Both of you have beautiful plants, and photos. Mine don't really count, since I just went out and bought some in little 2" pots, then mashed them together for a picture. This one was given to me as a cutting by honeybeegirl_2007, way back in February. The fact that it set a bud on a 'two pad' cutting that was two months old, says more about the care it was given before I got it, than after. Sorry for the picture quality (and really neat background), but I just never got around to learning how to use the camera for close up shots. John

Yikes ... EC watering problems again. Watering holiday cati in general Bi weekly water while it's showing new growth. Reduced amounts and longer timing between watering when in bud.wer Amounts of water can vary depending on where it is ( inside, outside, temps, climate etc.. )EC It's temperamental in so many ways I don't like moving this plant from place to place at all I don't like to suggest moving EC to anyone, hmmm but if not in the right place it doesn't like to flower as good as it can in another area. Wrinkling leaves on an EC. In a way it's your lucky plant usually if over watered EC tend to just drop off (shedding) your right on the wait until it dries out a bit if EC cati gets to dry it also tends to shed it's leaves as well. EC Potting: Different soils for different folks in a sense. Mine, a ceramic pot with a built on exterior watering at bottom. I use a more costume mix of the basic 5-1-1 (RE: in different question). Soil I use small sized orchard bark 5 parts ( Repti bark more pricy but is also good) 1 part turface ( or all sport) 1 part perlite is good, better a more porous more stable pumice 1/2 part shredded leaf debris. Yes in a way the basic 5-1-1 would work rinse and shift or sift then rinse allow to damp dry before re-potting. Like many others I like my jungle cacti roots to have more air. Ohhh I mentioned a bottom water reservoir. For EC. Of all holiday cati I have for EC ONLY I don't habit top watering as it is now the soil mix media allows the reservoir if full of water to be fully absorbed into the pot in an hour or less.

My pony tail palm, but I don't have to baby that one like I do my Croton Mrs Iceton-very cool red/blackish leaves at the bottom...very hard to not have leaves fall! Love radermachera-each time grew really big and then became sooo infested with scale, I couldn't save them, no matter how often I wiped them down and sprayed! I might try again...I now have a systemic granular insect killer that worked really well when my spider plant became infected with scale.

The EC with more blooms open: Kalanchoe blossfeldiana plants are still blooming. Being removed from pots & put in ground a while ago hasn't bothered them a bit, aside from a little sunburn on the older leaves. Ornamental purslane (Portulaca umbraticola) that I took cuttings of last fall & stick in pots to save inside over winter, then put back in the ground as new cuttings about 6 weeks ago. First bloom a few days ago! Ledebouria kirkii (cousin to leopard squill, L. socialis) Snake plants (Sansevieria) that were put in ground for temporary summer vacation about 5-6 weeks ago have made a couple blooms.