HI, I know this is a old listing but I was wondering if you would have any Christmas, easter, or thanksgiving cactus left? I would be more then happy to even receive a few pieces only of the plants and would love to pay you something including the shipping for any. Thank you, and please message me at meadowridge@ granitewave.com

Hello again, you said you used a succulent soil mix...then mention the Palm and Citrus mix...but neither of those are succulents you do realise?! I'm not certain if that would harm the plant in any way as I'm no expert on these matters, but others who may chime in definitely are. I've just grown CC's and EC's for some time. I think the easiest way to sort out which is which is generally all cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are cacti...think this is correct! So yes, CC's and EC's are still a type of cacti, and epiphytic ones like I said that grow on trees etc. On seeing your pic it does look like an EC to me as they often bloom a scarlet orange colour like your bud and as stated above, once that opens you will tell for sure. Here is one of my EC's in bloom recently, it's my new pink one... and here's my CC, the one with the bud, it's not visible but it's there! You can see the 'leaves' are very different to each other, the flowers are even more different too. I'm not convinced there are 2 separate plants of different kinds in the pot, but that's just my thoughts and I may well be wrong, lol! Has it got 2 individulal trunks can you tell? A north facing window may not be ideal, they do like sun, but not intense direct sun. Try a search on here and the CC and EC threads will help you further I'm sure or even google them. Gill UK.

'Leekle' you are right. I never put them together this way, just happened. We recently moved here and it was just a convenient spot. Sort of forgot them and now they are too difficult to move. The branches break off easily when full of buds. Next year... Judy, they are in plastic pots. They are potted in a mix of MG potting soil and Cactus/Palm soil. 'Alys' I'm not sure I can agree about the light. I think it is temps. Mine have grown both outside and inside, exposed to bright lights. They have always bloomed reliably. What I noticed, when I lived in NY, if I left them outside until a light frost I got the best blooming. Frost didn't seem to hurt them but increased the blooms. I always left them out until October. Changing their environment cause bud drop, not light. Any change, while in full bud can cause them to fall off. This is a pic of them in front of a condo we rented this past summer. They are on the bottom shelf of the stand. You can see the plastic pots, what you can't see are the flood lights which went on every evening and stayed lit until morning. This was a walkway for the entire floor of the condo building. It was the only place I could put my plants. These are the same plants in bloom now. Jane

So you want a full grown plant to exchange with seedlings? That kind of makes no sense... I get that it rare, but still