Hello, Lady of Darkmoor, I would love to have a cutting from your night blooming cereus. I have Saguaros, Christmas cactus cuttings, passion flower, hybiscus, plumeria (pink & yellow), aloe plants, cholla cactus, rabbit ear cactus and lots more if you give me an idea what you are looking for.

Hi all; I inherited my mother's night-blooming cereus, which was my grandmother's before that. It's bloomed the last 2 years, but no buds yet this year. However, the horrendous winter, lingering cold and late spring here in the NE meant that it didn't come out site until mode June or later. Still checking every day. Sigh. It does have some new leaves, which appear as tiny red leaves growing off the edge of an existing leaf - which is similar to the way it buds, but so far they all look like tiny red leaves wit yellow tips. I've been lightly feeding it with a very dilute solution of a water-sol fertilizer, 10-30-20 (dilute as those numbers seemed high.) Should I bump up the fertilizer? Or leave it alone? So, two questions: 1) Looks very healthy (besides the non-budding) but It does has some old leaves which have turned yellow or weirdly pink. Wondering if its ok ago trim them off..? And - 1) Is possible that the small new red leaves, growing from the margin of a green leaf, are the beginning of a bud? TIA. I do love this gangly plant, both for reminding me of my grandma's sunporch, and for its weird beauty.

1. the leaves on a cereus are supposed to dangle over the pot... thats why they are mostly grown in hanging pots.... the new leaves will... over time... fatten up and stiffen up.... they will be ok... 2. the new buds from cuttings will come from the aeroles... or notches in the older leaves... this is perfectly normal... 3. i do not know what those are... but if they do not look like the other new leaves.. and the way i see them.. they are orange tint.... they could be buds... congratulations is they are... congratulation if they aint... just for getting this wonderful plant.... i hope i helped you out... God bless you.. and happy growing

Peteray, I just read somewhere that your plant is a Dragonfruit plant. Geeky Gardener - let me know what you found out about the buds dropping off. I had the same problem. I currently have a Night Blooming Cereus with buds. 3 weeks ago, I had about 11 buds. Concerned about the sun burning my plant, I moved it to another spot - partial shade. The large buds are doing fine, but the 4 of my little ones fell off. I was so upset about this. I moved it back to it's old spot. I also gets deer in my yard and I wondered if they nudged it???