. We have several that were my grandmother's and they all droop too, but the ones we have started from clippings--the grand-shoots
-- most probably five to ten years old are still upright.We did have an unusual occurrence this winter with one of the older plants; it fully bloomed four times: just before Thanksgiving, between Christmas and New Years, in mid- February, and now is in bloom for Mother's Day weekend .
I remember these plants from my Grandmother's house (70+ years ago) and my mother's home, but don't recall any multiple full blooms; one of two blossoms maybe but not full blooming.May 17, 2018 19:29:34 #
JCam wrote:
It's probably a a young plant. As they get older t... (show quote)
Now that you mention it, ours did the same thing. Seemed strange. But we enjoyed the blooms.
May 17, 2018 19:50:52 #
May 18, 2018 11:18:28 #
Wingpilot wrote:
Now that you mention it, ours did the same thing. Seemed strange. But we enjoyed the blooms.
Wingpilot, I don't have any good explanation either, and when I first saw your reply, I thought perhaps we were in the same general area, but we are about 2000+ miles apart.
The prolific cactus is in a window at the back of the house, sheltered from the road lights, and we back up to a conservation area so it gets full fall-winter darkness; plants at the other parts of the house get more light, and the older two may have a second blooming, but not four.
I am in no way a horticulturist, so my thought is just to appreciate it when the surprise occurs and don't mess around with a plant that is older than I am.
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