ALICIA7B HI! After ALL these comments, and posts, that went WAY off the track, to what YOU posted, asked for, ...did you EVER find any of the OLD/ANTIQUE/ORIGINAL Christmas Cactus from anyone? I was sent THIS post, to look at.... I have just put up my own post, looking for cuttings of the plant myself. My original one, that was over 150yo!! The last of it JUST died, and it is weeks before X-mas now. Nice gift:( I was the one in the family to be entrusted to keep it alive, I am the gardener in the family. But after 3.5 decades in south Fla. after living in Conn. all its life, and mine, it died. I got some cuttings of the ORIGINAL cactus after mine started to rot and die slowly over a period of years, from some very nice people, like 5 years ago. But THOSE plants just gave out on me, after a super HOT summer, and Hurricane Irma coming through my city, it just got to stressed, I assume, and it finally died. Did YOU ever get any cuttings/stems from someone with a huge specimen...and maybe might be willing to part with a few more? IF you even see this reply to your post....I am hoping you do....maybe you can tell me who to ask. Thank you. ******* I see a picture of a HUGE pot of the X-Mas cactus, you got it from someone. You got A LOT of cuttings from someone!!! Wow! THAT is the one I am desperate to get. I can see a few other pics. But they are not the same thing. This is an old post, so the pictures are not showing up. I dont see how a cactus that is over 150yo,...mine was,...can be a 'hybrid'. It is the one that all the others came from! I cant read ALL these posts, but i read a few, and someone said it was a hybrid. All i know is that THIS is the one i would like to find. I hope YOU or someone sees this, and can help me out. THIS was my 150+ yo specimen. Maybe YOU can help me out? That one you have is huge, and now 6 years later, it must be much bigger...??? Care to share????

Again, thanks for the help. Since my CC are doing great, I'm leaving them alone. Well, I struct gold today. I went into my garage to clean out my storage room. While I was getting rid of some unneeded junk, I came upon an unopened ten pound bag of Aussie Gold. I forgot all about it because I started putting my orchids on mounts before I gave them away. The Aussie Gold is the fine type and it produced strong roots for my orchids when I used it. I went and repotted all of my Easter Cacti in the Aussie Gold. You guys were right about the root system. The roots on every plant were tight and compacted in the mix. I immediately got the old mix off of the roots and into Aussie Gold went the plants. The great thing about AG is that you can never over water. I'll keep you informed on how the plants responded to the AG in the coming weeks. Thanks again for all of your help.

Thanks , Fred ! I don't know the name of the S. truncata ( the Thanksgiving Cactus ). It was bought at a local supermarket in fall 2003, there was no label. It has been such a rewarding plant, I have potted it up every spring and fertilized in summer, and it has been "doing it's thing" ; growing and flowering. It is full of buds now. - Too many buds in fact ( I started a thread on that subject in "House Plants Forum" ) ! Since I got this red one, I have bought S. truncatas in different colors ( red & white, pink, pink & white, yellow, orange, white and purplered ). So this year I won't go near the nurseries ... ;-) These plants get big, you know ! - Can't have them taking over the house... :-)

Short days, cool nights and slightly pot bound will promote buds and flowers True and thanks for the colder temps to warmer temps info. By chance if your cacti should show buds around mid May to flower again dont move it from where it is during the possible May bud to end of flowering times. To confuse some of us even more we take notes that the sun light time would be increasing as temps are warming in May.